{"id":1073,"date":"2020-09-07T06:21:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T05:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2020-09-07T06:21:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T05:21:41","slug":"a-textbook-on-peacemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-textbook-on-peacemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"A textbook on peacemaking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frustrations I felt travelling this path is the lack of an off-the-shelf textbook on &#8220;How to Do Peace&#8221;. Seeing a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghof-foundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation<\/a> raised some hope. A single reference book is what I have hoped for.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation offers a continuously updated online publication platform for both academics and practitioners to review the state of the art, discuss new ideas and exchange experiences in the field of conflict transformation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not a handbook, it is a web site of articles and downloads.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About the Handbook:<br \/>\nThe Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation offers a continuously updated online publication platform for both academics and practitioners to review the state of the art, discuss new ideas and exchange experiences in the field of conflict transformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seemingly useful should be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghof-foundation.org\/fileadmin\/redaktion\/Publications\/Books\/Berghof_Glossary_2019_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berghof Glossary on Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding<\/a> which sounds promising &#8216;<em>We first published this small and compact booklet as a guide to our interpretation of the cornerstones of peacebuilding and conflict transformation in 2012<\/em>&#8216;. However, it is &#8217;20 essays on theory and practice&#8217; in 170 pages. It may be useful, but it&#8217;s not really a glossary, is it?<\/p>\n<p>It is another web resource of articles, not an off-the-shelf handbook which is what is needed by those wanting to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frustrations I felt travelling this path is the lack of an off-the-shelf textbook on &#8220;How to Do Peace&#8221;. Seeing a link to the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation raised some hope. A single reference book is what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/09\/a-textbook-on-peacemaking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,311,303,286],"tags":[174,315,307,285],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence-based-peace","category-practitioners","category-resources","category-techniques","tag-evidence-based-peace","tag-practitioners","tag-resources","tag-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}