https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/107 2017-07-10T08:12:17Z https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6627 Looking Back: How Jane Addams Challenged the Frontiers of Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Peace Studies and Philosophy - and why it matters today Shields, Patricia 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’s 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. This is a paper presented at the Public Administration Theory Conference. 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/6000 Hiding in Plain Sight: Positive Peace – A Missing, Critical Immeasurable in PA Theory Shields, Patricia; Rissler, Grant 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. 2016-05-22T00:00:00Z https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/5999 Building the Fabric of Peace: Jane Addams and Peaceweaving 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. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/5998 Positive Peace: Exploring the Roots and Potential for Public Administration Shields, Patricia M.; Rissler, Grant This symposium on peace examines the Judeo-Christian roots of the ideas of peace. This article introduces the symposium, further explores the notion of positive peace through the ideas of John Paul Lederach, applies the concept of positive peace to public administration and develops an agenda to integrate positive peace into PA practice and scholarship. Introduction to a special issue on peace 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z