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Item Ambidextrous Civil Military Relations: Integrating the Two Hands of Peace(2016-01-27) Shields, Patricia M.In January of 2016, Patricia M. Shields, the editor of Armed Forces & Society, addressed the Association of Civil Military Studies of Israel at their bi-annual conference at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee. The following is the text of her speech. The speech has been slightly modified to incorporate references.Item Building the Fabric of Peace: Jane Addams and Peaceweaving(Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, 2016-01) Shields, Patricia M.Jane Addams (1860- 1935) is noted for her leadership in the social settlement movement and her peace activism. Addams drew upon lessons from Christ and the early Christians to develop her ideas of peace. This article examines Addams feminist notion of an active, positive peace (peace weaving) through the lenses of key bible verses with themes including, love your neighbor, love your enemy, care for children and forgive.Item Cassandra and Bread Givers: The College Speeches of Jane Addams(Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2019-05-15) Shields, Patricia M.This Blog for the Ramapo College Jane Addams Papers Project highlights Addams’s college speeches. In both, Bread Givers and Cassandra, Addams speculates about the future roles and challenges of educated women.Item Classical Pragmatism: Roots and Promise for a PA Feminist Theory(Taylor & Francis, 2005-06) Shields, Patricia M.In a recent "Administrative Theory & Praxis article, Janet Hutchinson and Hollie Mann (2004, p. 79) noted, "there is as yet no defining body of feminist theory in our field." They trace the lack of feminist theory to the historic exclusion of women from positions of power and the liberal, narrow, dominant model of administration in public administration that reduces the potential for ongoing feminist praxis. While the liberal historic concern with equity has led to many advances for women in public administration, it has restricted the creative development of a feminist PA theory. In response to these conditions Hutchinson and Mann (2004, p. 92) argue that PA scholars should "develop a body of feminist theories as well as a distinctly feminist praxis to add to the growing body of theoretical work in other disciplines." Classical American Pragmatism is an untapped philosophy already linked to feminist discourse that can add and enrich PA feminist theory and praxis. This brief paper explores how classical pragmatism, a respected, comprehensive philosophy developed by Jane Addams, John Dewey and George Herbert Mead, can contribute to defining a richer feminist PA theory. Over the last decade interest in classical pragmatism has grown. Both feminist philosophers and public administration scholars have sought to recover and extend classical pragmatism in their respective fields. Classical pragmatism, feminism and public administration are linked historically through the nexus of Hull-House. This paper highlights the connection between pragmatism, PA theory and feminist theory. It calls on PA feminist to explore these connections further.Item Democracy and Jane Addams's Social Ethics through the Lenses of Pragmatism and Hickman's Technology(2022-03-24) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation uses the lenses of pragmatism to explore participatory democracy and the social ethics of Jane Addams. It applies these concepts using examples from public administration. The contributions of Larry Hickman inform the discussion throughout.Item Exploring Civil-Military Relations: Janowitz, Pragmatism and Peace Support Operations(2011-01-28) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation was prepared for the Civil-Military Relations Peace Support Operations Seminar Series at the Swedish National Defense College (2011). It examines the pragmatism informed, civil military relations perspective of Morris Janowitz and places it into the context of contemporary peace support operations.Item Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams's Legacy(2019-03-29) Shields, Patricia M.; Weber, Eric Thomas; Cashio, AnthonyIn episode 84 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Dr. Eric Thomas Weber and Dr. Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Patricia Shields on “Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams's Legacy.”Item Hiding in Plain Sight: Positive Peace – A Missing, Critical Immeasurable in PA Theory(2016-05-22) Rissler, Grant; Shields, Patricia M.This paper explores the notion of positive peace as applied to many aspects of public administration. The easily measured concept of “negative peace” or the absence of war dominates research in the study of peace. Positive peace, which incorporates a vision of society where justice flourishes, diversity is encouraged and conflict is transformed is a richer, yet more difficult to measure concept. In support of this argument, we begin by exploring “what is positive peace?" After exploring the concept of positive peace, we examine where we find the concept hidden in existing Public Administration theory: in the writings of Jane Addams, traditional PA rubrics like POSDCORB, and in Harmon and McSwite's proposed ethic of relationship. Third, we explore how the concepts and skills of peacebuilding could help along the public administration frontiers of social equity (Frederickson, 2005; Gooden, 2014) and complex collaboration (O'Leary et al., 2010). Finally, we briefly review several ways that public administration concepts and skills could help peacebuilding as a field.Item History of Women's Reform Movement(2019-01-31) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation looks at the history of women's reform movements mostly in the US. It focuses on