HRH the Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at our World (London: Harper Collins, 2010).

This was the book which initiated the contemporary interest in Harmony, written by the then Prince of Wales together with Tony Juniper, who was Director of Friends of the Earth UK, and Ian Skelly. The English-language edition is out of print but available second-hand. We suggest www.abebooks.com or www.abebooks.co.uk. A Spanish translation was published in 2023. In her review in The Ecologist Jemima Roberts wrote that Harmony is

a soulful, impassioned plea to re-enchant ourselves with the beauty, the spirit and the underwritten ‘grammar of Nature', realigning ourselves to become a more integrated part of nature, as opposed to apart from it…. [It} reacquaints us with a sense of our collective spirit, a place that has become removed from our remote-controlled, digitally 'enhanced' worldview, dominated as it is by a mechanistic approach to natural resources. Glimpses of a satellite view saturated by the floodlights of our high-energy lives suggest this is a relationship we would do well to nurture – and with some urgency.

David Cadman and Suheil Bushrui (eds), Harmony – a Crisis of Perception, Selected Speeches and Articles by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Vol 2 (College Park, Maryland: The Center for Heritage Resource Studies, The University of Maryland, 2009).

This collection of eight speeches by the then Prince of Wales reveals ideas which were to be expanded in his book, Harmony. It is currently unavailable for purchase but can be traced through libraries.

Nicholas Campion (ed.), The Harmony Debates: Exploring a practical philosophy for a sustainable future (Lampeter: Sophia Centre Press, 2020).

This is a definitive collection of forty-two chapters on the history, theory and practice of Harmony, written by academics and practitioners, some specially commissioned, others adapted from events held at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and from the Harmony conference held by the Sustainable Food Trust at Llandovery in 2019. The book is published by the Sophia Centre Press in partnership with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.

The book ranges across a wide range of philosophical, spiritual and religious topics, ancient and modern, as well as practical applications in education, the arts, dance, sculpture and music, food and farming, business and the economy, community cohesion and the urban environment, politics and conflict resolution.

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The book is available for purchase but individual chapters are also available for download here.

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Harmony: A New Way of Looking at and Learning About our World: a Teachers’ Guide (The Harmony Project, 2020).

With a foreword by the then Prince of Wales, the Harmony Teachers’ Guide provides inspiration and practical information for schools, MATs, teachers and other educators who are looking to apply Nature’s principles of Harmony to their own practice.

The guide is available for purchase directly from the Harmony Project here

Chenyang Li, Sai Hank Kwok and Dascha Düring, Harmony in Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Introduction (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).

He (和), or harmony, has traditionally been a central concept in Chinese thought, and to this day continues to shape the way in which people in China and East Asia think about ethics and politics. Yet, there is no systematic and comprehensive introduction of harmony as has been variously articulated in different Chinese schools. This edited volume aims to fill this gap. The individual contributions elaborate the conceptions of harmony as these were exemplified in central Chinese schools of thought, including Daoism, Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism, Buddhism, and trace their impact on contemporary Chinese philosophy.

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Chenyang Li and Dascha Düring, The Virtue of Harmony (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).

The thirteen chapters in this edited volume comprise the first multicultural and multidisciplinary volume to study harmony as a virtue’. The book covers a variety of cultural traditions, including the Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Judaist, Greek, Christian, Islamic, African, and Native American, and traditions, and ranges across different disciplinary approaches, including philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, psychology, and political theory. The book is available as a single volume or as individual chapters as paid-for PDFs.

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Chenyang Li and Dascha Düring (eds), Philosophy of harmony: East and West, Journal of East West Thought, special edition, June 2020, volume 10 number 2.

This is a special issue of the Journal of East-West Thought guest-edited by Chenyang Li and Dascha During, with a range of papers which are essential for our understanding of philosophical traditions of Harmony. The whole issue is downloadable here.

Julia Tao, Anthony B. L. Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds), Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond (London: Routledge, 2010).

Harmony has become a major challenge for modern governance in the twenty-first century because of the multi-religious, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character of our increasingly globalized societies. Governments all over the world are facing growing pressure to integrate the many diverse elements and subcultures which make up modern pluralistic societies. This book examines the idea of harmony, and its place in politics and governance, both in theory and practice, in Asia, the West and elsewhere. It explores and analyses the meanings, mechanisms, dimensions and methodologies of harmony as a normative political ideal in both Western and Asian philosophical traditions.

For details please see here.