Conflict, Harmony and Peace : Dr. Santi Nath Chattopadhyay Felicitation Volume

Contents: I. Some noted peace thinkers and systems of thought: their ideas and ideals: 1. Ramakrishna Vivekananda’s vision of religion, harmony and peace/Swami Ranganathananda. 2. Major conflicts in the world today and Gandhi’s relevance/Hirochi Yamaguchi. 3. Evil and transcendence: existential prospect in Rabindranath Tagore/Chukwugozie Maduka. 4. Swami Vivekananda today-India’s spiritual and cultural voice for world peace and harmony/W. Augustat. 5. A pragmatic approach of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of educationfor justice andpeace/Kireet Joshi. 6. Sivasaranas message to the world for peace and harmony/K.V. Juktimath. 7. Engaged Buddhism and the Dalai Lama’s world view/Bharati Puri. 8. Intellectual history of anti-caste philosophers in India: A study on Mahatma Jyotirao, Phule, Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Periyar/E.V. Ramasamy Naicker/Surya Raju…II. Creative aesthetics and constructive philosophy of Harmony and peace: 1. Aesttherics, culture and peace at harmony/Swami Paramatmananda. 2. Role of literature in promoting world peace/Dauji Gupta. 3. Poetry and peace/Tarun Sanyal. 4. Poetry: an instrument of harmony and peace/Prasanna Kumar Karabar. 5. Ecopoetry and peace education: steps against environmental crisis/Sudipto Chattopadhyay. 6. Music, peace and globalization/Ketaki Goswami…III. Ethical values: reconciliation of conflict in harmony: 1. Paths of harmony and world peace: His holiness the Dalai Lama. 2. Expanding notions of conscientious objection: avoidance of moral injury/Patricia A. Murphy. 3. Global conflicts, harmony and peace: an ethical perspective/Kamaluddin Ahmed. 4. Non-violence as universal value for peace/R. Sampath. 5. Ethical values and peace/Mamata Kundu. 6. The route to peace: the value of non-violence…IV. Conflict, harmony and peace: an intercultural exploration: 1. Sciences a form of culture in historical perspective/D.P. Chattopadhyay. 2. Contemporary philosophy of physics and the unity of all being/Moazeziz Ali Beg. 3. Seeking research paradigms for Indian Cognitive science in developing harmony/A. Kanthamani. 4. A scientific study of material conflict, spirituality, harmony and peace/Gobinda Chandra Bandyopadhyay. 5. Religion as a source of conflict and its contribution to the economy of a country/Ishita Datta Ray. 6. Religion, religious conflicts and world peace/Basuparna Mukherjee. 7. Science in function of culture of peace and development of democracy as human value/Slavko Kulic and Marija Pavkov. 8. Religion and world peace/Lakshman Ghosh….V. Conflict and conflict resolution: 1. Conflict resolution/C.S. Dharmadhikari. 2. Conflict resolution/Acharya Ramamurti. 3. Some Reflection on violence and its remedies/Ranjit Chaudhhury. 4. Resolution of Indo-Pak conflict: a Gandhian approach/Ram Jee Singh. 5. Moral Equivalent of war as conflict resolution/Subhash Mehta. 6. Culture, cultural conflicts and peace/Aparna Mukherjee. ..VI. Conflict, harmony and peace: 1. A goal towards globalization peace-real and tangible/Kofi Annan. 2. The clash of civilizations and need for global peace/R.C. Sinha. 3. War-a peril in establishing world peace/M.B. Guled. 4. A passage to peace/Md. Nurul Huda. 5. Mechanization material contradictions and peace/Suniti Kumar Pathak. 6. Environment, development and world peace/Debarati Sen. 7. Development, ecology and peace/Sandip Das. 8. Global Democracy: a prospect of globalization/Goutam Acharya. 9. Towards a world without violence/Daya Dissanayake…VII. Felicitation to Dr. Santi Nath Chattopadhyay: Life and activities from several perspectives. VII-B: Global philosophy of Dr. Chattopadhyay with some scholastic openions in home and abroad. VII-C: Some learned observations of distinguished peace thinkers and scholars on Dr. Santi Nath Chattopadhyay. VII-D: Some important letters of reference. VII-E: Some important photographs. Bibliography. Index.

The object of the volume on ‘Conflict, Harmony and Peace (Dr. Santi Nath Chattopadhyay Felicitation Volume), is to examine the nature of conflict in modern world with a constructive process of reconciliation in harmony and peace from intercultural perspective. It is a program of inter-communication of ideas and ideals of different disciplines and systems of thought like science, philosophy, aesthetics, religion, ethics etc. with sharing of one another’s progressive views in developing coherent world order.

The Volume is dedicated to Swami Vivekananda, a celebrated Peace thinkers and humanist and is divided into different parts. Part-I on Some Noted Peace Thinkers and Systems of Thought: Their Ideas and Ideals. Part-II on Creative Aesthetics and constructive Philosophy of Harmony and Peace, Part-III on Ethical values : Reconciliation of conflict in Harmony, Part IV on Conflict and Harmony : An Intercultural exploration, Part V on Conflict and conflict resolution. Part VI on conflict Harmony and peace: a goal towards globalization. (jacket)