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Creating the Third Force

Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking

by Maureen P. Flaherty, Lobar Azizova, Nodira Azizova, Bruce Barnes, Paul Cormier, Ali Gohar, George Emile Irani, Marianne Kamp, Marion J. Kiprop, Sandra Krahn0, Grace Kyoon-Achan1, J. P. Linstroth2, Federico V. Magdalena3, Javier Mignone4, Joshia Osamba5, Yogendra P. Paneru6, Everard Phillips7, Christy Reed8, Cathy Rocke9, Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe0, Martha Maria Wospakrik1, Zulfiya Tursunova2, John Harold Gómez Vargas3, Flora Zaharia4, Roger Mac Ginty5, Lisa Schirch6, Hamdesa Tuso7 ...

Series series Peace and Conflict Studies
The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal rituals. Neither did indigenous forms of peacemaking fit the conception of modernization and ... Read more

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The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal rituals. Neither did indigenous forms of peacemaking fit the conception of modernization and
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Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies

Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

by Ousmane Bakary Bâ, Thomas Boudreau, Jason J. Campbell, Paul Cormier, Nathan C. Funk, Johan Galtung, Nancy Hansen, Sherrill Hayes, Myrtle Hill, Peter Karari, Neil H. Katz, Peter Kellett, Alka Kumar, Brenda LeFrançois, Andrea Levy, Marie Olson Lounsbery, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Amos Nadan, Robin Neustaeter, Frederic Pearson, Jean Poitras, Jodi Dueck-Read, Brian Rice, Anna Snyder, Arnaud Stimec, Chuck Thiessen, Hamdesa Tuso, Jean-Guy Vaillancourt, Christina J. Woolner ...

Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to ... Read more

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Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to
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Peace on Earth

The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies

by John Perry, S. I. Keethaponcalan, Kristen Lundquist, Hien Vu, Margaret Mitchell Armand, S. K. Moore, Chuck Thiessen, Lois Edmund, Harry Anastasiou, Vernie Davis, Min Wang, Nathan Funk, Klaus Klostermaier, Katharina Bitzker, Chris Seiple, Deanna Armbruster, Yueh-Ting Lee, Ismael Muvingi, Christopher Hrynkow, Paul Nicolas Cormier, Charles Egerton, David Creamer, Vern Neufeld Redekop, Honggang Yang, Michael Lerner, Mohammed Abu-Nimer ...

Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view ... Read more

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Peace on Earth: The Role of Religion in Peace and Conflict Studies provides a critical analysis of faith and religious institutions in peacebuilding practice and pedagogy. The work captures the synergistic relationships among faith traditions and how multiple approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding result in a creative process that has the potential to achieve a more detailed view
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Gender and Peacebuilding

All Hands Required

by Celia Cook-Huffman, Nancy Hansen, Anna Snyder, Joey Sprague, Maria Cheung, Patlee Creary, Shirley Graham, Tuula Heinonen, Roberta Hunte, Régine Uwibereyeho King, Oksana Kis, Angela J. Lederach, Lisa McLean, Monica McWilliams, Robert C. Mizzi, Katerina Standish, Robin L. Turner, Sinéad Walsh, Franke Wilmer, María Lucía Zapata, Galia Golan ...

Series series Peace and Conflict Studies
The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus, women and men experience most of the world in very different ways according ... Read more

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The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus, women and men experience most of the world in very different ways according
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The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

by Erich Fromm ...

A study of aggression from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom ."Rich and provocative . . . a major book from the pen of a major writer." — The Washington Post Book WorldThroughout history, humans have sh... ... Read more

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A study of aggression from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom ."Rich and provocative . . . a major book from the pen of a major writer." — The Washington Post Book WorldThroughout history, humans have sh...
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The Nonviolence Handbook

A Guide for Practical Action

by Michael N. Nagler Ph.D. ...

“Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes. Here he offers a step-by-step guide to creatively using nonviolence to confront any problem and to build change movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society. ... Read more

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“Nonviolence is not the recourse of the weak but actually calls for an uncommon kind of strength; it is not a refraining from something but the engaging of a positive force,” renowned peace activist Michael Nagler writes. Here he offers a step-by-step guide to creatively using nonviolence to confront any problem and to build change movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society.
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Clooney's War

South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

by Alex Perry ...

In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

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In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved
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Reducing Gun Violence in America

Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

Edited by Daniel W. Webster, Jon S. Vernick ...

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both ... Read more

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Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both
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Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?

Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond

by Maria Eriksson Baaz, Professor Maria Stern ...

Series series Africa Now
All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings.Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections ... Read more

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All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings.Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections
... Read more
Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

by John Siko ...

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

$36.99 USD

South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the
... Read more
State of Rebellion

Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic

by Louisa Lombard ...

Series series African Arguments
Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.In this first comprehensive account of the country's recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far –
... Read more
Pop Culture Goes to War

Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror

by Geoff Martin, Erin Steuter ...

Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in rallying both the troops and the public for war and show how toys, video games, music, and television support contemporary militarism. At the ... Read more

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Pop Culture Goes to War, by Geoff Martin and Erin Steuter, explores the persistence of militarism in American popular culture in the war on terror, from 9/11 to the present day. The authors detail the role of Hollywood and the entertainment industries in rallying both the troops and the public for war and show how toys, video games, music, and television support contemporary militarism. At the
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