The Many Faceted Nature of a Crisis: Ecological, Economic, Marketing, Cultural and Basic Human Values

Abstract

This study is directly concerned with Buddhist contributions to environmental responsibility as ethics and culture and then link environmentalism with peace studies and most important to realise that we are confronted with a multi-faceted crisis. In fact, it has been mentioned that “peace researches now agree that peace is no more a stable state to be reached at the end of the tunnel, but a composite of dynamic interactions demanding continued striving because of the constantly changing conditions of all the forces/factors involved “Yeh, 2006).

There are many dimensions for “Peace Studies” and from a Buddhist perspective, peaceful coexistence between the human kind and the natural world provide the intrinsic metaphors for a holistic peace, and in search of an ideal beyond human conflict and violence, and economic imperialism, Bhutan provides the lasting images of integrating many lamps but one light—the best model of “Cultural Environmentalism”. Bhutan typifies a find blend of the environment and human peace in harmony.