More Justice, More Peace - (Acr Practitioner's Guide) by Susanne Terry (Paperback)

About the Book

More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.

Book Synopsis

More Justice, More Peace: When Peacemakers are Advocates is an attempt to broaden the vision of those practitioners with a passion for bringing about necessary change in our society who also work to bring people together to explore issues, solve problems, and overcome differences.

Review Quotes

More Justice, More Peace is an impressive compilation of articulate voices from a community of innovative, problem-solving pathfinders and conflict resolution trailblazers. It addresses head-on the perennial paradox of how so-called impartial intervenors/third parties handle the questionable notion that dispute resolvers are to be neutral and are not to be advocates. In fifteen chapters, practitioners describe their conflict journeys and experiences that go beyond status quo affirming practices and processes. Each story told here opens a portal beyond neutrality to the promising frontiers of just peace in our evolving futures. It is a useful guide for the conflict-perplexed.

The work of justice is not the exclusive province of the courts, it belongs to everyone. The contributors to this book demonstrate the special courage and enduring work needed to make justice and peace accessible to the most vulnerable in our communities. More Justice, More Peace is a must read for anyone who cares about justice and peace--and that should be all of us.

What happens when we give justice a seat at the same table as those we serve with our conflict engagement skills and processes? Through the stories of those who've forged unconventional paths with their conflict engagement skills, this remarkable book paints a powerful picture of what becomes possible when we choose to work at the intersection of neutrality and activism, justice and accord.

About the Author

Susanne Terry is a pioneer in mediation and conflict education. She was one of the first mediators and conflict educators in the state of Vermont and was instrumental in writing the requirements for certification in mediation in the state. She created the Mediation Program of Woodbury College which later moved to Champlain College and became a highly respected graduate degree program.