Life-Coherent Peace
An Autopoietic, Life-Value, Anti-Violence Framework for Human and Planetary FlourishingBy DR. Bichara Sahely
Length54m
About this audiobook
Life-Coherent Peace invites listeners to rethink peace beyond the absence of war. A society may be free of open conflict while still disabling life through hunger, ecological destruction, loneliness, humiliation, preventable disease, and structural injustice. Drawing on John McMurtry’s life-value ethics, Humberto Maturana’s biology of autopoiesis and love, and Johan Galtung’s theory of direct, structural, and cultural violence, Dr. Bichara Sahely develops a framework for peace as organized life-enablement.
This audiobook asks a simple but demanding question: do our institutions, economies, cultures, technologies, and relationships enable or disable the capacities of living beings to think, feel, act, relate, and flourish within the planetary conditions that make life possible?
Peace, in this view, is not passive order. It is life-coherent coexistence.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePhilosophy, Politics and Government
Length54 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Opening Note to the Listener
3How to Listen to This Audiobook
4Chapter One: From Non-War to Life-Coherence
5Chapter Two: The Life-Value Criterion and the Biology of Value
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6Chapter Three: Structural Coupling and Structural Violence
7Chapter Four: Languaging, Cultural Violence, and the Worlds We Bring Forth
8Chapter Five: Love, Civil Commons, and the Risk of Bureaucratic Reduction
9Chapter Six: Life-Blind Organization as Organized Disvalue
10Chapter Seven: Five Domains of Life-Coherent Transformation
11Health
12Economy
13Education
14Ecology
15Governance
16Chapter Eight: Competing Life-Needs and the Problem of Tragic Choice
17Chapter Nine: The Eight Movements of Life-Coherent Arbitration
18Chapter Ten: The Life-Coherence Test
19Chapter Eleven: Water, Privatization, and the Civil Commons Alternative
20Life-capacity
21Means of life
22Civil commons
23Violence
24Ecological life-ground
25Relational domain
26Value sequence
27Conflict handling
28Two Ways of Governing Water
29Chapter Twelve: Limits and Safeguards
30Chapter Thirteen: A Secular Covenant for Life on Earth
31Closing Reflection
32Acknowledgements
33Intellectual Sources
34About the Author
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