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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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The Peace Corps is a great symbol of assistance around the world - an opportunity for men and women of all ages to help those less fortunate. Many people want to join the Peace Corps, and more than 160,000 people have since it was established by President Kennedy in 1961. But many more wonder what the Peace Corps involves and what they need to know before they can volunteer for this life-changing service. This informative book will guide you through...
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GSS is World Beyond War's effort to describe an alternative security system – one in which peace is pursued by peaceful means – to replace the present war system. It describes the "hardware" of creating a peace system, and the "software" – the values and concepts – necessary to operate a peace system and the means to spread these globally. Key sections include:
* Why is an Alternative Global Security System both Desirable and Necessary?
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A provocative approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-one state for two peoples-that is sure to touch nerves on all sides
The Israeli-Palestinian war has been called the world's most intractable conflict. It is by now a commonplace that the only way to end the violence is to divide the territory in two, and all efforts at a resolution have come down to haggling over who gets what: Will Israel hand over 90 percent of the West Bank or only 60...
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Violence begets violence - so believes the majority of people around the world who have stood up in protest against war. Stop the Next War Now is a reflective look and call to action to end violence, by acclaimed peace activists, experts, and visionaries, including Eve Ensler, Barbara Lee, Arianna Huffington, Janeane Garafalo, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many more. The book shares expert insight on the issues and powers-that-be that encourage...
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Peacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reconciliation Studies.
This highly topical book covers the latest developments and issues in the discipline of peacebuilding and reconciliation, using different global case studies of societies experiencing or emerging out of violent conflict. It brings together a range of scholars, including many from the global south,...
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Most regions of the world are plagued by conflicts that are made insoluble by a confluence of complex threads from history, geography, politics, and culture. These "frozen conflicts" defy conflict management interventions by both internal and external agents and institutions. Worse, they constantly threaten to extend beyond their local geographies, as in the terrorist bombings in Boston by ethnic Chechens, or to escalate from skirmishes to full-scale...
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This memoir relays the experiences of Paul Kuehnert, a Midwestern teenager in the late 1960's who tried to follow his conscience at the height of the Vietnam War. After a little more than a year of increasing involvement in the burgeoning mass movement against the war, he determined that his conscience demanded total non-cooperation with the draft. He took the path of resistance, declaring publicly to his church community that he would not register...
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Gozar de una Colombia en paz es, tal vez, uno de los pocos, acaso el único proyecto en común de los colombianos. El Acuerdo de paz firmado en 2016 inaugura un nuevo relato nacional en el que la paz es denuncia, propuesta e imaginación de vida que crea, inventa, controvierte e incomoda.
En este libro, las artes documentan el hacer las paces en la Colombia del siglo xxi. Las diversas experiencias evocadas vislumbran vías inéditas de restauración...
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Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts. The author reestablishes early American statecraft's understanding of peace-what...
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In this unique volume, leading analysts from the Red Cross, Middle East Institute and Refugee Affairs - many of whom have been actively involved in past negotiations on this issue - provide an overview of the key dimensions of the Palestinian refugee problem. Mindful of the sensitive and contested nature of the subject, none offers a single solution. Instead, each contribution summarises and synthesises the existing scholarly and governmental work...
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Weaving Peace: Essays on Peace, Governance and Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa provides a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on issues of peace, governance, and conflict transformation by academics and practitioners from eight partner institutions of the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa. It is an essential tool for scholars and policymakers seeking contextual clarity...
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In November 2007, Adam Moore was conducting fieldwork in Mostar when the southern Bosnian city was rocked by two days of violent clashes between Croat and Bosniak youth. It was not the city's only experience of ethnic conflict in recent years. Indeed, Mostar's problems are often cited as emblematic of the failure of international efforts to overcome deep divisions that continue to stymie the postwar peace process in Bosnia. Yet not all of Bosnia has...
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If you think world peace is a naive concept, Paul K. Chappell's very existence will give you pause. It's not enough to say that Chappell – a WestPoint graduate and Iraq War veteran – is a soldier turned peace leader. Experiencing a traumatic upbringing and growing up mixed race in Alabama, he's a young man forged by violence, rage, and racism into a living weapon for peace. By unlocking the mysteries of human nature, he shows how the muscles of...
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Most approaches to peace building have either ignored or marginalized issues of gender and Women. Women consistently remain a minority of participants in peace building projects; they receive less attention than men in peace building policies; and gender analysis rarely informs peace building strategies. This is despite the many Uni ted Nat ions and European Commission resolutions which, for more than a decade, have criticized such marginalization...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of The Arbinger Institute's The Anatomy of Peace by Instaread Preview: The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict, Second Edition, is an expanded version, including additional appendices, of a successful 2006 publication by the Arbinger Institute. The book, which uses fictional characters to illustrate its points, details strategies for defusing political, personal, and business conflicts. It argues that conflict...
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Teniendo en cuenta el contexto en el que se ha encontrado inmersa la sociedad colombiana: más de sesenta años de violencias de diversa índole que dejaron profundas huellas en la cultura, en las formas como actuamos en la cotidianidad, en las relaciones de convivencia, en las maneras como dirimimos los conflictos, en las condiciones como nos relacionamos con la naturaleza, este libro aborda la educación para la paz no solo como una forma de encarar...
18) Building Peace, Creating Conflict?: Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peacebuilding
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One of the most significant challenges facing the international community today is how to stabilize and rebuild societies emerging from civil wars, and this book, which includes both theoretical discussions and empirical applications, considers the various factors of peacebuilding. As it addresses several pertinent academic debates-relating to international interventions and local ownership, international and local conceptions of gender equality,...
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La Cátedra Universitaria para la Cultura de Paz-que fue creada por la comunidad académica del Centro Universitario de Tonalá el 11 de octubre del 2019 con el objetivo de transformar la cultura hacia una visión de paz-, ha entendido muy bien a lo largo de estos primeros años de vida, que dicha transformación no se logrará sin realizar esfuerzos conjuntos por visibilizar los problemas que algunos filósofos, sociólogos y antropólogos nos han...
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War Made Easy cuts through the dense web of spin to probe and scrutinize the key "perception management" techniques that have played huge roles in the promotion of American wars in recent decades. This guide to disinformation analyzes American military adventures past and present to reveal striking similarities in the efforts of various administrations to justify, and retain, public support for war. War Made Easy is essential reading. It documents...
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