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Peace by Design

Author : Dawn Brancati
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615226
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Peace by Design written by Dawn Brancati and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others? This question constitutes the central focus of Peace by Design. Brancati argues that the ability of decentralization to reduce intrastate conflict hinges on the electoral strength of regional parties. According to Brancati, regional parties tend to promote intrastate conflict by creating regional identities, advocating legislation harmful to other regions and regional minorities, and mobilizing groups to engage in conflict or supporting extremist organizations that do. Brancati also highlights a number of conditions under which regional parties are more likely to promote conflict, such as democratic transitions. Brancati further argues that decentralization increases the strength of regional parties depending on particular features of decentralization (i.e., the proportion of legislative seats a region possesses, the number of regional legislatures in a country, the upper house election procedures, the sequencing of national and regional elections). These features of decentralization vary across countries and are fundamental to explaining why decentralization is not effective in reducing conflict in all countries. Brancati's ultimate conclusion is that decentralization can be effectively designed to promote peace, as long as it is designed to encourage statewide parties to incorporate regional parties into their agendas and to limit the strength of regional parties. The author provides compelling evidence for her argument through three detailed cases studies (e.g., Czechoslovakia, Spain, and India) and a rigorous quantitative analysis in which she introduces a new dataset on constituency-level elections that will prove an invaluable resource for many future studies.

Peace by Design

Author : Mardelle McCuskey Shepley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040123910
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Peace by Design written by Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an era in which designers will make an essential and critical contribution to the health and success of humanity. Design can promote healing in healthcare environments, contribute to good mental health, reduce gun violence, and positively impact health and racial equity, all of which contribute to providing a more peaceful world. The primary focus of this book is to inspire young designers, academics, and practitioners to achieve their maximum societal contribution. It also supports experienced designers seeking reaffirmation of their social goals. To provide a foundation, the first chapter discusses the definition of design and design thinking and evidence regarding the direct and indirect contributions of design to peace. The subsequent chapters address peace endeavors at six scales of the physical environment: sustainable and equitable design, landscape architecture, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and graphic design. Additionally, nine short cameos are provided by contributors from various disciplines, who provide their favorite examples of “peace projects.” Peace can be manifested at multiple levels: world-wide, neighborhood and community, familial, or individual, and the various authors discuss portions from this spectrum. They broadly endorse disciplinary entanglements as a means of addressing societal and sustainability challenges and celebrate the impact of collaboration. This book is essential reading for students and practitioners representing all fields of design, including graphic design, industrial design, interior design, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

Designing Peace

Author : Cynthia Smith
Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
ISBN 13 : 9781942303329
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Designing Peace written by Cynthia Smith and published by Cooper Hewitt. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace. Through fully illustrated essays, interviews, critical maps, and over forty design projects spanning the globe this book examines the numerous ways designers engage with individuals, communities, and organizations to create a more sustainable peace-from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures, to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation. This publication aims to expand the discourse on what is possible if society were to design for peace.

A Workshop for Peace

Author : George A. Dudley
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Workshop for Peace written by George A. Dudley and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book he unfolds the first eyewitness account of the creation of a landmark building that was functionally and symbolically important in its time, marking the emergence of modern architecture as the dominant language of postwar institutions and cities.

The Big Book for Peace

Author : Lloyd Alexander
Publisher : Dutton Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780590453943
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book for Peace written by Lloyd Alexander and published by Dutton Children's Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dillons, and Maurice Sendak.

Nine Designs for Inner Peace

Author : Sarah Tomlinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556111
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Nine Designs for Inner Peace written by Sarah Tomlinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to creating planetary yantras to access their healing and centering benefits • Provides easy-to-follow instructions to create the yantras • Serves as an introduction to active meditation, which focuses the mind while the body is engaged in a meditative activity The tantric art of drawing or painting the nine designs known as yantras is an ancient practice of active meditation that releases positive healing and centering effects. Each of the nine designs corresponds to one of the nine qualities of body and mind essential to well-being: radiance, nourishment, passion, intellect, expansion, bliss, organization, uniqueness, and spirituality. From the basic elements of the square, the circle, and the triangle, dynamic visual meditations unfold as the practitioner works clockwise from the outer elements inward toward the central point of stillness, or bindu, the source of happiness within. An accompanying mantra is recited while preparing each yantra to fully engage the senses in the meditative process. Creating the design that “speaks” most to the practitioner enables its unique healing quality to be transmitted. For example, working on the yantra named “Radiance” cultivates optimism and the self-confidence to succeed in one’s endeavors, while “radiating,” or imparting, one’s inner light to others. This workbook provides an important resource for active meditation, a practice revered for its effectiveness in revealing the spiritual underpinnings of everyday life. The active participation of the body in meditation while creating the nine planetary yantras raises to the level of spiritual ritual the practitioner’s intention toward wakefulness and gives access to profound states of healing integration.

