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  • The Road to Hell

    by Michael Maren ...
    A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities.Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In this book, he claims that charities, such as CARE and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Conflict, Culture, Change

    Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World

    by Sulak Sivaraksa ...
    From Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa comes this look at Buddhism's innate ability to help change life on the global scale. Conflict, Culture, Change explores the cultural and environmental impacts of consumerism, nonviolence, and compassion, giving special attention to the integration of mindfulness and social activism, the use of Buddhist ethics to confront structural violence, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Peace and Conflict 2016

    Edited by David Backer, Ravinder Bhavnani, Paul Huth ...
    Series series Peace and Conflict
    An authoritative source of information on violent conflicts and peacebuilding processes around the world, Peace and Conflict is an annual publication of the University of Maryland’s Center for International Development and Conflict Management and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).The contents of the 2016 edition are divided into three sections:» Global ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Post-Liberal Peace

    by Oliver Richmond ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements.Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace’s internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rwanda

    History and Hope

    by Margee M. Ensign, William E. Bertrand ...
    Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. Imagine that this country is located in the heart of sub ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Commemoration as Conflict

    Space, Memory and Identity in Peace Processes

    by S. McDowell, M. Braniff ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    McDowell and Braniff explore the relationship between commemoration and conflict in societies which have engaged in peace processes, attempting to unpack the ways in which the practices of memory and commemoration influence efforts to bring armed conflict to an end and whether it can even reactivate conflict as political circumstances change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • These Strange Criminals

    An Anthology of Prison Memoirs by Conscientious Objectors from the Great War to the Cold War

    Edited by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    In many modern wars, there have been those who have chosen not to fight. Be it for religious or moral reasons, some men and women have found no justification for breaking their conscientious objection to violence. In many cases, this objection has led to severe punishment at the hands of their own governments, usually lengthy prison terms. Peter Brock brings the voices of imprisoned conscientious ... Read more

    $51.19 USD

  • The Egregor of the Dove or the Reign of Peace

    by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov ...
    Series series Izvor (EN)
    PresentationHow to establish a lasting peace.In the history of mankind, it is very difficult to find periods in which there has been no war and despite the fact that it cannot be denied that they desire peace. Yet there is no other way than to begin to establish peace within us: to monitor and appease our actions, thoughts and feelings. The propagation of this peace in each one of us in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Unconventional Warfare in South Asia

    Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency

    by Scott Gates, Kaushik Roy ...
    India is the world's tenth largest economy and possesses the world's fourth largest military. The subcontinent houses about one-fifth of the world's population and its inhabitants are divided into various tribes, clans and ethnic groups following four great religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. Framing the debate using case studies from across the region as well as China, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • About Face

    Military Resisters Turn Against War

    Edited by Buff Whitman-Bradley, Sarah Lazare, Cynthia Whitman-Bradley ...
    How does a young person who volunteers to serve in the U.S. military become a war-resister who risks ostracism, humiliation, and prison rather than fight? Although it is not well publicized, the long tradition of refusing to fight in unjust wars continues today within the American military.In this book, resisters describe in their own words the process they went through, from raw recruits to brave ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Obstacle to Peace

    The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    by Jeremy R. Hammond ...
    Why has peace in the Middle East remained so elusive?Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict provides the answer while also explaining why you won’t hear it from U.S. government officials or the mainstream media.With incisive and provocative analysis, Jeremy R. Hammond provides a meticulously documented account that explodes popular myths and deconstructs standard ... Read more

    $9.99 USD