Peace and Power: Creative Leadership for Building Community , Seventh Edition

Author(s):	Peggy L. Chinn, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut, Connecticut
Details:	ISBN-13: 9780763751258 ISBN-10:0763751251 Paperback 155 pages © 2008
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Overview

In the years since the publication of the first edition of Peace and Power, the author has refined the processes outlined in the book through her experiences in classrooms, committees, and workshops, building meaningful relationships through a nurturing and empowering leadership method. The Seventh Edition of Peace and Power benefits from these years of positive and constructive leadership experiences. Updated with practical strategies for how to share leadership responsibilities, this new edition outlines strategies for how to hold discussions that include everyone, how to make decisions that consider every point of view, and how to resolve conflict.

Readers of Peace and Power will benefit from a handbook that inspires ways of incorporating value into work, home, and community. For seven editions, nurse leaders have relied on this book to provide a hands-on guide for developing cooperative group processes and for overcoming the habits of exclusionary group interactions.

ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Peace
Chapter 3. Power
Chapter 4. Making the Commitment
Chapter 5. Foundations for Building Community
Chapter 6. Process for Gatherings
Chapter 7. Rotating Leadership and Responsibility
Chapter 8. Value-Based Decision Making
Chapter 9. Closing
Chapter 10. Conflict Transformation
Chapter 11. Period Pieces
Chapter 12. Classrooms, Committees, and Institutional Constraints

ShowAbout the Author(s)

Peggy L. Chinn, PhD, RN, FAAN-Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut, Connecticut

Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Connecticut. Her BS in nursing is from the University of Hawaii, and Master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Utah. She is the founding Editor of Advances in Nursing Science, which since 1978 has been a premier journal publishing cutting-edge scholarship in nursing. She authors books and journal articles on nursing theory, feminism and nursing, the art of nursing, and nursing education. She has been involved in community organizations and projects throughout her adult life, focusing on services for women and support for women’s arts. Her current focus for activism is the Nurse Manifest Project, a web-based project (www.nursemanifest.com) to inspire grass-roots action by nurses to shape the future of nursing and health care.

Her book, Peace and Power: Building Communities for the Future has been used internationally by women's peace groups, nursing groups, hospital committees, church and community groups to foster their growth towards cooperative, egalitarian ways of working together.

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