Chance and Design

Author : Alan Hodgkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456036
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Chance and Design written by Alan Hodgkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Hodgkin believes that - contrary to popular conviction - chance plays quite as large a role as design in scientific discovery. This engaging autobiography charts the balance of the two in his own life. Beginning starts with an account of his childhood in an extended Quaker family. Not a great success at school, he nevertheless won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, and he writes informatively of the climate of university opinion in the thirties when he was an undergraduate and came to abandon the pacifist ideals of his upbringing. A chance observation on frog nerve led to a Trinity Fellowship and a year at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (where he met his future wife), to the Nobel Prize in 1963, and ultimately to the Presidency of the Royal Society. His experiments on nerve conduction seemed almost at the point of success when everything had to be abandoned on the outbreak of war in 1939, and for six years Hodgkin worked on the concept and design of airborne radar, described in the central section of the book as Flight Trials and Tribulations. The account of his return to civilian life and the resumption of experimentation includes two chapters of solid detail of Starting Again - for this is a book for any reader interested in the origin and development of a dedicated scientist.

Signs for Peace

Author : Ruedi Baur
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783037782439
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Signs for Peace written by Ruedi Baur and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one visualize peace? Are there signs, symbols, and images that present a positive image of peace as opposed to receiving their meanings in opposition to war? Over several years of research, the Design2context Institute has intensively examined the representation and representability of peace and has compiled a comprehensive collection of images. In order to include a number of historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the archival aspect is supplemented by workshops in crisis regions. The encyclopedia--which, as new sociopolitical situations continue to arise and call for new pictures, must inevitably remain incomplete--provides a broad overview of the iconography of peace, and is also intended to assist in gaining an understanding of the concept. This book represents a significant contribution to future discussions on the need and desire for peace in political and social life.

52 Weeks of Peace

Author : Patricia Saxton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934860090
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book 52 Weeks of Peace written by Patricia Saxton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peace is Everyone's Business

Author : Lowell Ewert
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1648025986
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Peace is Everyone's Business written by Lowell Ewert and published by IAP. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of this book is very simple. While acknowledging that much progress has been made since the end of World War II to improve life conditions for billions of people and reduce the likelihood of war, current global challenges threaten to undermine, undo, or even reverse much of the progress made. Growing political and social polarization, and the resultant increasing fear of each other, is on a trajectory that could cause unprecedented harm. The book illustrates how everyone can have an impact on peace and that many already do so in both constructive and negative ways, illustrated by many examples. The book offers an expansive view of peace, which includes promoting human rights, identifying and resolving situations of slow violence, working to promote fair and sustainable economic development, identifying and resolving injustices, and establishing institutions and practices for resolving conflicts by communicative means. The book especially focuses on the role universities can and should play in promoting peace. Universities, which have played a pivotal role in creating a more humane and just world through their research, teaching and scholarship, now face the challenge of thoughtfully examining how each discipline and vocation and the university as a whole can contribute to fostering peace. In general, universities help to prepare students actively to work for peace by cultivating their capacities at reasoning and reflecting, developing their skills in communicating and research, and fostering among them an active awareness of their responsibilities as citizens of the world. While not every discipline or vocation shares the same level of responsibility to advance peace, all have the potential to do so as they intentionally and thoughtfully look for avenues to do so.

