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Whatever happened to concept of peace in an age of globalization, polarization, and radicalization?

SUMMARY: The concept of “peace” is very old and very rich. It was held in high regards as a essential human virtue. Ancient wisdom considered peace a state of well-being and desired equilibrium on multiple levels--personal, familial, communal, social, and national. At the same time, peace did not imply the absence of strife, adversity, conflict, or war. In our modern age, the concept of peace has become vague, confusing, mere subjective, manipulated, and misused, often negotiated to serve the dominant parties or those who possess polarized interests, powerful politics, hidden agendas, and militant drives. Obviously, waging conflict and war is easier than waging appreciation, harmony, and peace. In this presentation we will review the historical-philosophical backgrounds of peace, the psycho-spiritual and socio-cultural meanings of peace, the broad impact of globalization, the substantial rise of polarization, and the root-causes of extremism and radicalism. People helpers and clinical caregivers are called to reinstitute shalom/salaam/frieden/paix as a pure motive for genuine accord, mutual reconciliation, sociocultural healing, and global peacemaking, both on the micro and macro levels and in all social domains and human spheres. SPEAKER: Naji Abi-Hashem, MDiv, MA, PHD, DAAETS, is a clinical and cultural psychologist, author, visiting professor, consultant, public speaker, and cross-cultural worker. He is Lebanese-American who is involved in teaching-training-mentoring, conference presentations, counseling-psychotherapy, international service, humanitarian aid, writing-editing-publishing, volunteering work, pastoral care, global networking, and caring for the caregivers. Naji is active member of many national and international organizations, and is fully Licensed in the State of Washington, since 1995. So far, he has made about 130 professional presentations at scholarly conventions and has about 130 publications in form of journal articles, book-chapters, encyclopedia entries, DVDs, and periodical essays. He is a Fellow & Life Member of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Diplomate in the American Academy for Experts in Traumatic Stress (AAETS), a Life-Member of the Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS), and a Full Member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS). He also was appointed as a Non-Resident Scholar at both: Baylor University’s Institute for Studies in Religion (ISR) and Duke University’s Center for Spirituality and Health (CSTH). Naji usually divides his time between the USA and Beirut-Lebanon.