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Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau
Adekeye Adabajo (2002)
Among all of Africa's troubled regions, West Africa has gone the furthest toward establishing a security mechanism to manage its own conflicts.
An Intimate History of Killing
Joanna Bourke (1999)
The myths, mechanisms, and madness of war.
Cry Out: Poets Protest the War
George Braziller, ed. (2003)
Eleven acclaimed poets protesting the war lyrically in Vermont.
The Fifty Years’ War
Ahron Bregman (1999)
Analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
DC Poets Against the War
Sarah Browning (2003)
Poets aged 10 to 80 protesting the war in poetic form.
Speaking Peace: Women's Voices From Kashmir
Urvashi Butalia, ed. (2002)
Reflects the range of women's experiences in the Kashmir conflict.
Who's Calling the Shots?
Nancy Carlsson Paige and Diane Levin (1990)
Responding effectively to children's fascination with war play and war toys.
Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left
Ward Churchill (2003)
A critique of nonviolent resistance.
Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Michael Collopy and Jason Gardner, eds, (2000)
Photography and essays documenting 75 influential individuals from Carlos Santana and Thich Naht Hahn through Arun Ghandi and Coretta Scott King.
Nomadology: the War Machine
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1986)
How nomads created the war machine.
Blood Rites
Barbara Ehrenreich (1997)
The origins and history of the passions of war.
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives
Cynthia Enloe (2000)
The different roles played by women and imposed on women in the war economy.
A Peace Reader
Joseph P. Fahey and Richard Armstrong, eds. (1992)
Compilation of essays and articles on non-violence and conflict resolution.
Women and War
Daniela Gioseffi, ed. (2003)
International anthology of writings from antiquity to present.
The End of Yugoslavia
Misha Glenny (1996)
Chronicles the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003
Stanley Greene (2003)
Photographs of the conflict in the Caucasus.
After War
Lori Grinker (2004)
Photographs and interviews of veterans from many different conflicts.
Peace Education
Ian Harris and Mary Lee Morrison (2003)
The goals and key issues of peace education.
Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul
Ron Haviv (2002)
Photos of the fall of the Taliban.
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges (2003)
A war correspondent reflects on that which has lured and revolted him and us.
The Art of Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict and Reconciliation
Jeffrey Hopkins, ed. (2000)
Nine peace prize winners on peace, conflict, and reconciliation
Breaking Spears and Mending Hearts: Peacemakers and Restorative Justice in Bougainville
Pat Howley (2002)
The use of traditional peacemaking in the aftermath of a civil war.
The Future of Peace
Scott Hunt (2002)
Interviews with leading peacemakers.
Women and the Politics of Peace
Biljana Kasic, ed. (1997)
Proceedings from an international women’s forum in Zagreb in 1996.
Modern Hatreds
Stuart Kaufman (2001)
The symbolic politics of ethnic war.
Child Soldier: Fighting for My Life
China Keitetsi (2002)
Memoir of a young girl who gets caught up in Uganda’s civil wars.
Voices for Peace: An Anthology
Anna Kieran, ed. (1997)
Annie Lenox, Stephen Jay Gould, and others plump for peace.
Nonviolence in America
Staughton Lynd, ed. (1995)
I’d Rather Teach Peace
Colman McCarthy (2002)
Memoir of one of the great peace educators.
Making Peace: Healing a Violent World
Carolyn McConnell and Sarah Van Gelder (2003)
Stories about peaceful alternatives.
Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future
Sunita Mehta, ed. (2002)
Working with and on behalf of Afghan women.
At War
Antonia Monegal (2004)
Exhibition catalog on the technology of warfare from 1900 to present.
Israel, Palestine and Peace
Amos Oz (1984)
Twelve controversial essays from the Israeli novelist.
Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Fiona Ross (2003)
Examines the achievements and limitations of testimony and human rights discourse as measures of suffering and recovery.
War Talk
Arundhati Roy (2003)
On the loneliness of Noam Chomsky and other topics.
The End of the Peace Process
Edward Said (2001)
A critique of the Oslo agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This is War
Moises Saman (2001)
Photos of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
2/15: The Day the World Said No to War
Barbara Sauerman, ed. (2003)
Pictures and text about the largest global protest in world history.
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Jonathan Schell (2003)
Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds. (1997)
The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution
Andrew Bard Schmookler (1995)
A provocative examination of the role of violent power in social evolution.
The Butter Battle Book
Dr. Seuss (1984)
The Cold War as only the good doctor could describe it.
The Politics of Nonviolent Action
Gene Sharp (1973)
Three volumes; chronicles more than 200 examples of nonviolent action throughout history
At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey
Claude Anshin Thomas (2004)
Memoir of Vietnam war and its aftermath that culminates in the author’s ordination as a monk in the Vietnamese “engaged Buddhism” tradition under Thich Nath Hahn, with his call to daily contemplative practice.
The Lotus Unleashed : The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964- 1966
Robert Topmiller (2002)
WarZones
Vancouver Art Forum Society (2000)
Exhibition series of photos examining the memories of and ideologies surrounding war.
Rising Up and Rising Down
William Vollmann (2004)
The 700 or so page distillation of 7 volumes devoted to a history of war and violence.
Peace is the Way
Walter Wink, ed. (2000)
Writings from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Howard Zinn on War
Howard Zinn (2001)
The U.S. historian reflects on World War II, Vietnam, Iraq, and Kosovo.
Artists in Times of War
Howard Zinn (2003)
More reflections on the social responsibility of artists.
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