Introduction: Exploring Friendship, Peace and Social Justice
Heather Devere
PART 1: Social Justice and Political/Social/Civic/Adaptive Friendship
1. Social Justice, Social Friendship, and the Role of Trust as an Other-Oriented Emotion
Ana Romero-Iribas and Andrea Oelsner
2. Civic Friendship as a Remedy for the Cult of Mediocrity
Komlan Agbedahin
3. Friends with Benefits (and Sometimes Costs)
Tom H. Hastings
4. Chinese-Tanzanian Friendship and Friendship Treaties
Amy E. Stambach
PART II: Friendship as a Peace Practice
5. Building Peace through Facebook Friendship Groups
Lisa Gibson
6. Inquiry as Practice: Building Relationships through Listening in Participatory Action Peace Research
Raymond Hyma and Le Sen
7. The Art of Friendship: Solidifying Resettled Communities in Philadelphia
Katie L. Price and Yaroub Al-Obaidi
PART III: Friendship, Ethics and Justice
8. Solidarity without Borders: Friendship, the Arts, and Social Movements
Shelly Clay-Robison
9. Cultivating Virtuous Friendship as a Model for Teaching Peace Positively
Josu Ahedo
10. Toward an Ethic of Friendship in Academic Research: A Reflection on Rwanda and Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi
Noam Schimmel
PART IV: The Psychology of Friendship for Peace
11. First Friendships: Foundations for Peace
Darcia Narvaez
12. Neurobiology of Social Capacities: The Building Blocks of Friendship
Mary S. Tarsha
PART V: Economic Justice and Friendship
13. The Cost of Political Differences to the Peace of Friendship
Zaldy C. Collado
14. The Market as a Space for Building a Peaceful Society
Christopher J. Coyne, Michael R. Romero and Virgil Henry Storr
Conclusion: Connecting Friendship, Peace and Social Justice
Heather Devere
Biography
Heather Devere is Former Director of Practice of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The politics of friendship has been the thread connecting her work on peace and gender studies, social justice and ethics. She is founding co-editor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies.
