A Grand Design for Peace and Reconciliation – Achieving Kyosei in East Asia

A Grand Design for Peace and ReconciliationAchieving Kyosei in East Asia\nAuthor(s): Yoichiro Murakami, Thomas J. Schoenbaum\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781847206664, 978-1847206664\nSynopsis\nScholars from Japan and a range of other countries explore in this book the still-unfinished effort to achieve the reconciliation of old enmities left over from past wars in East Asia. They present concrete policy proposals for a 'grand design' of peace based on the Japanese concept of 'kyosei, a word roughly translated as 'conviviality'. A positive peace through kyosei means not only the absence of violence, but also the amelioration of past injustices, exploitation and oppression. The diversity of disciplines represented in the volume - international law and politics, history, philosophy and theology - enrich the contributors' search for an intellectually appropriate, practically transformative and .