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Race Conflicts and Discrimination as a Challenge to Peace Leadership: Principles to Observe and a Case Study of Success
Evolution of Peace Leadership and Practical Implications (2022)
  • Vernon Damani Johnson, Western Washington University
Abstract
This chapter explores racial conflict and peace leadership in the United States. It places the alleviation of racial inequality within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2017).  It offers a model developed by Johnson and Benslimane (2017) for race relations and national identity in social movements in the United States. The model categorizes social movements on a continuum from white to multiracial nationalism, identifies the latter as anti-racist, and argues that anti-racist organizing is necessary to achieve racial peace. The model is applied to a case from Whatcom County in the state of Washington. In that instance the Indigenous Lummi Nation collaborated with a regional environmental organization, RE-Sources for Sustainable Community, to defeat the building of a port to export coal from the United States to the Far East. It concludes positing that this model for anti-racist organizing can be applied globally.
Keywords
  • nationalism,
  • anti-racism,
  • multiracial,
  • social movements,
  • Lummi Nation,
  • ReSources for Sustainable Community
Publication Date
Spring May 22, 2022
Editor
Erich Paul Schellhammer
Publisher
IGI Global Publishers
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9736-1.ch010
Citation Information
Vernon Damani Johnson. "Race Conflicts and Discrimination as a Challenge to Peace Leadership: Principles to Observe and a Case Study of Success" Hershey, PA 17033, USAEvolution of Peace Leadership and Practical Implications (2022) p. 181 - 196
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/vernon-johnson/27/