The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace Value Inquiry Book Series Founding Editor Robert Ginsberg Executive Editor Leonidas Donskis VOLUME 282 Philosophy of Peace Editor Danielle Poe The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/pop The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace Essays on Ecology, Nature, Nonviolence, and Peace Edited by Andrew Fiala LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover Illustration: Yosemite National Park, photo by Andrew Fiala. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015942366 issn 0929-8436 isbn 978-90-04-29954-2 (paperback) isbn 978-90-04-29959-7 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. 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This book is printed on acid-free paper. &OLPEWKHPRXQWDLQVDQGJHWWKHLUJRRGWLGLQJV 1DWXUH¶VSHDFHZLOOIORZLQWR\RXDVVXQVKLQHIORZVLQWRWUHHV -RKQ0XLU CONTENTS Preface Andrew Fiala 1 ONE INTRODUCTION: Violence and Nonviolence in the Environmental Movement 7 ANDREW FIALA Two Return to Earth: A New Natural Philosophy? 19 ANDREW FITZ-GIBBON Three Reflections on Violence 31 MICHAEL ALLEN FOX Four On War and the Environment: A Proposed Revision in the Ethics of Restrain 41 LLOYD STEFFEN Five Negative Impacts of Militarism on the Environment 51 WILLIAM GAY Six A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Nature of Human Dwelling 61 WENDY C. 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