Soldiers of Peace, by West Point graduate and Iraq War veteran Paul K.
Chappell, is the sixth book in his seven-book Road to Peace series.
The titles in this important series can be read in any order. All are
about waging peace, ending war, the art of living, and what it means to
be human. In a world where so many "solutions" deal with surface
symptoms rather than the root causes of our problems, Chappell's books
provide real guidance we can follow to change ourselves and change the
world for the better.
In Soldiers of Peace, Paul discusses how to wield the weapon of
nonviolence with maximum force so that we can understand, confront, and
heal our personal and societal wounds.
To create realistic peace we must be as well trained in waging peace as
soldiers are in waging war. Chappell discusses how our misunderstanding
of peace and violence originate from our misunderstanding about reality
and the human condition itself.
This book offers a new paradigm in human understanding by dispelling
popular myths and revealing timeless truths about the reality of
struggle, rage, trauma, empathy, the limitations of violence, the power
of nonviolence, and the skills needed to create lasting peace. Through
the educational initiative of peace literacy and the metaphor of the
constellation of peace, Soldiers of Peace offers a practical framework
so that all of us can apply this new paradigm to our daily lives, and
therefore create realistic peace within our friendships, families,
workplaces, communities, nations, and the entire world.
In a time of increased strife and violence in our society, this book is
more critically needed than ever.
