Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Hoping With: an Editorial Introduction / Sahar Heydari Fard -- PART 1 -- Peace, Hope, and Truth -- 2 Peace and Hope in Dark Times / Barry Gan -- 3 Reconstruction after Trump: Restoring Health, Truth, and Democracy / Paula Smithka -- 4 Hope as a Moral Perspective: a Performative Language for Peace Activism in a Dark Time / William Gay -- PART 2 -- Authoritarianism and Resistance -- 5 Authoritarian Ideology and the Saving Power: Finding Hope in Black Lives Matter and the Youth Climate Movement / Casey Rentmeester -- 6 The Dilemma of Domestic Fascism / Garret Merriam -- 7 The Moral Pathway Forward for Resisters in a Genocide / Paul E. Wilson -- 8 Does Civil Resistance Rely on the Justice of the Opposing Regime? / Stephen DiLorenzo -- PART 3 -- Current Issues -- 9 Fake News in the Information Age: the Challenges It Poses for Peace / Dakota Layton -- 10 Feminism and the Need to Confront White Privilege / Danielle Poe -- 11 Broadening the Category of Moral Injury to Better Grasp the Wrong of Violence / Sanjay Lal -- 12 Josef Pieper’s Defense of St. Thomas Aquinas on Peace / Rashad Rehman -- PART 4 -- Practical Applications -- 13 Building Peace, Repairing Hope: Restorative Mediation an Effective Approach / Negin Tahvildary -- 14 Spaces for Action: Opportunities for Hope in Dark Times / Anna Taft -- 15 On Giving Birth to Hope in Darkness / Andrew Fiala -- Index.

The papers collected here apply the insights of the philosophy of peace to contemporary issues and the larger problem of what it means to have hope and to work for peace in dark times. The authors included in this volume respond to contemporary challenges posed by the Trump Era and the COVID-19 crisis. This represents a novel application and exploration of concepts and ideas found in the philosophy of peace and nonviolence. The authors elucidate the philosophy of peace and general approaches to building peace while applying these ideas to current crises. .

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