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Title Keeping the peace [electronic resource] : conflict resolution and peaceful societies around the world / edited by Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description xv, 231 p. : ill.
Series War and society ; v. 8
War and society (Routledge (Firm)) ; v. 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-218) and index.
Contents The concept of peaceful societies / Graham Kemp -- A positive concept of peace / Ximena Davies-Vengoechea -- Contentious but not violent : the Hopi of Northern Arizona / Alice Schlegel -- Restraint and ritual apology : the Rotumans of the South Pacific / Alan Howard -- Respect for all : the Paliyans of South India / Peter M. Gardner -- Multiple paths to peace : the "La Paz" Zapotec of Mexico / Douglas P. Fry -- Resolving conflict within the law : the Mardu aborigines of Australia / Robert Tonkinson -- Putting a stone in the middle : the nubians of Northern Africa / Robert Fernea -- Keeping the peace in an island world : the Sama Dilaut of Southeast Asia / Clifford Sather -- A model of peacefulness : rethinking peace and conflict in Norway / Kristin Dobinson -- Cautious, alert, polite, and elusive : the Semai of Central Peninsular Malaysia / Robert Knox Dentan -- Conclusions : learning from peaceful societies / Douglas P. Fry.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Peace -- Social aspects.
Conflict management -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kemp, Graham, 1954-
Fry, Douglas P., 1953-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415947618 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0415947626 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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