Paul van Tongeren Livres

"The European Platform for Conflict Prevention convened 300 representatives from governments, research institutions, and nongovernmental organizations from more than 50 countries for the Towards Better Peacebuilding Practice international conference in October 2001. This book presents the results of that conference in the form of in-depth articles, case studies, best practice inventories, and extensive documentation. Issues of peace studies, conflict prevention, refugee programs, civil society building, and political conflicts are discussed to offer reflections and practical strategies for increasing peacebuilding efforts in the future."

This book takes up-to-date cutting-edge scientific research and demonstrates how this undervalued trait has the power to change the way we live, think and act.

Presenting surveys of the violent conflicts in Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, the contributors offer a combination of background information, detailed descriptions of ongoing activities, and assessments of future prospects for conflict resolution and peacebuilding. A major focus of their work is the efforts of regional organizations and NGOs to make civil society part of any peace process, and they thoroughly cover the activities of grassroots groups. A directory of more than 400 organizations working in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the region is also included.

In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst , Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to 'live well' in our contemporary world.While virtue ethics is based on the moral philosophy of Aristotle, it has had many interpretations and iterations throughout history and features prominently in the thinking of the Stoics, Christian narratives and the writings of Nietzsche. The Art of Living Well explores and expands upon these traditions, using them as a basis to form a new interpretation; one that foregrounds art and creativity as paramount to the struggle to act in an authentic and moral way.Acting as both a clear introduction to virtue ethics and moral philosophy and a serious work of original philosophy, this book connects philosophy with real lived experience and tackles, head-on, the perennial philosophical 'how do we live well?'