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  • The Search for Lasting Peace

    Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security

    by Rosalind Boyd ...
    Series series Gender in a Global/Local World
    Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective of gender, addresses initiatives for peace with justice. Cases are analysed when the human ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • If Nuns Ruled the World

    Ten Sisters on a Mission

    by Jo Piazza ...
    "Fascinating profiles" of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking ( Daily News [New York])."In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes," writes Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times. "And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns."In If Nuns ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges

    How Foreign Aid became a Casualty of War

    by Peter Gill ...
    'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.'LSE Review of BooksThe war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate.From the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the unending struggle in Helmand, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Quality Peace

    Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order

    by Peter Wallensteen ...
    Series series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
    In Quality Peace, leading peace researcher Peter Wallensteen offers a broad analysis of peacebuilding, isolating what does and not work when settling conflicts. The book uses statistical analysis to compare two war outcomes-negotiated settlement and victory- in the post-Cold War era. Wallensteen finds that if peace is to last, three conditions must be met: a losing party must retain its dignity; ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Fate of Sudan

    The Origins and Consequences of a Flawed Peace Process

    by John Young ...
    In 2005, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's most devastating civil wars and set the stage for the partition of Sudan, Africa's largest country. One of the most important peace agreements in African history, it has had decisive consequences for the entire Horn of Africa. Yet to date there has been little rigorous analysis as to why the parties signed the CPA, what ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Dilemmas of Statebuilding

    Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations

    Edited by Roland Paris, Timothy D. Sisk ...
    Series series Security and Governance
    This book explores the contradictions that emerge in international statebuilding efforts in war-torn societies.Since the end of the Cold War, more than 20 major peace operations have been deployed to countries emerging from internal conflicts. This book argues that international efforts to construct effective, legitimate governmental structures in these countries are necessary but fraught with ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • United States Human Expedition

    by Timothy Rodgers ...
    The United States Human Expedition if adopted by the government, would become a non-combative branch of service that would evolve into a functional check and balance upon money. It would be implemented domestically until established and proven effective against poverty, criminal and substance abuse statistics. This publication covers the need to separate corporation from state. Corporations were ... Read more

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  • Drones and the Future of Air Warfare

    The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    by Michael P. Kreuzer ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs).While most existing literature examines either the law or ethics of RPAs, and some newer scholarship looks to the battlefield effectiveness (the gains from strikes versus the potential for ‘blowback, etc.), this work investigates it from a broader military perspective. It ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Gendered Agency in War and Peace

    Gender Justice and Women's Activism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina

    by Maria O’Reilly ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official discourses surrounding them. Extending Nancy Fraser’s tripartite model of justice to peacebuilding ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Building Walls and Dissolving Borders

    The Challenges of Alterity, Community and Securitizing Space

    Edited by Max Stephenson, Laura Zanotti ...
    Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Islamic State and the Coming Global Confrontation

    by Hussein Solomon ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examining its military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media. From its base in Iraq and Syria, IS has spread globally with 17 regional affiliates from Indonesia to Nigeria and sleeper cells in at least 60 countries, capable of atrocities like the Paris attack. To understand the threat of IS, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD