Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State University, USA. A former president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, his publications include The Just War Myth (2008), Public War, Private Conscience (2010), The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (editor, 2015), Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, 9th edition (with Barbara MacKinnon, 2017), and Transformative Pacifism (forthcoming).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Andrew Fiala

Part I: Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations

1. A History of the Idea of Pacifism and Nonviolence: Ancient to Modern






Duane L. Cady




2. Nonviolence and Pacifism in the Long Nineteenth Century




Michael Allan Fox




3. Pacifism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond






Andrew Fiala




4. Christian Pacifism




Daniel A. Dombrowski




5. Peace and Nonviolence in Islam






Ramin Jahanbegloo




6. Philosophy of Nonviolence in Africa




Gail M. Presbey




7. Nonviolence in the Dharma Traditions: Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism






Veena R. Howard




8. The Gandhi-King Tradition and Satyagraha






Barry L. Gan





Part II: Conceptual and Moral Considerations






9. Pacifism and the Concept of Morality




Robert L. Holmes




10. Peace: Negative and Positive






David Boersema




11. The Pacifist Critique of the Just War Tradition






Cheyney Ryan




12. Contingent Pacifism






Paul Morrow




13. Humanitarian Intervention and the Problem of Genocide and Atrocity




Jennifer Kling




14. Virtue Ethics and Nonviolence






David K. Chan




15. Personal Pacifism and Conscientious Objection






Eric Reitan




16. Pacifism: Does it Make Moral Sense?




Jan Narveson




17. Pacifism as Pathology






José-Antonio Orosco





Part III: Social and Political Considerations






18. The Triumph of the Liberal Democratic Peace and the Dangers of Its Success




Fuat Gursozlu




19. Human Rights and International Law




Robert Paul Churchill




20. Hospitality, Identity, and Cosmopolitanism: Antidotes to the Violence of Otherness






Eddy M. Souffrant




21. Warism and the Dominant Worldview






Duane L. Cady




22. The Military-Industrial Complex




William Gay




23. Feminism and Nonviolent Activism




Danielle Poe




24. Queer Oppression and Pacifism






Blake Hereth





Part IV: Applications






25. Care Theory, Peacemaking, and Education






Nel Noddings




26. Becoming Nonviolent: Sociobiological, Neurophysiological, and Spiritual Perspectives