Putting Peace into Practice

NANCY NYQUIST POTTER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. She is an executive board member of International Philosophers for Peace and co-organized the World Peace Meet in Calcutta, India, in 1999. She teaches courses on the nature of violence, philosophies of peace, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of mental illness. She is also a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry and is interested in intersections between mental health, culture, and violence. She is the author of How Can I Be Trusted? A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness, a book that examines relationships between trust and power.

• Joseph C. KUNKEL : Editorial ForewordNancy NYQUIST POTTER: PrefacePART ONE Communication and the Construction of WorldviewsIntroductionOne William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on PeaceTwo Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear StrategyThree Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our TimesPART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in PracticeIntroductionFour Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison?Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and CommunityPART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global DomainIntroductionSix Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan WorldSeven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is “Humanitarian Intervention” an Oxymoron?Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on IraqPART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global DomainIntroductionNine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and DehostilizationTen Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International RelationsBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex