Table Of ContentVisions of Peace
Justice, international Law
and Global security
series editor: Howard M. Hensel
as the global community enters the 21st century, it is confronted with a wide variety
of both traditional and non-traditional challenges to its security and even survival,
as well as unprecedented opportunities for global socio-economic development.
international law will play a major role as the international community attempts
to address these challenges and opportunities while, simultaneously attempting
to create a just and secure global order capable of protecting and promoting the
common good of the whole of mankind.
The ashgate series on Justice, International Law and Global Security is
designed to encourage and highlight analytical, scholarly works that focus on
the ways in which international law contributes to the management of a wide
variety of contemporary challenges and opportunities, while, simultaneously,
helping to promote global justice and security.
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James Turner Johnson
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The Prism of Just War
Asian and Western Perspectives on the Legitimate Use of Military Force
edited by Howard M. Hensel
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Peace Operations and Restorative Justice
Groundwork for Post-conflict Regeneration
Peter Reddy
isBn: 978-1-4094-2989-0
The Law of War
ingrid Detter
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Visions of Peace
asia and The West
edited by
TakasHi sHoGiMen
University of Otago, New Zealand
and
Vicki a. sPenceR
University of Otago, New Zealand
First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing
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shogimen, Takashi, 1967-
Visions of peace : asia and the west / by Takashi shogimen and Vicki a spencer.
pages cm. – (Justice, international law and global security)
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-1-4094-2870-1 (hardback) 1. Peace–social aspects–asia. 2. Peace–Political
aspects–asia. 3. Peace–Religious aspects–asia. i. Ti tle.
JZ5584.a69s56 2014
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isBn 9781409428701 (hbk)
isBn 9781315548005 (ebk)
Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Takashi Shogimen and Vicki A. Spencer
1 Eirēnē: Ancient Greek Goddess and Concept of Peace 11
Patricia A. Hannah
2 The Dissident Tradition of Christian Pacifism 29
Murray Rae
3 Concept of Peace in Hinduism: A Historical Analysis 47
Kaushik Roy
4 The Confucian Vision of Peace 67
Kam-por Yu
5 A Historical Reflection on Peace and Public Philosophy
in Japanese Thought: Prince Shotoku, Ito Jinsai and Yokoi
Shonan 85
Shin Chiba
6 Visions of Peace in Medieval European Political Thought 103
Takashi Shogimen
7 Enlightenment Perspectives on War and Peace 119
Bruce Buchan
8 Indigenous Inspiration and Herder’s Peace Woman 139
Vicki A. Spencer
9 Liberal Peace Plans and Cultural Difference: Jeremy
Bentham and the Limits of Enlightenment Universalism 161
Katherine Smits
Index 177
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List of Contributors
Bruce Buchan is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the ARC
Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security and the School of Humanities at
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on the historical uses
and transformations of political concepts. He is currently working on a project
on the conceptual history of security and asymmetric warfare in the eighteenth
century. His recent publications include The Empire of Political Thought:
Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government (Pickering
and Chatto, 2008) and An Intellectual History of Corruption (co-authored with
Lisa Hill, Palgrave, 2013). He has also co-edited two editions of Cultural Studies
Review exploring representations of mortality (2011) and another mapping
interdisciplinary approaches to the study of noise (2012).
Shin Chiba is Professor of Political Thought at the International Christian
University in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests encompass federalism, radical
democracy, ecology and the relationship between religion and politics. His
publications in English include Christian Ethics in Ecumenical Context (co-edited
with George R. Hunsberger and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Eerdmans Publishing,
1995), Toward a Peaceable Future (co-edited with Yoichiro Murakami and Noriko
Kawamura, The Foley Institute, 2005), Peace Movements and Pacifism after
September 11 (co-edited with Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Edward Elgar, 2008) and
Building New Pathways to Peace (co-edited with Noriko Kawamura and Yoichiro
Murakami, University of Washington Press, 2011).
Patricia A. Hannah is a Senior Lecturer in, and past Chair of, the Department of
Classics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests
focus on the material and conceptual foundations for the artistic and social culture
of Archaic and Classical Greece. Her recent publications have explored the links
connecting ancient Greek imagery and popular thought, especially in the area of
military theory and practice. She is currently working on a book on the visual
representation of soldiers and their equipment in Athenian vase-painting.
Murray Rae is Professor of Theology at the University of Otago in New Zealand
and Head of the Department of Theology and Religion where he teaches courses in
Systematic Theology and Ethics. His research interests include the work of Søren
Kierkegaard, theological hermeneutics, Maori engagements with Christianity and
theology and the built environment. He is editor of the Journal of Theological
Interpretation monograph series and his publications include Mana Maori and
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Christianity (Huia, 2012), Kierkegaard and Theology (Continuum, 2010), History
and Hermeneutics (T&T Clark, 2005) and Kierkegaard’s Vision of the Incarnation
(Clarendon Press, 1997).
Kaushik Roy is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, India, and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute
in Oslo, Norway. He has written and edited 19 books from Oxford University
Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Bloomsbury, Ashgate and Brill
among others and 45 articles in peer reviewed journals including the Journal of
Global History, Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Military History, Modern
Asian Studies and War in History. His latest publication is Hinduism and the Ethics
of Warfare in South Asia: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge University
Press, 2012).
Takashi Shogimen is Associate Professor in History and Associate Dean
(Research) for Humanities at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
He has previously been Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Visiting
Professor in History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests encompass
medieval European political thought, comparative political theory and Japanese
intellectual history. His publications include Ockham and Political Discourse in
the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Western Political
Thought in Dialogue with Asia (co-edited with Cary J. Nederman, Lexington
Books, 2009).
Katherine Smits is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Politics and International
Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She researches and teaches
in political theory, specializing in contemporary and historical liberal thought,
multiculturalism, feminist political theory and identity politics. She is the author of
the books Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (Palgrave Macmillan,
2005) and Applying Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), as well as
several articles on liberal political theory, multiculturalism and national identity.
She is currently working on a study of multiculturalist policies and modernity in
Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Vicki A. Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in political theory in the Department of
Politics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests
encompass early modern European thought and contemporary political theory
with a focus on issues relating to language, cultural identities, nationalism
and multiculturalism. She is the co-editor (with Paul Corcoran) of Disclosures
(Ashgate, 2000) and her most recent publication is Herder’s Political Thought:
A Study of Language, Culture and Community (University of Toronto Press,
2012). She is currently working on a project in contemporary theory on toleration,
humility and recognition.
List of Contributors ix
Kam-por Yu is currently Director of the General Education Centre at the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. He is also a Scientific Associate of the Philosophy
Chapter of SIGENET-Health, Sino-Germany Research Network on Public Health
and Bioethics, Berlin. His main area of interest is in ethics – including ethical
theory and applied ethics, and especially Confucian ethics and bioethics. His latest
publications include Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously (State University of New
York Press, 2010) and Social Ethics: An Introduction (Oxford University Press,
2012), and a series of papers on the Confucian views on war, peace, harmony,
civility and pluralistic values.
