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Youth Peacebuilding
(April 2013)
Music, Gender, and Change
Lesley J. Pruitt - Author
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Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.
This book highlights the important role youth can play in processes of peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in such activities. As Lesley J. Pruitt discusses throughout the book, music—as expression, as creation, as inspiration—can provide many unique insights into transforming conflicts, alter...(Read More) |
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Toward a Credible Pacifism
(September 2009)
Violence and the Possibilities of Politics
Dustin Ells Howes - Author
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Argues that violence is no more reliable than any other means of conducting politics.
Advocates of pacifism usually stake their position on the moral superiority of nonviolence and have generally been reluctant or unwilling to concede that violence can be an effective means of conducting politics. In this compelling new work, which draws its examples from both everyday experience and the history of Western political thought, author ...(Read More) |
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With an Iron Pen
(March 2009)
Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
Tal Nitzan - Editor
Rachel Tzvia Back - Editor
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A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.
The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Palestinian territories—“the sin of Judah,” which is written “with an iron pen, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet o...(Read More) |
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Educating for Human Rights and Global Citizenship
(March 2008)
Ali A. Abdi - Editor
Lynette Shultz - Editor
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Essays that highlight the role of education in bringing about inclusive citizenship and human rights norms.
Nearly sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in spite of progress on some fronts, we are in many cases as far away as ever from achieving an inclusive citizenship and human rights for all. While human rights violations continue to affect millions across the world, there are also ongoing contestat...(Read More) |
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Gettin' My Word Out
(August 2007)
Voices of Urban Youth Activists
Leonisa Ardizzone - Author
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Addresses the social, educational, and political implications of youth activism, especially peace activism.
At a time when many adults criticize young people as being self-absorbed and apolitical, this book demonstrates, through research conducted with inner-city youth activists, the inaccuracy of this judgment. Working through nonformal activist organizations, Leonisa Ardizzone examines how youth activists respond to injustice, c...(Read More) |
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The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods
(October 2004)
Globalization, Technology, and War
David J. Hawkin - Editor
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Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.
This book penetrates the assumptions of Western technological society and exposes the powers that govern it. The contributors argue that it is a mistake to think that religion and belief have been relegated to the private sphere and are no longer important in the pu...(Read More) |
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Educating for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace
(August 2004)
Anita L. Wenden - Editor
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Examines the overlapping aims, values, and concepts in peace and environmental education.
Acknowledging the dual notions of danger and opportunity that present themselves in contemporary social and ecological crises, this book explores how both peace and environmental education can transform the way we think and what we value. The book outlines the link between social violence and ecological degradation and the need to educate for the...(Read More) |
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Landmines and Human Security
(June 2004)
International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy
Richard A. Matthew - Editor
Bryan McDonald - Editor
Kenneth R. Rutherford - Editor
Her Majesty Queen Noor - Foreword by
The Honorable Lloyd Axworthy - Foreword by
Lady Heather Mills McCartney - Foreword by
Sir Paul McCartney - Foreword by
Senator Patrick Leahy - Foreword by
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Recounts and evaluates the worldwide effort to ban landmines.
“This volume charts how a diverse group of individuals with no common affiliation or political interest other than their collective cause, using modern networking and communications, can bring about social change. In documenting this alone, this volume has done great service.” — Journal of Peace Research
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Peaceful Persuasion
(March 2004)
The Geopolitics of Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski - Author
Tom H. Hastings - Foreword by
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Offers a conceptual foundation for nonviolent rhetoric.
This remarkable book asserts that nonviolent rhetoric, largely overlooked until now, supports conflict transformation when applied to contemporary political communication. Ellen W. Gorsevski explores the pragmatic nonviolence of Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov, the visual rhetoric of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and an anti-racist campaign in Billings, Montana. In so d...(Read More) |
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Religion and Peacebuilding
(January 2004)
Harold Coward - Editor
Gordon S. Smith - Editor
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Acknowledging that religion can motivate both violence and compassion, this book looks at how a variety of world religions can and do build peace.
In the wake of September 11, 2001 religion is often seen as the motivating force behind terrorism and other acts of violence. Religion and Peacebuilding looks beyond headlines concerning violence perpetrated in the name of religion to examine how world religions have also inspired so...(Read More) |
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