Beyond Global Crisis: Remedies and Road Maps by Daisaku Ikeda and His Contemporaries

by Terrence Edward Paupp (Editor)

Overview

In this volume, Terrence Paupp critically describes the various dimensions of today's global crisis. Among other things, this volume analyzes nuclear weapons proliferation climate change, and international lawlessness in the form of wars of aggression. Paupp argues that much human conflict and environmental degradation is the direct consequence of poverty and inequality. Until these issues are addressed, many of the world's problems will remain.

Paupp asserts that around the world, peoples and nations are becoming more open to a strategy and culture of peace that evolves through discovering a commonality of interests, the value of mutual cooperation, and the desirability of forging consensus. By using various road maps and remedies supplied by noted Japanese peace activist Daisaku Ikeda and his contemporaries, viable solutions will emerge.

In this new endeavor, equipped with some of the proposed solutions and strategies that this book provides, humanity will collectively become engaged in remaking the character of global governance in order to build a global culture of peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412846165
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	04/15/2012
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Terrence Edward Paupp

Table of Contents

Foreword Olivier Urbain ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xix

Part I Ikeda's Vision for Realizing a Global Civilization: The Power of Inner Transformation and Dialogue

1 The Global Crisis through the Lens of Ikeda and His Contemporaries 2

2 Where We Are Now-and What Is Required to Achieve a Peaceful Global Civilization 37

Part II From Individual to Global Transformation: Multiple Pathways

3 Case Study-The Inner Transformation of JFK and the End of the Cold War 70

4 The Power of Self-Transformation as the Beginning of Internal and External Liberation: The Nexus of Buddhism, Liberation Theology, and Law 113

5 Dialogue and Dialogic Mechanisms: Creating a Global Framework for Deliberative Democracy, Human Rights, and Cultural Pluralism 160

Part III Visualizing a Global Civilization of Harmony and Interdependence in Concrete Terms

6 The Converging Theoretical and Empirical Elements of Global Civilization: International Relations, Inclusive/Humane Governance, and Cosmopolitan Democracy 204

7 Emerging Pillars of a Peaceful Global Civilization: Nuclear Disarmament, United Nations Reform, and the International Criminal Court 256

8 The Challenge of Climate Change: Searching for Human Solidarity in a Divided World 319

9 Conclusion: Contextualizing Ikeda in the Struggle to Restructure International Politics 349

Afterword Brian J. Foley 379

Appendix Preamble of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 383

Bibliography 385

Index 417

Editorial Reviews

[P]rovides college-level students of international politics a fine critical survey of the modern global crisis's [sic] facing mankind, from nuclear weapons proliferation and climate change to international aggression.” —California Bookwatch “Beyond Global Crisis is an important work not only for students, scholars, and academics, but for all those who should be interested in examining global issues from an East-West, as well as from a North-South perspective. Paupp addresses the issues of nuclear abolition, climate change, the role of the International Criminal Court, the need for a thorough reform of the United Nations, and the importance of human rights to peace and development. . . . Paupp has produced a book that is hugely able to bridge the divides between East and West of the Global North and the Global South. In so doing, he has performed the important task of giving voice to the voiceless.” Larry Birns, Director of COHA - Council on Hemispheric Affairs

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