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Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st-Century Peace Ambassador
By James O'Dea
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This profound guidebook reframes and expands the mission of building a global culture of peace. Going far beyond conventional techniques of conflict resolution, James O’Dea provides a holistic approach to peace work, covering its oft-ignored cultural, spiritual, and scientific dimensions while providing guidance suitable even for those who have never considered themselves peacebuilders. O’Dea is unique in his ability to integrate personal experience in the world’s violent conflict zones with insights gathered from decades of work in social healing, human rights advocacy, and consciousness studies. Following in the footsteps of Gandhi and King, O’Dea keeps the dream of peace alive by teaching us how to dissolve old wounds and reconcile our differences. He strikes deep chords of optimism even as he shows us how to face the heart of darkness in conflict situations. His soulful but practical voice speaks universally to peace activists, mediators, negotiators, psychologists, educators, businesspeople, and clergyand to everyday citizens.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a powerful book which I think everyone should read. O'Dea, a long-time leader in the peace movement, argues persuasively that in order for peace to be gained on the community, national, and international level, it needs to start within each individual's responses to having their emotional buttons pushed, their need to be right/eous, and to win. But O'Dea is never sentimental nor simplistic. He knows what a big challenge this is, and he addresses it on the biological/biochemical level as well as the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual level.
The advantage to this approach is that it makes being a "peace ambassador" something each one of us can do every day -- and do so in a meaningful, significant way.
This is a profoundly spiritual book that never appeals to a particular spiritual path. It simply insists that each of us has the power to choose empathy, forgiveness, reconciliation, and generosity over fear and selfishness.
He does acknowledge that in some cases it is necessary to use force to prevent those who are stuck in their hate from harming others, but he holds out hope that healing is possible in the aftermath of even the most terrible acts of violence and injustice, using examples of actual victories of reconciliation.
O'Dea gives me hope for a more peaceful future, and the confidence to believe that I can be part of that peace starting right where I am.