Building Peace: Overcoming Violence in Communities - Softcover

Holsopple, Mary Yoder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2825414263 ISBN 13: 9782825414262

Publisher: World Council of Churches, 2004

Synopsis

In Building Peace, three North American professional women with wide international experience offer practical, step-by-step guidance for overcoming violence and building a culture of peace. Using paradigms that have proved successful in the disciplines of public health and community development, they address the problem of violence as an epidemic that is threatening our families' lives and health. Moving beyond theory and demographic analysis, the authors offer a leadership manual for assisting communities as they envision and begin to realize a culture of peace. Drawing on their ongoing work in the United States, they provide readers with useful models of positive peace-building in our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Yoder Holsopple spent many years working with victims of war and poverty in Africa, and is now promoting a culture of peace in her work as an elementary school social worker and mother. Ruth E. Krall has been involved for many years in peace and justice-building as a clinician, theologian and educator with primary interest in healing the wounds of violence, particularly for victims of domestic and sexual violence. Sharon Weaver Pittman has dedicated her life to promoting peace and community-building activities throughout the world. Most recently she has worked in Belize, Iraq and Guinea.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Council of Churches
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 2825414263
• ISBN 13: 9782825414262
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120