Stories of Peace Volume II

Creating and Sustaining Peace through Social Responsibility and Education

Edited By: Christian C. Anieke, Mary Gloria C. Njoku

£41.99

The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.

This volume represents a collection of stories and essays that highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace. Put together, the contributions here propose that…

This volume represents a collection of stories and essays that highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace. Put together, the contributions here propose that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. Likewise, some actions could lead to violence. If we can vanquish the vices of envy, distrust, greed, and their like, and if we support social and economic justice and come together in charity, we can intentionally bring peace to our lives, homes, institutions, and communities. If we are socially responsible, we shall indeed work together for social justice, and, thus, create and sustain peace. The loud and deferring voices of conflicts, wars, and terrorism must continue to be drowned out by strong voices of peace. As part of the effort to make peace heard in order to match the voices and stories of war and terrorism, this book collects these stories of peace to inspire the reader to work for peace and join the community of people sharing peace stories.

Mary Gloria C. Njoku is a member of the Daughters of Divine Love Congregation, and holds a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy from DePaul University, USA, and a Master of Education in Information Technology from Memorial University, Canada. She is currently a Professor at Godfrey Okoye University, Nigeria. Her research focuses on understanding and developing interventions that promote overall quality of life, spirituality and religion, invisible disability, coping behavior, education, mentoring and community-based studies. Her publications include My Health Management Manual: A Guide to a Healthy and Happy Life; I Need Healing: Personality, Anxiety and Mood Disorders; and Nelly: Journey into Religious Life.

Christian C. Anieke received his first degree in Education and English from the prestigious University of Nigeria Nsukka. After his graduation, he studied to become a Catholic priest, and was admitted to the Seat of Wisdom Seminary in Owerri, Nigeria, to study Philosophy. Upon receiving his degree, he was sent by his Local Ordinary to study Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Germany. Having been ordained Catholic priest in 2011, he went on to obtain Master’s degrees in Biblical Theology and English and American Studies, and a PhD in English. Having founded Godfrey Okoye University, Nigeria, for the Catholic Diocese of Enugu in 2009, Professor Anieke became the foundation Vice Chancellor. Christian is a member of the Advisory Board of Centre for the International Studies of Literatures in English (CISLE). His research focuses on the problems of intercultural communication in literatures in English.