Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life (ePub)

Garrett Thomson is Chief Executive Officer of the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP) and Professor at the College of Wooster where he holds the Compton Chair of Philosophy. He is the author or co-author of 20 books, including On the Meaning of Life, Needs and Bacon to Kant. He co-edited the six-volumes of the Longman Standard History of Philosophy and is the co-author of Rethinking Secondary Education: A Human-Centred Approach and Understanding Peace Holistically.

Scherto Gill is Senior Fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP) Research Institute, Brighton, UK, Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. She is also Board Member of Rising Global Peace Forum and Trustee of the Spirit of Humanity Forum. Scherto writes about peace, dialogue, education, and narrative research. Her most recent publications include Understanding Peace Holistically, Peacefulness: Being Peace and Making Peace, Education as Humanisation and Narrative Pedagogy.

Ivor Goodson has worked in universities in England, Canada, and the USA, and has held visiting positions in many countries. He is now Research Associate at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP). Ivor has contributed over 50 books and 600 articles to the fields of education and social change. His most recent publications include The Routledge International Handbook on Narrative and Life History, Curriculum, Personal Narrative and the Social Future and Developing Narrative Theory: Life Histories and Personal Representation.