three important women, Florence Nightingale, Mary Livermore and Jane Addams. It incorporates the British and US Sanitary Commission, the Settlement movement, and the Women's Peace Movement. The Women's Suffrage, Women's Temperance and federated club activity is also discussed.Item How Jane Addams Ideas of Peace became part of a US Army War College (Parameters) Publication(2018-03-27) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation, given at the Texas State Department of Political Science, traces an intellectual journey that led to a publication in the US Army War College journal Parameters. It is the story of how ideas emerge and grow over time.Item Jane Addams and the Nobel Art of Peaceweaving(2023-03) Shields, Patricia M.; Soeters, JosephThis presentation explores ”Peaceweaving”, Jane Addams notion of positive peace. Peaceweaving entails building the fabric of peace by emphasizing relationships. These positive relationships are built by working on practical problems, avoiding rigid moralisms/moral chauvinism, embracing perplexity, engaging people widely with sympathetic understanding while recognizing that progress is measured by the welfare of the vulnerable. This concept is imbedded in Addams’s feminist pragmatism. We apply pragmatism and her notion of peaceweaving to contemporary UN peacekeeping operations.Item Jane Addams' Social Ethics(2018-04-24) Shields, Patricia M.This video presents a penetrating examination of the legendary Jane Addams' view of social ethics.Item Jane Addams's Peaceweaving: A Feminist Response to Paternalism, Militarism, and World War I(2017-03-24) Shields, Patricia M.Keynote address given at the Women and Gender Research Collaborative Annual Conference. Texas State University, March 2017.Item Jane Addams: Democratic Theorist and PeaceWeaver(2015-03-30) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation examines Jane Addams ideas of peace and summarizes the key facets of her ideas using the term "peaceweaving." Addams ideas are placed in historic context. Events and academic works that led to her Nobel Peace Prize are emphasized.Item Looking Back: How Jane Addams Challenged the Frontiers of Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Peace Studies and Philosophy - and Why it Matters Today(2017-06-02) Shields, Patricia M.This presentation discusses how Jane Addams challenged the frontiers of public administration, sociology, social work, peace studies, and philosophy and why it matters today.Item Looking Back: How Jane Addams Challenged the Frontiers of Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Peace Studies and Philosophy - and why it matters today(2017-06) Shields, Patricia M.This paper examines Jane Addams pioneering contributions to five fields. The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time when many academic and professional fields were becoming self-aware. Chicago transitioned from a physical frontier town to an intellectual frontier. Jane Addams, founder of Hull House and daughter of Chicago was a pioneer helping to build these fields. Public Administration has clear connections to social work, philosophy and sociology not so with Peace Studies. Yet public administration should be fully engaged in building the fabric of a peace-full society. Addams transforming notion of positive peace and her application of these Newer Ideals of Peace to local governance is a 21st Century PA frontier. This paper examines Addams pioneering role in philosophy, social work, sociology, peace studies and public administration. In addition, it explores the frontier of positive peace as a place of transition and transformation for public administration.Item Promoting Peace: Overcoming the Dominance of Negative Peace - Jane Addams's Peaceweaving(2017-02-28) Shields, Patricia M.This talk was presented at the Texas State Philosophy Dialogue Series panel on peace. It examined peace through the ideas of Jane Addams. Her notion of positive peace is contrasted with the dominant concept of negative peace. Her concept of peace is summarized and explained in the term peaceweaving.Item Recovering Jane Addams: Ethics, Social Work, Social Justice and Peace(2017-10-05) Shields, Patricia M.This is a presentation at the Grace Abbott School of Social Work the University of Nebraska Omaha. It examines Addams ideas of Social Ethics and Peace in the context of social work practice.Item Recovering Jane Addams: Public Administration Pioneer(2019-03-10) Shields, Patricia M.; Guy, Mary EllenThis presentation makes the case that the field of public administration should recover diverse voices from its past. It does this by showcasing Jane Addams as an unrecognized pioneer. It highlights her remarkable life and accomplishments particularly as a leader of the settlement movement and as a pragmatist, feminist philosopher. Key philosophic ideas such as participatory democracy, sympathetic understanding, social ethics, social claim, lateral progress, municipal housekeeping and positive peace are highlighted.Item The Contested Idea of Peace: A Path for Public Administration through Jane Addams(2015-03-18) Soeters, Joseph; Shields, Patricia M.Beginning with the odd finding that "peace research is just the study of war" this paper explores "positive peace" as an important yet neglected notion in public administration. It does this by examining the ideas of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams, a pioneer in public administration and peace theory. Addams feminist, pragmatist ideas of peace, which we call peaceweaving, emerged from her experience as a settlement worker in Chicago. Her ideas are placed in historical context, and applied to contemporary peace developments in Kosovo. Using her ideas lead us to a better understanding of what is going right and what is still going wrong in that complicated peace operation.