Nonviolent Resistance, Social Justice, and Positive Peace

2021 ◽  
pp. 211-226
Author(s):  
Jonathan Pinckney
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Nonviolent Resistance ◽  
Positive Peace

scholarly journals The role of endowments in the realization of peace and human rights

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jafar Sabbaghian Deloui ◽  
Ali Pourqasab Amiri ◽  
Alireza Jahangiri ◽  
Ahmad Reza Behniafar
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Right To Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Right To Development ◽  
Positive Peace ◽  
The Right ◽  
Economic Inequalities

The results of this article indicate that positive peace focuses on health, disease and the fight against disease, poverty, social and economic inequalities, and the realization of social justice and at the same time, the components of the third generation of human rights are trying to realize such things as the right to development, the right to education and the right to occupation that due to its functions, endowment plays an important role in providing the mentioned items. In conclusion, it can be said that endowment is effective in strengthening and promoting positive peace and the components of the third generation of human rights.

scholarly journals Jesus Christ as the Final Scapegoat: Mobilizing Nonviolent Movements for Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-237
Author(s):  
Craig L. Nessan
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Innocent Victim ◽  
The People ◽  
Nonviolent Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Cross

Abstract We live in an age of endemic violence. Violence is fed by the binary categories through which human beings interpret the world, leading to the phenomenon of scapegoating violence. Jesus died to be the final scapegoat. Spirals of fear singled out Jesus to be the scapegoat for the anxieties and animosities of the people in his time. René Girard discovered in the Christian Gospels a truthful narrative that did not mask or disguise scapegoating for what it is: the elimination of the innocent victim(s). Christians dare to claim that Jesus died to end all scapegoating. This nonviolent interpretation of the cross of Jesus Christ serves as the theological foundation for active participation by Christians in movements for organized nonviolent resistance as a means of achieving social justice. This foundation is urgently needed in a world of spiraling violence and war making.

When something dehumanizes, it is violent but when it elevates, it is not violent

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-472
Author(s):  
Seth Oppong
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Positive Peace ◽  
Epistemological Violence

Epistemological violence is alive and problematic. There is no gainsaying that it dehumanizes members of non-Western societies or persons who differ from the Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) Whites. Psychology has a white, affluent, Western skew as the values of the middle-class, Western, Christian, male, Whites (MWCMW) are held as the frame of reference. In this commentary, I first show how Held’s (2020) “true-for and true-about prepositional” frame is useful for understanding the findings that Africans tend to attribute mental disorders to spiritual causes. However, I respond to her major thesis by clarifying the concept of epistemological violence and addressing the concept of “othering” as a form of linguistic violence. I further argue that interpretations of group differences that do not harm the members of the comparison group are not violent; if something promotes social justice, it is no longer violent but an instance of epistemological “positive peace.”

Restructuring Educational Systems and Promoting Social Justice for Young People Involved in Drug Trafficking in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 227 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Sandro Gomes Pessoa ◽  
Linda Liebenberg ◽  
Dorothy Bottrell ◽  
Silvia Helena Koller
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract. Economic changes in the context of globalization have left adolescents from Latin American contexts with few opportunities to make satisfactory transitions into adulthood. Recent studies indicate that there is a protracted period between the end of schooling and entering into formal working activities. While in this “limbo,” illicit activities, such as drug trafficking may emerge as an alternative for young people to ensure their social participation. This article aims to deepen the understanding of Brazilian youth’s involvement in drug trafficking and its intersection with their schooling, work, and aspirations, connecting with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 and 16 as proposed in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in 2015 .

Tests, Minorities, and Social Justice

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 934-935
Author(s):  
JACK D. FORBES
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice

The Third Way and Beyond: Criminal and Social Justice in England

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie M. Lothstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Third
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