Foreword

Journal of Peace Education

"The search for understanding and response is embedded and embodied, held in the soundscape of human experience and has both an individual and socially evocative capacity and source."

For much of the profession and research field of peace studies, if I may use a provocative metaphor, we seem stuck in the era of silent films. We have ignored the soundscape, the ever present, surrounding and penetrating presence of vibration within human experience, through which the perceptive, emotional, and interpretive schemes that shape the human search for meaning and response emerge, adapt, and respond. As mentioned in a previous work, Jacques Attali located this issue in a much larger context when he wrote: ‘For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for the hearing. It is not legible, but audible’ (2004, 10)…

Lederach, John Paul. “Foreword.” Journal of Peace Education 13, no. 3 (2016): 197–99.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Peace Education, on 20 Feb 2017, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2016.1268343.

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