New Releases by Geraldine M

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the idea that acting collectively, in associations, ordinary people can play a useful peacebuilding role. In both El Salvador and Colombia, accords signed as a result of elite-led negotiations for peace have had limited effect in reducing levels of violence. This thesis considers that rather than focusing predominantly on what can be achieved through negotiations, a more useful approach would be to examine the kind of peacebuilding activities which ordinary people are able to engage in, given the surrounding constraints. Chapter one explores the historical contexts of conflict in El Salvador and Colombia. Chapter two establishes the conceptual framework for the thesis. It reviews several different bodies of literature and explains the main ideas to be explored through empirical analysis in the case study chapters. Chapters three and four explore the limitations of elite-led negotiations for peace in El Salvador and Colombia respectively. Chapter five empirically explores six grassroots peacebuilding initiatives which provides the basis for a typology of peacebuilding strategies from ''below''. Chapter six explores how to create an infrastructure for peace which can help protect and validate spaces for grassroots peacebuilding. The conclusion argues that the international community and intermediary organisations have a dual role to play in acting as facilitators between different levels of peacebuilding activity, and in trying to prise open and maintain spaces for grassroots peacebuilding.

Katrina''s grandmother talks to a group of young people about respect for self and others.

Mickey has a hard time understanding the concept of honor until he has a talk with his grandmother about how honor operates in everyday life.

Conrad refuses to do his chores until a dream offers him a lesson in responsibility.

SARA GOES ON AN HERB HUNT, book four of The Katrina Tells series, starts with Katrina asking Sara to ask her granny for some Elecampane for her cold. This request sparks in Sara, questions about herbs & a regret that it is the Christmas holidays instead of spring. Granny turns Sara''s interest into a productive search for herbs, first in the snow outside where they gather some Yellow Dock & cedar bark, then through her well stocked herb supply & finally through the pages of many a herb book. With all the information, Sara puts together her very own herb book reiterating both her diligent research & true stories from her granny including home-remedial uses. The line-art pictures of each herb & information on where each might be found makes Sara more than ready for the on coming of her spring & summer outdoor search for herbs. A wonderfully inspiring book & a must for both young & old herbal entrepreneurs. To order: The New Dawn Publishing Co., Road 1, Box 133, Dexter, NY 13634. Phone: (315) 639-6764.

Rebeca tells how her uncle Conrad, who was a frail, sickly baby, was saved by his mother''s loving instincts.

Zachary still remembers his "real" parents and finds that adjusting to life as Marie and Tom''s adopted son is sometimes a painful reality.

Esta obra representa la elaboración teórica de una labor clínica de dos décadas en el tratamiento coterapéutico de parejas y familias. El método empleado es extensión y punto de confluencia de la psicología dinámica, la fenomenología existencial y la teoría de los sistemas aplicada a la comprensión de las relaciones humanas. Un importante aspecto de la técnica aquí presentada es la identificación de los conflictos de lealtades no admitidos o inconcientes, en los que el aparente “traidor” es a la postre destruido o castigado por sus intentos de autonomía. Otro interesante aporte resulta del concepto de “justicia” en el marco familiar. El “balance” o desequilibrio de las “cuentas” que el individuo registra a lo largo de los años en su “libro mayor” de la justicia familiar, pondrán en evidencia un proceso de interacción dinámica. Analizan los autores la parentalización de los hijos, el fenómeno de la transferencia, estableciendo los puntos de acuerdo y desacuerdo con la teoría psicoanalítica, y los problemas técnicos vinculados a la aplicación de su marco conceptual.