Eleven texts, from dialectic to violent aspects, from prehistory to nowadays society, deal in “Peace experiences in the Mediterranean”, a book published by the University of Granada in the colection Eirene, of the Institute of Peace and Conflicts, with peaceful coexistence patterns and experiences in the Mediterranean, which is the central core of a research project subsidized by the Ministry of Education and Culture (1998-2001) and developed in the Institute of Peace and Conflicts of the University of Granada.
The first chapter, Peace expressions in the Mediterranean, edited by Carmelo Pérez and Francisco A. Muñoz, is the leitmotiv of the other ten texts in which Gabriel Martínez Fernández, Juan M. Jiménez, Francisco A. Muñoz, Marcelo Lorente, Mª Dolores Mirón, Ana Ruth Vidal, María José Cano, Beatriz Molina, Carmelo Pérez, Eduardo Enríquez del Árbol and Enrique Sainz take part.
The ten chapters deal with: Prehistoric humans, not naturally violent nor peaceful, but quite the opposite; Dialectic and dialogues from the antique Mediterranean; Women and mediation in the antique Greece; Concord, a clasic proposal for peace; Non violent aspects of the Yihad; Mediterranean Judaism: from the myth to modernity; Multilingualism and cultural interaction in the Maghreb; Human right movement in Marocco: civil society for peace; Between mediatization and independence: peace perspectives in the Lebanon; and European and Mediterranean Security.
According to the book editors, “Local and partial studies, like those of this volume, will only be useful, from our point of view, if they contribute to a peace private, public and political empoderamiento assesment”.
Thus, according to Carmelo Pérez and Francisco A. Muñoz, “Resorting to history is not a useless, because it can be used to question too contemporary approaches that look for keys and answers for the current moment in the present, which is partially true but not to such an extent to confuse personal time with that of the mankind. To the contrary, we intend to prove that prehistoric times, Greek and Roman philosophy, Jewish mobility, Arab premises and permanent non-violent premises, among others, condition our present and future security and welfare.”
Reference:
– Professor Carmelo Pérez Beltrán.
Institute of Peace and Conflicts. University of Granada.
Phone number: 958 248354.
E-mail: carmelop@ugr.es
– Professor Francisco A. Muñoz Muñoz.
Institute of Peace and Conflicts.
University of Granada.
Phone number: 958 242383 – 248356.
E-mail: fmunoz@ugr.es
