Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace

Deborah Guess is an Honorary Research Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. Her primary research areas are eco-theology and Christology. She is currently writing a monograph exploring the eco-theological meaning/s of place. Joseph A. Camilleri is Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He chairs the Academic Board of La Trobe College Australia, and is executive director of Alexandria Agenda, a venture in ethical consulting. In 2005 he founded the La Trobe Centre for Dialogue. Under his leadership, the Centre quickly established a national and international reputation for research, training, policy development, and community engagement.

1. Introduction.- 2. A Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace: Navigating the ‘Great Transition’.- 3.  Crossroads and Crosshairs: Violence, Nonviolence, Critique, Vision and Wonder.- 4. 'Holding' a Just and Ecological Peace.- 5. ‘Walking the Land’: an Alternative to Discourse as a Path to Ecological Consciousness and Peace.- 6. An Islamic Approach to Environmental Protection and Ecologically Sustainable Peace in the Age of the Anthropocene.- 7. Islamic Ethics and Truth Commissions in the Muslim World: Towards a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace?.- 8. Innate Wisdom – Peace on/in/with Earth.- 9. Pope Francis’s moral compass for climate change and global justice.- 10. Restoring Our Interconnected Spiritual and Ecological Integrity: Imperative for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace.- 11. Breathing the others, Seeing the lives: reflection on twenty-first century nonviolence.- 12. ‘We’ve Seen the End of the World and We Don’t Accept It’: Protection of Indigenous Country and Climate Justice.- 13. Reimagining Decolonising Praxis for a Just and Ecologically Sustainable Peace in an Australian Context.- 14. From Mendicant Nation to Global Citizen: Towards a new Australian foreign policy for the twenty-first century.- 15. Response: Utopian versus Prophetic Visions.- 16. The Winter of Our Discontent and the Promise of Spring: In Lieu of a Conclusion.