Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peacebuilding
«Ambassador John W. McDonald is widely credited as a founding father of the emerging field of multi-track diplomacy, which shares responsibility for a radical drop in the level of political violence globally over the last 20 years. This book reveals the extraordinary details of a 60-year career that serves as a shining example of what it is possible for us to accomplish through multi-track diplomacy. His life shows that it is the commitment and imagination of individuals and small groups working in and across government, civil society, and private sectors, as well as across religious and secular, cultural, national, ethnic, and gender divides, bottom-up as well as top-down, that create the spark needed for transformative social change at all levels and sustainable peace for a small planet.»
John Davies, co-director of Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding, Center for Internati
This book brings together the remembrances of Ambassador John W. McDonald, a veteran diplomat whose life serves as a model to those people of vision and action who wish to make a difference in a world that is desperate for the end of conflict. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780739124260
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«Ambassador John W. McDonald is widely credited as a founding father of the emerging field of multi-track diplomacy, which shares responsibility for a radical drop in the level of political violence globally over the last 20 years. This book reveals the extraordinary details of a 60-year career that serves as a shining example of what it is possible for us to accomplish through multi-track diplomacy. His life shows that it is the commitment and imagination of individuals and small groups working in and across government, civil society, and private sectors, as well as across religious and secular, cultural, national, ethnic, and gender divides, bottom-up as well as top-down, that create the spark needed for transformative social change at all levels and sustainable peace for a small planet.»
John Davies, co-director of Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding, Center for Internati
«This memoir by Ambassador John McDonald, so ably compiled with Noa Zanolli, is akin to a modern-day spirit of 'hope', the last often-forgotten element contained in Pandora’s Box. This sorely-needed book evidences that one person can make a difference, like a ripple that becomes a wave to wash away unresolved conflict from the shores of injustice. His life and example, with his partner and wife Christel, is exactly what the next generations requires, to feel hope in an otherwise seemingly helpless world that does not listen. He imbues enthusiasm in his patience, perseverance, practical perennial philosophy, as a principled peace-builder both personally and professionally. What message does a life's work such as his impart to us? What comes to my mind is that individually, institutionally, and internationally, we can all soar above the din, and each have a voice that is heard.»
Ernest G. Tannis, solicitor and mediator, author of Alternative Dispute Resolution That Works