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Bending the Arc
(August 2020)
Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War
Steve Breyman - Editor
John W. Amidon - Editor
Maureen Baillargeon Aumand - Editor
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Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.
Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region’s premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Med...(Read More) |
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Reconciliation in Global Context
(November 2018)
Why It Is Needed and How It Works
Björn Krondorfer - Editor
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A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.
When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old and fresh conflict zones around the world. Less apparent, perhaps, are the many attempts at bringing former adversaries together. Reconciliation in Global Context argues f...(Read More) |
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Flash Points
(July 2017)
Lessons Learned and Not Learned in Malawi, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Jade Wu - Author
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Honorable Mention – 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Political Science category
A compelling, intimate account of how US foreign assistance in war zones and developing countries does not achieve its intended goals.
From the hot savannah of Malawi to the cold, damp gray of Kosovo and into the volatile war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan,...(Read More) |
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Civilizing Globalization, Revised and Expanded Edition
(June 2014)
A Survival Guide
Richard Sandbrook - Editor
Ali Burak Güven - Editor
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Discusses the many facets of globalization and its feasible reform in easy-to-understand language.
Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised...(Read More) |
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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 ...(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...(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 diamon...(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 o...(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...(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 im...(Read More) |
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