Peace In The Age Of Chaos: The Best Solution For A Sustainable Future

by Steve Killelea

Overview

The major challenges facing humanity are global in nature, including climate change, pandemics, ever decreasing biodiversity, lack of usable fresh water and food security - to name a few. Without a world that is basically peaceful, we will never achieve the level of trust, cooperation and inclusiveness needed to solve these issues, yet what creates peace is poorly understood.

In Peace in the Age of Chaos, Steve Killelea, founder of both the Global Peace Index and the world-renowned think tank the Institute for Economics and Peace, tells his personal journey to measure and understand peace. It explores the practical application of Steve's work, which is gathering momentum at a rapid pace, and offers thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its likely impact on the world, particularly on peace.

In this time when we are faced with environmental, social and economic challenges, this book shows us a way forward where Positive Peace, described as the optimal environment for human potential to flourish, can lead to a paradigm shift in the way societies can be managed, thereby transcending and reinvigorating western democracies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780646837703
Publisher:	One Tree Films
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a treasure chest for anybody who tries to find answers to some of the most important questions in our life. The book is engaging and thought-provoking. Trying to understand the meaning of peace and finding pathways forward is today more important than ever. I wish that all those who exercise power were to read this book and reflect on it. The world would be a better place and we would be able to solve problems rather than create them." - Georg Kell, FOUNDER AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED NATIONS GLOBAL COMPACT

"The book and the ideas in it are both inspirational and foundational. Steve demonstrates an infectious passion for humanity and the world we live in, a developed understanding of how individuals and societies function and a clear direction of travel to a better and more sustainable future." - Lord John Alderdice, MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS SINCE 1996

"The Positive Peace framework provides a roadmap to a more peaceful world. The focus on building peace rather than just combating violence changes the entire perspective and approach. What are the most peaceful countries, and how do they achieve it? What systems, structures, qualities, and characteristics enable some societies to thrive in peace while others struggle and falter in violence? Peace in the Age of Chaos tells the story of how Steve Killelea, an extraordinary technology entrepreneur from Australia, applied his skills and humanitarian values to the most vexing challenge of humanity, and it illustrates how the lessons can be applied." - Chic Dambach, PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF THE NATIONAL PEACE CORPS ASSOCIATION

"Amazing ideas that you rarely if ever come across elsewhere. Because this book is a game-changer. When you finish the last page and close his book, you'll never think of peace in the same way again." - Claude Forthomme, WRITER, ECONOMIST AND SENIOR EDITOR AT IMPAKTER

"This book tells the remarkable and inspirational story of the man whose vision and genius for innovation created this shift in peace thinking and practice. Standing in the great tradition of entrepreneurs who have committed their energy and resources to world peace, Killelea has reactivated the idea of positive peace and provided a robust and context sensitive methodology through which it can be defined, cultivated and implemented." - Tom Woodhouse, EMERITUS PROFESSOR, PEACE STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD

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