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
We live in a world that feels perpetually divided — by politics, religion, race, and the everyday disagreements that fracture families, workplaces, and communities. In Unity, Eric B. Dent asks a deceptively simple question: has anyone actually solved this before? And if so, how?
The answer takes readers back to Moral Re-Armament (MRA), a 20th-century movement that helped reconcile some of history's deepest rifts — from postwar France and Germany, to Japan's path toward confession and apology, to racial reconciliation efforts across Africa and the American South, to labor-management conflict on factory floors. Through these case studies, Dent extracts a practical model built on inclusion, honesty, and the willingness to change yourself first, before asking anyone else to change.
Blending history, leadership biography, and organizational psychology, Unity doesn't offer a simple slogan — it offers a tested framework for how genuine reconciliation actually happens, and what today's leaders, communities, and institutions can learn from it.
Where to Buy Unity
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