About this book

Peace cannot be taken for granted, nor can it be decreed. This is amply demonstrated by today’s world. Peace decided by one of the parties in conflict to the detriment of the other is not peace, but an act of domina-tion by force based on the exclusion of the reasons that lead the other to express disagreement or opposition. The problem is therefore to determine how one and the other can come to an agreement. This presupposes an un-derstanding on the part of each party of what the other is, according to his or her own particular identity. The temptation in conflict is always to demonize the adversary and exclude him or her from the ecumene. The latter is then presented, by the authorities and the media, in the darkest terms. He is said to be a manifesta-tion of evil, justifying his destruction. This passionate vision needs no ba-sis in reality. In fact, it’s all the easier to get people to accept it when they can rely on a deeper ignorance of who the other is, their concerns, their in-tentions, their state of mind, their reasons for acting as they do. It’s a ques-tion of justifying the action taken against him, not understanding him as he is. The question of peace, then, is how to prevent such outbursts of fu-ry as far as possible, and limit their consequences. In other words, how can we promote a culture of peace?

E-BOOK. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM: The Role of Transdisciplinarity as a Scientific and Cultural Approach in Preventing Global Conflicts of Modern Civilization

 Symposium presentation

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

ARTICLES, OPINIONS AND TALKS

Florent Pasquier
Towards a Transdisciplinary and Sustainable Culture of Peace. Theories and Practices

Vladimir Mokiy
Social Reality and Transdisciplinarity Approach to Avoid Global Conflicts

Hubert Landier
A Requirement for Peace: Information Hygiene

Mariana Thieriot Loisel
Intradisciplinarity: A First Step, Towards Peace and Transdisciplinary Dialogue

Ndubuisi Idejiora-Kalu
Predicting & Eradicating Conflict in Human Society Through Understudying Peace as a Science, Its Theory, Ontology & Mechanics Using Transdisciplinarity

Eric Carrey
The Actions of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Support of International Humanitarian Law

Marc Georges Klein
Resistance

Hubert Landier
The Wanderings of the Goldfish. Transdisciplinarity and Co-Living

Martine Boudet
Intercultural and Transcultural in the Service of a Culture of Peace

Margaret Hiro Kimishima
Mutual Flourishing in the Vesica Pisces

Maiko Sawada
When Harm Feels Digital: Emotion, Culture, and the Politics of Silence

VIEWPOINTS

Leonardo da Silva Guimarães Martins da Costa
Independent Transdisciplinary Theorist and Practitioner (HPTD-M)       

Jean-Luc Martin-Lagardette
The Main Strength of Transdisciplinarity, a Tool for Peace: Love of Life, Self-Knowledge and Curiosity about Others