...John Watkins This article examines the declining prestige and utility of one of the mainstays of pre-Enlightenment peacemaking: treaties uniting once belligerent dynasties through marriage. By the late Middle Ages, interdynastic marriages had become such a common feature of the diplomatic landscape...

...Yvonne Friedman Crusaders and Muslims each applied to their conflict in the Latin East a doctrine of holy war. Although so ideological a stance toward each other would seem to preclude peacemaking efforts, some 120 treaties were signed between parties to the conflict during the two-century Latin...

...Johan M. G. van der Dennen This monograph-length contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” reviews and assesses the state of ethnographic and political scholarship concerning how nonstate, tribal societies deal with peacemaking and peacekeeping. A central argument...

... concentrated on ethnography, the second focuses on the peacemaking repertoire of the Greco-Latin tradition, whose basis is psychological. That tradition is characterized by its refusal of wishful thinking about human nature and, in particular, by its doubt about claims that human drives other than thumos...

...Jeffrey M. Perl This essay review is focused on Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart's book Peace-Making and the Imagination: Papua New Guinea Perspectives but also discusses in some detail other ethnographic and historical works. The reviewer finds that, in every case of peacemaking in Papua New...

... associates fuzzy studies, “common knowledge,” and peacemaking—at length. FUZZY STUDIES A Symposium on the Consequence of Blur Part 1 Jeffrey M. Perl, Natalie Zemon Davis, Barry Allen Introduction: “Abominable Clearness” “If you had never gone into those accursed calculations, and brought out...

... traditional hunter-gatherer societies, with respect to peacemaking and peace-keeping he finds traditional societies distinctly inferior, and the arguments by which he reaches this conclusion are tautological and also beg the question. This prefatory essay explains that “Peace by Other Means” will analyze...

... of the modern peacemaking apparatus. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 enmity indigenous knowledge cooperation identity transborder ethics peace conflict resolution PEACE BY OTHER MEANS Symposium on the Role of Ethnography and the Humanities...

... to face to express the general will, has never had the same impact in the anthropological imagination as that of the “noble savage.” Thematically, these case studies raise the question of how peace is made and suggest that, while peacemaking demands “magic,” the invocation of extrahuman powers, the social...

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... not to the eighty or so theologians and practical peacemakers assembled but directly to the Third Person of the Trinity: We confess that for centuries our church, people of God, has betrayed [the] central message of the gospel many times and participated in wars. . . . Holy Spirit, as we meet as peacemakers, we...

... of Monmouth Symposium: Peace by Other Means, Part 6 MARRIAGE, PEACE, AND ENMITY IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY Lindsay Diggelmann To claim that marriages at the upper levels of premodern societies were arranged for purposes of diplomacy, peacemaking, and economic...

...Bruno Latour Duke University Press 2004 Symposium: Talking Peace with Gods, Part 1 WHOSE COSMOS, WHICH COSMOPOLITICS? Comments on the Peace Terms of Ulrich Beck Bruno Latour Blessed are the peacemakers. It is always...

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... is Rowan Williams Rowan doi 10.1215/0961754X-3323549 Xavier Caco Woudhuysen R. H. Peacemaking Theology Peacemaking...

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... of the Other”—he fi nds me guilty of a truly remarkable piece of superfi ciality: A historical anecdote, retold in a major paper by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, may illustrate why Beck’s suggested approach to peacemaking is not completely up to the task. The main example that Beck gives...

... of religious leaders who maintain that everyone can retain their beliefs full-bloodedly without risking internecine clashes is long over- due for exposure. When a lion approaches, we do not take it for a peacemaker...

... in the arts; • develop strategies of peacemaking in explosively multicultural contexts; and • redefine terms, such as true, real, and just, that obstruct cross-cultural understanding and may serve—by purporting to objectify the claims of adversaries—to intensify the bloodiest and least...

... strategies of peacemaking in explosively multicultural contexts; and • redefine terms, such as true, real, and just, that obstruct cross-cultural understanding and may serve—by purporting to objectify the claims of adversaries—to intensify the bloodiest and least productive conflicts. —G...