Books - Peace
From Provisions
To recommend books on Peace, see the Peace- Further Reading page.
Books in the Exhibition
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
Re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960's, and the chilling violence that followed.
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
Gioconda Belli
Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in 20th Century Warfare
Joanna Bourke
Basic Books, 1999
Bourke concludes that the structure of war encourages pleasure in killing and that perfectly ordinary, gentle human beings can, and often do, become enthusiastic killers without being brutalized.
The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent
Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin eds.
New Press, 2002
An intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the failed policies of Ariel Sharon’s government.
Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War
Assia Djebar
The Feminist Press, 2005 (original printing in French, 1962)
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books 1997
Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking?
Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives
Cynthia Enloe
University of California Press, 2000
A global tour of the sprawling process called "militarization."
Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings from Antiquity to the Present
Daniela Gioseffi ed.
The Feminist Press, 2003
Women on War gathers together writings by more than 150 women, including renowned poets, novelists, and activists, as well as ordinary women with first-hand experience of armed conflict.
Agent Orange: ‘Collateral Damage’ in Vietnam
Philip Jones Griffiths
Trolley, 2003
"In these pages are the Vietnamese and Cambodians that the American tourist never see, never hear about. Here are the results of the US spraying Agent Orange over these countries."
AfterWar: Veterans from a World in Conflict
Lori Grinker
Design Method of Operation, LTD, 2004
A culmination of 15 years spent photographing and interviewing men, women and children who have been on the frontlines of every major conflict of the past century.
Sam Hamill ed.
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003
Features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website Poetsagainstthewar.org
Peace Education
Ian M Harris and Mary Lee Morrison
McFarland, 2003
Tool for teachers, church leaders, community activists, and concerned citizens interested in using educational strategies to bring about a peaceful world.
WarZones
Karen Henry & Karen Love, eds.
Presentation House Gallery, 2000
Exhibition catalogue
Overturning The Culture of Violence
Penny Hess, (Art Reference Collection)
Burning Spear Uhuru Publications, 2000
In the spirit of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" this book exposes a United States history that is not conventionally taught.
Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide
Alexander Laban Hinton
University of California Press, 2002
The first collection of original essays on genocide to be published in anthropology, exploring a wide range of cases including Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Bosnia.
Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace
Maxine Hong Kingston ed.
Koa Books, 2006
A collection of nonfiction, fiction and poetry by combat veterans, medics, and others who served in war as well as gang members, drug users and vicitms of domestic violence, draft resisters, deserters and peace activists.
The Art of Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Human Rights
Jeffrey Hopkins ed.
Snow Lion Publications, 2000
In a dynamic exchange, these Laureates share their views with each other about the importance of basic human rights, their concerns about conflicts that arise when these rights are denied, and their practical ideas for achieving reconciliation.
Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
Peter Howe
Artisan, 2002
War Crimes and Collective Wrongdoing
Aleksander Jokic
Blackwell Publishers, 2001
In fourteen newly written essays, a distinguished team of international scholars consider war crimes and collective wrongdoing from a variety of moral, political, and legal perspectives.
Modern Hatreds: The symbolic politics of ethnic war
Stuart J. Kaufman
Cornell University Press, 2001
Women and the Politics of Peace: Contributions to a Culture of Women's Resistance
Biljana Kasic ed.
Centre for Women's Studies - Zagreb, 1997
A collection of papers representing the presentations held at the International Women's Forum: Women and the Politics of Peace in Zagreb, October 1996, and organised by the Centre for Women's Studies-Zagreb, Croatia.
The Eye of War: Words and Photographs from the Frontlines
Phillip Knightley and Sarah Jackson (art reference)
Smithsonian Books, 2003
This book selects 200 of the most powerful war photographs, together with poignant testaments by soldiers and battlefield witnesses.
Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Kurlansky
Random House, 2006
Sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Who's Calling the Shots?: Responding effectively to children's fascination with war play and war toys
Nancy Carlsson Paige and Diane Levin
New Society Publishers, 1990
Drawing on interviews and observation, offers a wealth of developmentally appropriate suggestions and resources for helping children reclaim imaginative play, avoid rigid gender and racial stereotypes, resist consumerism, and develop skills for playing and living less violently.
Staughton Lynd ed.
Orbis Books, 1995
Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated
James Mann ed.
Edition Olms, 2004
Over 200 full color posters from artists and designers from over 22 countries worldwide.
Jenny Matthews
University of Michigan Press, 2003
Twenty years of visual and written diaries tell of human struggle around the world -- in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Burma, Chechnya, Haiti, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, and Sudan, among others.
Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War
Tekeste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll
Ohio University Press, 2000
Presents important, contextual aspects to explain the growing discord between the two formerly friendly governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Helaine Posner ed. (Art Reference Collection)
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002
Exhibition Catalogue
Arundhati Roy
South End Press, 2003
Collection of new essays by Roy, highlighting the global rise of religious and racial violence.
Joe Sacco
Fantagraphics Books, 2002.
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia
Joe Sacco
Fantagraphics Books, 2000
An affecting piece of graphic journalism, telling the tale of the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde who endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally "cleansed" of its non-Serb population.
From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map
Edward W. Said
Pantheon, 2004
Forty-six eloquent and impassioned essays written by Said between December 2000 and July 2003 for the London-based Al-Hayat, Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly, and the London Review of Books, underscoring his tireless efforts for the Palestinian cause.
Peace and its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East peace process
Edward W. Said
Vintage Books, 1995
The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
Edward W. Said
Vintage Books, 1995
Essays on Peace: Paradigms for Global Order
Michael Salla, et al. eds.
Central Queensland University Press, 1995
Donated to Provisions Library from the library of Greg MacDonald, a D.C. Marine Reservist killed in Iraq, July 25, 2003
Evil Doesn’t Live Here: Posters from the Bosnian War
Daoud Sarhandi and Alina Boboc (Art Reference Collection)
Princeton Architectural Press, 2001
For three hellish years, Bosnians plastered the walls of their towns with messages of anger, frustration, desperation, resistance, and hope.
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Jonathan Schell
Metropolitan Books, 2003
A visionary work that explores the limits of violence and charts an unexpectedly hopeful course toward a nonviolent future
A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture
Rafi Segal, Eyal Weizman, eds.
Babel Publishers, 2003
Susan Sontag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
"A profound rethinking of the intersection of 'news,' art, and understanding in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster."
Green Parrots: A War Surgeon’s Diary
Gino Strada
Charta, 2004
'Green Parrots' are small winged cylinders about four inches long that flutter over lands devastated by war. These devices are in fact antipersonnel mines that have been designed to look like toys in order to rob children of their future.
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and The Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
Bloomsbury, 2006
Traces the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the parallel personal histories of two friends - an Arab and a Jew - and their families, all of whom are refugees seeking a home.
Facing Violence: The Path of Restorative Justice and Dialogue
Mark S. Umbreit, et al.
Criminal Justice Press, 2003
A distillation of research using interviews of crime victims, offenders, and program staff and volunteers from the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work.
Charles Villa-Vicencio
University of Cape Town Press, 2000
Liberia: The Heart of Darkness
Gabriel I.H. Williams
Trafford Publishing, 2002
Accounts of Liberia's Civil War and its destabilizing effects in West Africa
Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of the ‘Good War’
Michael Zezima
Soft Skull Press, 2000
Providing a refreshing look at right-wing propaganda and revisionist history in America, this book challenges the basic assumptions about World War II that have long been taken as fact.
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2003
In this new collection of four essays—three of which are previously unpublished—the author of A People's History of the United States writes about why "To criticize the government is the highest act of patriotism."
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2001
Includes reflections on the Vietnam War, World War II, the recent wars against Iraq and in Kosovo, and on the meaning of war in a world where even the “most advanced” societies have proven themselves incapable of overcoming the primitive predilection for physically attacking their neighbors.
