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Peace Research Foundation
| Gandhi, the Man: The Story of His Transformation | Report Error | | Author: Eknath Easwaran, Michael N. Nagler, Timothy Flinders (Afterword) | | Publication Date: July 1997 | | Publisher: Nilgiri Press | | Description: 'In 1893, Mohandas Gandhi left India for South Africa at the age of 23 a man whose past was full of failure. Ten years later, called a saint even by those who opposed him, he grew to become the acknowledged leader of 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence. How did it happen? As a young man, Eknath Easwaran visited Gandhi not to observe his political style, he states, but, 'because I wanted to know the secret of his power.' It is this secret that Easwaran reveals to his readers.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Global Disorder: America and the Threat of World Conflict | Report Error | | Author: Robert Harvey | | Publication Date: January 2003 | | Publisher: Carroll & Graf | | Description: 'In 1990 the Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War ended, and to economic and political analysts the world seemed a safer place. But not to political journalist and former member of the House of Commons Foreign Affair Committee Robert Harvey. In 1995, in The Return of the Strong, Harvey published his fear that on the tides of ethnic nationalism and economic globalization the world was drifting toward a new crisis. The attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, justified Harvey’s alarm and prompted him to extensively revise and update his analysis of the profound dangers facing western democracy today. Incisive, astute, and brilliantly argued, Global Disorder not only examines the precarious state of world affairs in the aftermath of 9/11 but also offers far-reaching proposals for the reform of global security. After describing the emergence of the United States as the world’s first megapower in part 1 of this important book, Harvey explores the sources of global instability and international tension in part 2, and then in part 3 lays out the perils inherent in the globalization of capitalism without political control. Finally, in part 4, he presents the necessary short- and long-term reforms in policy and action that the West, especially the United States, must undertake to restore stability around the world and to truly ensure international security.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Intervening in Africa: Superpower Peacemaking in a Troubled Continent | Report Error | | Author: Herman J. Cohen | | Publication Date: 2000 | | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | | Description: 'As the Cold War faded, Ambassador Hank Cohen, President George Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, engaged in aggressive diplomatic intervention in Africa's civil wars. In this revealing book Cohen tells how he and his Africa Bureau team operated in seven countries in crisis--Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia and Sudan. He candidly characterizes key personalities and events and provides a treasure trove of lessons learned and basic principles for practitioners of conflict resolution within states.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 10/5/2003 |
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| Peace and Power: Building Communities for the Future | Report Error | | Author: Peggy L. Chinn | | Publication Date: December 2001 | | Publisher: Natl League for Nursing | | Description: 'Many people are seeking alternative ways to build meaningful relationships and effective ways of working together in various communities and groups. Peace and power processes, as presented in this book, are designed to create movement away from practices that alienate and oppress toward practices that nurture and empower. Peace and Power: Building Communities for the Future can serve as a handbook to inspire ways of living your values in work groups, voluntary community action groups, and even at home.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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| Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life | Report Error | | Author: Thich Nhat Hahn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold Kotler (Editor), Nhat | | Publication Date: March 1992 | | Publisher: Bantam ; Reissue edition | | Description: 'In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to 'mindfulness' -- the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.
Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is -- in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part -- and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the 'mindless' into the mindFUL.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/13/2003 |
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| Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century | Report Error | | Author: Daniel J. Christie (Author), Richard V. Wagner (Author), Deborah DuNann Winter (Author) | | Publication Date: December 2000 | | Publisher: Prentice Hall | | Description: 'Peace, Conflict, and Violence brings together the key concepts, themes, theories, and practices that are defining peace psychology as we begin the 21st century. This comprehensive book is rooted in psychology, but includes a wide range of interpersonal, community, national and international contexts, multiple levels of analysis from micro to macro, and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It reflects the breadth of the field and captures the main intellectual currents in peace psychology. Presents 4 main currents: violence, social inequalities, peacemaking, and the pursuit of social justice. Contains a wide range of topics, including ethnic conflict, family violence, hate crimes, militarism, conflict management, social justice, nonviolent approaches to peace, and peace education. Ideal for readers interested in peace education, international studies, psychology, political science, anthropology, and sociology.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/15/2003 |
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| Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace | Report Error | | Author: Gore Vidal | | Publication Date: March 2002 | | Publisher: Thunder | | Description: 'The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called 'perpetual war for perpetual peace.' The Federation of American Scientists has catalogued nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following both September 11th and Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City: these were simply the acts of 'evil-doers.'' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
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| Power and Terror: Post 9-11 Talks and Interviews | Report Error | | Author: Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman (Editor), Takei Masakazu (Editor), Takei Masakuzu | | Publication Date: February 2003 | | Publisher: Seven Stories Press | | Description: 'Power and Terror, Noam Chomsky's highly anticipated follow-up to 9-11, is drawn from a series of public talks that Chomsky gave during the spring of 2002, as well as a lengthy unpublished interview. It presents Chomsky's latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and alternatives to militarism and violence as solutions to the world's problems. Chomsky challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral standards it demands of others, and arrives at a surprisingly optimistic conclusion rooted in his faith in the power of an informed public.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
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