Beyond global crisis
Subtitle: remedies and road maps by Daisaku Ikeda and his contemporaries
By: Terrence Edward Paupp ; with a foreword by Olivier Urbain
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412846165
Subjects: Human security; Peace; Reform; International cooperation; Philosophy; Conflict management; Political and social views; Social aspects; United Nations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ikeda's vision for realizing a global civilization:; title: The power of inner transformation and dialogue; title: The global crisis through the lens of Ikeda and his contemporaries; title: Where we are now, and what is required to achieve a peaceful global civilization; title: Case study: the inner transformation of JFK and the end of the Cold War; title: The power of self-transformation as the beginning of internal and external liberation: the nexus of Buddhism, liberation theology, and law; title: Dialogue and dialogical mechanisms: creating a global framework for deliberative democracy, human rights and cultural pluralism; title: The converging theoretical and empirical elements of global civilization: international relations, inclusive/humane governance and cosmopolitan democracy; title: Emerging pillars of a peaceful global civilization: nuclear disarmament, United Nations reform and the International Criminal Court; title: The challenge of climate change: searching for human solidarity in a divided world; title: Conclusion: contextualizing Ikeda in the struggle to restructure international politics.