Designing Destiny

Author : Kamlesh D. Patel
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 140195930X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Designing Destiny written by Kamlesh D. Patel and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does destiny mean in the course of our lives? What is fixed and what can we change? International best-selling author and spiritual guide Kamlesh D. Patel explains how to use the spiritual practices of Heartfulness to expand your consciousness, evolve your mind, find true happiness, and live your purpose. We create our destiny, step-by-step, through the journey of life. Every choice leads us in a certain direction-either toward or away from our life's purpose. We can learn to become purposeful architects of our fate with the practices and lifestyle changes described by Kamlesh D. Patel, founder of the Heartfulness Institute and fourth spiritual guide of this global movement. In Designing Destiny, you will discover: o A practical approach to the fundamental principles of destiny o The four core practices of Heartfulness—relaxation, meditation, cleaning, and prayer—that will expand your consciousness from mundane to divine o The lifestyle changes that lead to true happiness o How to transform your relationships and raise the vibration of our communities o How to progress through the levels of evolution through spiritual practice Heartfulness offers a simple, scientific approach to expand our consciousness, realize our full human potential, and live a purposeful life. As our lifestyle evolves, our ability to design our own destiny-and that of the world-becomes natural and effortless.

What is Peace?

Author : Wallace Edwards
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443148431
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book What is Peace? written by Wallace Edwards and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2016 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, thought-provoking look at finding peace in children's lives. Peace is a familiar word, its meaning both simple and complex. Here, Wallace Edwards explores peace and invites young readers to think about what that means to them. Through a series of linked questions combined with Edwards's singular art, the concept of peace is picked up, shaken, turned all around, and carefully examined from every angle. Children experience stress, even violence, at home and at school and bear witness to news stories and family histories. There are many books on war for children; far fewer that examine peace. What Is Peace? engages readers to think about peace in their day-to-day lives, and around the world.

Peace

Author : Joshua C. Chen
Publisher : Cda Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974658209
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Peace written by Joshua C. Chen and published by Cda Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Art. Design. This collection, developed by the creative team at Chen Design Associates, proposes 100 practical suggestions for realizing peace based on Dr. Krieger's list, 100 Ideas for a More Peaceful World. The juxtaposition of text with 200 pages of full-color illustrations and photographic imagery creates a visually rich, conceptually layered volume that will challenge readers to rethink previous perceptions and reexamine their roles as members of an extended community. Both simple and complex, PEACE: 100 IDEAS provides manageable solutions that engender hope, illuminate potential, and aspire to lay the groundwork, one idea at a time, for a reconciled world.

War on Peace

Author : Ronan Farrow
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393356906
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book War on Peace written by Ronan Farrow and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America’s place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bleeding out after deep budget cuts; the diplomats who make America’s deals and protect its citizens around the world are walking out in droves. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later. In an astonishing journey from the corridors of power in Washington, DC, to some of the most remote and dangerous places on earth—Afghanistan, Somalia, and North Korea among them—acclaimed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow illuminates one of the most consequential and poorly understood changes in American history. His firsthand experience as a former State Department official affords a personal look at some of the last standard bearers of traditional statecraft, including Richard Holbrooke, who made peace in Bosnia and died while trying to do so in Afghanistan. Drawing on recently unearthed documents, and richly informed by rare interviews with whistle-blowers, a warlord, and policymakers—including every living former secretary of state from Henry Kissinger to Hillary Clinton to Rex Tillerson—and now updated with revealing firsthand accounts from inside Donald Trump’s confrontations with diplomats during his impeachment and candid testimonials from officials in Joe Biden’s inner circle, War on Peace makes a powerful case for an endangered profession. Diplomacy, Farrow argues, has declined after decades of political cowardice, shortsightedness, and outright malice—but it may just offer America a way out of a world at war.

Peace and Love Coloring Book

Author : Thaneeya McArdle
Publisher : Design Originals
ISBN 13 : 9781574219630
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Peace and Love Coloring Book written by Thaneeya McArdle and published by Design Originals. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring out your inner artist with 30 vibrantly detailed art activities in this whimsical coloring book dedicated to peace, love, and all things groovy!

Guide to Mindful Lettering

Author : Lisa Funk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998130019
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Mindful Lettering written by Lisa Funk and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peace from Broken Pieces

Author : Iyanla Vanzant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848504882
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Peace from Broken Pieces written by Iyanla Vanzant and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part metaphorical teaching story, part wrenching personal chronicle, this phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes tale is about men and money, love and work, mothers and daughters, and life and death. Learn how to put your personal puzzle together, and dare to claim the peace that you truly deserve.