Weaving Peace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weaving Peace write by Samuel Kale Ewusi. This book was released on 2012-08-30. Weaving Peace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weaving Peace: Essays on Peace, Governance and Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa provides a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on issues of peace, governance, and conflict transformation by academics and practitioners from eight partner institutions of the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa. It is an essential tool for scholars and policymakers seeking contextual clarity behind the headlines about the nature and extent of conflicts in the region and how to go about transforming the region. It provides a rather nuanced perspective of the complexity of the peace/conflict dynamics of the region and underscores the inescapable truth of the need for a more indigenous and context-based approach to understanding the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Peace Weavers
Peace Weavers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peace Weavers write by Candace Wellman. This book was released on 2020-10-14. Peace Weavers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the mid-1800s, outsiders, including many Euro-Americans, arrived in what is now northwest Washington. As they interacted with Samish, Lummi, S’Klallam, Sto:lo, and other groups, some of the men sought relationships with young local women. Hoping to establish mutually beneficial ties, Coast and Interior Salish families arranged strategic cross-cultural marriages. Some pairs became lifelong partners while other unions were short. These were crucial alliances that played a critical role in regional settlement and spared Puget Sound’s upper corner from the tragic conflicts other regions experienced. Accounts of the men, who often held public positions--army officer, Territorial Supreme Court justice, school superintendent, sheriff--exist in a variety of records. Some, like the nephew of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, were from prominent eastern families. Yet across the West, the contributions of their native wives remain unacknowledged. The women’s lives were marked by hardships and heartbreaks common for the time, but the four profiled--Caroline Davis Kavanaugh, Mary Fitzhugh Lear Phillips, Clara Tennant Selhameten, and Nellie Carr Lane--exhibited exceptional endurance, strength, and adaptability. Far from helpless victims, they influenced their husbands and controlled their homes. Remembered as loving mothers and good neighbors, they ran farms, nursed and supported family, served as midwives, and operated businesses. They visited relatives and attended ancestral gatherings, often with their children. Each woman’s story is uniquely hers, but together they and other intermarried women helped found Puget Sound communities and left lasting legacies. They were peace weavers. Author Candace Wellman hopes to shatter stereotypes surrounding these relationships. Numerous collaborators across the United States and Canada--descendants, local historians, academics, and more--graciously participated in her seventeen-year effort.
Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope
Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope write by Ed Brody. This book was released on 1992. Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of stories passed down by storytellers about peace, hope, and justice.
The Weaving Book of Peace and Patience
The Weaving Book of Peace and Patience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Weaving Book of Peace and Patience write by Isadora Safner. This book was released on 1980. The Weaving Book of Peace and Patience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies
Weaving Words and Binding Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weaving Words and Binding Bodies write by Megan Cavell. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Weaving Words and Binding Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature. Several hundred instances of such imagery occur in the poetic corpus, invoked in connection with objects, people, elemental forces, and complex abstract concepts. Weaving Words and Binding Bodies presents the first comprehensive study of weaving and binding imagery through intertextual analysis and close readings of Beowulf, riddles, the poetry of Cynewulf, and other key texts. Megan Cavell highlights the prominent use of weaving and binding in previously unrecognized formulas, collocations, and type-scenes, shedding light on important tropes such as the lord-retainer “bond” and the gendered role of “peace-weaving” in Anglo-Saxon society. Through the analysis of metrical, rhetorical, and linguistic features and canonical and neglected texts in a wide range of genres, Weaving Words and Binding Bodies makes an important contribution to the ongoing study of Anglo-Saxon poetics.
