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From Pacification to Peacebuilding: A Call to Global Transformation By Diana Francis Pluto Press, 2010, 193 pages (paper)
Diana Francis, British Quaker and former president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, is that rare combination of careful scholar and committed activist who is certainly one of the premier leaders in the growing field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Her previous books, People, Peace and Power (2002) and Rethinking War and Peace (2004) and this one, From Pacification to Peacebuilding, establish her importance as a thinker whose scholarship is grounded in work in areas of conflict in many places in the world. Her visionary perspective was in evidence in the 15 years she served as chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support.
Francis challenges the reader to think deeply and radically in dealing with the...