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Eleanor Roosevelt's stirring call for peace in the face of rising fascism. We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, pay for it in our own behavior and in material ways. In 1938, with fascist regimes gaining strength and global tensions on the rise, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt published a visionary plan for achieving world peace. This Troubled World offers a clear-eyed assessment of the political climate in the aftermath of World...
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Combining peace and conflict studies with public administration research, Divided Cities critically investigates the roles of public administration and civil servants in resolving issues that are potentially conflictual in divided societies. Zooming in on nine cities with very different legacies and democratic development - Copenhagen, Malmö, Toronto, Belfast, Mostar, Cape Town, Mitrovica, Nicosia, and Jerusalem - the contributors analyze the tools,...
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In recent years, a burgeoning literature has explored the strategic advantages of using nonviolent resistance to achieve positive political outcomes, such as regime change and democratization. Yet, despite one-fifth of largescale nonviolent campaigns occurring during the course of a civil war, we know little about the effect nonviolent resistance might have on the transformation of armed conflict. Bringing together the previously isolated literatures...
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Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor peace, the sole and rightful property of liberals. Right? Wrong.
As Bill Kauffman makes clear, true conservatives have always resisted the imperial and military impulse: it drains the treasury, curtails domestic liberties, breaks down families, and vulgarizes culture. From the Federalists who opposed the War of 1812, to the striving of Robert Taft (known as "Mr. Republican")...
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History indicates that there are powerful routes to liberation from oppression that do not involve violence. Mohandas Gandhi called for a science of nonviolent action, one based on satyagraha, or the "insistence on truth." As Gandhi understood, nonviolent resistance is not passive, nor is it weak; rather, such action is an exercise of power. Despite the success of Gandhi's "Quit India" movement, the resources dedicated to the application of rigorous...
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This book is the product of a collective effort by some members of the Group of 78. The name of the group derives from the number of its founding members. Its activities comprise studies of and analysis of public issues which seem at the time to be of crucial importance not only to Canadians but to all the inhabitants of the planet. The issues are discussed at annual conferences and some of the discussions have been edited and published. The present...
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Nul traité de paix ne peut être considéré comme tel, si l'on s'y réserve secrètement quelque sujet de recommencer la guerre.
Ce traité dont le contenu constitue les prémices de la théorie de la paix démocratique, eu un retentissement immédiat dans toute l'Europe suite à sa publication en 1795. Kant y formule les conditions qui permettent de créer une paix perpétuelle, un simple traité signé entre deux états qui était en guerre ne...
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Le don au coeur de la cohésion sociale et de l'échange.
Le don est devenu un concept à la mode. Il n'existe pas un domaine de la vie en société o il n'a pas apporté une vision nouvelle: économie, entreprise, santé, aide internationale, relations intergénérationnelles, numérique... Le don semble pouvoir agir et donner des solutions partout. Mais pour comprendre ce phénomène, peut-on ignorer les travaux de Marcel Mauss qui, maintenant...
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Winning by Process asks why the peace process stalled in the decade from 2011—2021 despite a liberalizing regime, a national ceasefire agreement, and multilateral peace dialogue between the state and ethnic minorities.
Winning by Process argues that stalled conflicts are more than pauses or stalemates. "Winning by process," as opposed to winning by war or agreement, represents the state's ability to gain advantage by manipulating the rules of negotiation,...
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Ce pamphlet a pour but de lever toutes équivoques entre l'autonomie et l'autochtonie
L'autochtonie est propice, dans sa définition comme du point de vue de sa finalité, à des dérives de type ethnique, xénophobe ou raciste. L'auteur cherche en effet à clarifier sa vision autonomiste ou fédéraliste pour le Sénégal, en tant qu'une formidable alternative à la logique de l'indépendance pure et simple de la Casamance, en proie à une rébellion...
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The Western Sahara conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and intractable struggles facing the international community. Pitting local nationalist determination against Moroccan territorial ambitions, the dispute is further complicated by regional tensions with Algeria and the geo-strategic concerns of major global players, including the United States, France, and the territory's former colonial ruler, Spain. Since the early 1990s, the...
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"Winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research" "Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Andreas Wimmer is the Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University. His books include Waves of War and Ethnic Boundary Making.
A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building
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14) Kidnapped Asylum
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Political activist, Christel Kisongo, worked for the Paix Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo until the disappearance of his UN colleagues, Caleb and Sara. Promoting peaceful resolution to conflict was his life's calling - until he had to flee his country, with nothing but his backpack. Once catapulted into the quest for asylum in the United States, will he be crushed in the immigration process or will he survive the tumultuous political...
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"Manifeste pour gagner la paix – Des Valois à Poutine" explore la culture de la guerre qui s'est imposée à la civilisation de la paix, en février 2022. Il constate que, malgré de nombreuses victoires militaires, la paix a rarement triomphé. Aussi, il alerte contre les régimes totalitaires qui s'efforcent de prendre le guidon de l'histoire tout en soulevant deux interrogations : quelles sont les exigences de la paix ? Comment s'inspirer de...
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Minding our own business, while leaving other peoples to mind theirs, was the basis of the United States' successful foreign policy from 1815 to 1910. Best described in the works of John Quincy Adams and carried out by his successors throughout the nineteenth century, this is the foreign policy by which America grew prosperous and in peace. This policy also remains the commonsense philosophy of most Americans today.
America's Rise and Fall among Nations...
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These essays examine the dark side of contemporary India, looking closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism, and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that projects itself as the world's largest democracy. Arundhati Roy writes about how the combination of Hindu nationalism and India's neo-liberal economic reforms, which began their journey together in the early 1990s, are turning India into a police state.
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This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Time as "arguably the most important intellectual alive."
In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses his views on the "war on terror" and the rise of neoliberalism, the refugee crisis and cracks in the European Union, prospects for a just peace in Israel/Palestine,...
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