"Boulding presents an impressive catalog of cultures and organizations that focus on conflict resolution
as their raison d'etre. Building on 50 years of work with her late husband, Kenneth, Boulding has assembled a clear
picture of forces and groups struggling to bring peace--which includes justice and development--to the planet."
--Choice
Publisher web site, January, 2002.
Summary
Boulding examines structural violence in terms of the major institutional obstacles to a more peaceful future:
the tension between the states and the people trapped inside them, the tension between the techno-sphere and the
biosphere, and between global systems and local know-how. She describes social movements around the world that
are developing alternative ways of handling the great diversity of human biospheric needs on the planet. In addition,
Boulding brings together her experiences "to empower the peace building activities if we are to do better
in the twenty-first century than we have done in the twentieth century."
The book will be of interest to scholars of peace studies, international relations, and the environment, as well
as human rights activists and policy makers.
