1. Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building: An Introduction and an Invitation (Ananta Kumar Giri) -- Part One: Dharma of Peace Building: New Visions and Practices of Conflict Transformations and Beyond -- 2. Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building: Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation and the Calling of Compassion, Confrontation and A New Art of Integration (Ananta Kumar Giri) -- 3. On the Moral and Ethical Limits of Conflict and Conflict Resolution (Piet Strydom) -- 4. Sustainable Peace: Vulnerability, Risk and the New World Environment (John Clammer) -- 5. Following Leo Tolstoy’s Conscientious Objection: Conscription of the Spirit and a New Dharma of Peace Building (Christian Bartolf) -- 6. Thinking Peace with Derrida as an unconditional openness to what is to-come (Nishant A. Irudayadason) -- Part Two: Towards a New Dharma of Peace Building: Further Insights from Indian and other Traditions -- 7. Abhinavagupta’s Arguments for Coexistence and Peace amongst Traditions: Understandingthe Transcendent Unity of traditions vis-à-vis Uniqueness of Kashmir Saivism (Muhammad Maroof Shah) -- 8. Towards a New Dharma and Ubuntu of Peace Building: African Perspectives (Michal Abam). etc.

This volume deals with a new Dharma of peacebuilding and conflict transformations, drawing on the world's philosophical, religious, and spiritual traditions and many recent initiatives and experiments with peace. It deals with issues of sustainable peace, Dharma and Ubuntu of peace from African traditions, neurological insights of peacebuilding, traditions of conscientious objection, Satyagraha, possibilities of Gandhian Ahimsa, and moral and ethical limits of conflict and conflict resolution. It also presents the works of peace thinkers and activists such as Spinoza, Abhinavagupta, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Ulrich Beck, and others. It offers new initiatives and experiments in peace in different parts of the world—Palestine-Israel, Colombia, the Middle East, India, and South Africa. This pioneering and handy book is of interest to students, scholars, teachers, and activists working in peace and conflict studies, development studies, cultural studies, and religious studies as well as in different civil society organizations around the world.