The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace ─ Essays on Ecology, Nature, Nonviolence, and Peace

Members of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace present 13 essays on aspects of peace and the environment. Among the topics are violence and nonviolence in the environmental movement, negative impacts of militarism on the environment, a phenomenological inquiry into the nature of human dwelling, whether there is an essential relation between moral extensionism and nonviolence, slow violence and the eschatological crisis in agriculture, resolving socio-political conflict in Africa, and the chief world systems of Sequoyah and Seattle. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Andrew Fiala, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy at Fresno State University and President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. Publications includePractical Pacifism (2004), The Just War Myth (2008), Public War, Private Conscience (2010), andAgainst Religion, Wars, and States (2013).