Peace by Peace

"Lisa Ellen Silvestri's Peace by Peace is uplifting from start to finish as it reveals the potential of practical wisdom for concocting a brighter future."—Robert L. Ivie, author of Dissent from War

"It will be a great thing if this delightful book comes into your life—like having your wisest aunt over for tea. Peace by Peace has ideas we all need to live a moral life in crisis times."—Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It

"Silvestri revitalizes the rhetorical concept of phronesis to show how individuals and communities might contemplate, interpret, and imagine the challenges of building futures for human flourishing."—Quarterly Journal of Speech

"I cannot begin to imagine how Silvestri ever discovered such a wildly diverse set of little-known social inventors dispersed across the globe. Not only did she locate them, she ventures and sustains a conception of phronesis and peace-building that adroitly frames their disparate, seemingly dissimilar projects as profoundly similar."—Rhetoric Review