Will you be a force for unity in your life and in the world?
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Unity
A Model for Reconciliation, Peace, and Partnership
Today we live in a divided world, walking through a minefield of polarized situations. National politics are angrily split down the middle. Unions regularly report that management doesn't negotiate in good faith. The United Methodist Church recently split in two. Even homeowners' associations have become contentious. Unity: A Model for Reconciliation, Peace, and Partnership explores how reconciliation and peace have historically been restored in situations like these, and many others.
About the Author
Dr. Eric B. Dent serves as Professor and Uncommon Friends Endowed Chair in Ethics at Florida Gulf Coast University. He pursues an interdisciplinary research agenda and has published in leading journals across a wide range of fields, including leadership, consulting, philosophy, workplace spirituality, science, history, communications, psychology, education, and others.
Dr. Dent has been honored for his teaching, scholarship, and service, including two Best Paper awards at the Academy of Management Conference and North Carolina’s highest designation for distinguished volunteer service, bestowed by the governor.
In addition to his academic role, Dr. Dent consults with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, and is a frequent invited speaker to national audiences. Before earning his Ph.D., he served as a corporate vice president in the financial services industry. He began his career as a computer scientist at IBM.
About Unity
Are there deep divisions in your family, country, neighborhood, or workplace? Unity: A Model for Reconciliation, Peace, and Partnership offers a historically grounded and forward-looking examination of how deeply divided people have achieved meaningful unity during times of extreme polarization-and what those lessons mean for today.
At a moment when political, racial, economic, and cultural divisions threaten democracy and social cohesion, the book argues that unity is not naïve idealism, but a disciplined practice rooted in moral courage, personal responsibility, and inclusive engagement.
Drawing on the largely overlooked global work of the Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement from the 1930s through the postwar era, the book documents remarkable cases of reconciliation across seemingly impossible divides: former enemies after war, labor and management, colonizers and colonized, and racial and ideological opponents across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the United States.
Its central thesis is that lasting unity begins when individuals and institutions commit to changing themselves first. Through truth-telling, apology, and inclusion-rather than coercion or shaming-divided groups can forge trust and partnership. Will you be a force for unity in your life and in the world?
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