Peace- Further Reading
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Further Reading
Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Arjun Appadurai
Duke University Press, 2006
Places understandings of violence and terrorism into a framework of globalization.
Hanan Ashrawi
Touchstone, 1996
Arab negotiator provides detailed and personal view of Middle East peace negotiations.
The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War
Andrew Bacevich
Oxford University Press, USA, 2005
Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
Elise Boulding
Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival
Gordon Fellman
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
Ronald Fraser
Pantheon Books, 1979
An in-depth account of the Spanish Civil War, including a discussion of the participants' motivation and of the war's geography.
Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
Wenona Giles, Jennifer Hyndman eds.
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman
Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul
Ron Haviv and Ilana Ozernoy
de.MO, 2002
These photographs capture the period from October 2001, through the liberation of the city of Kabul, to the fall of the Taliban regime at the end of December 2001.
Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal
Ron Haviv and Chuck Sudetic
TV Books, 2000
Collection of Haviv’s unforgettable photographs, with Chuck Sudetic, the leading correspondent for the New York Times in Yugoslavia for much of the conflict, providing historical, political and cultural context in a penetrating essay.
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
Anchor, 2003
A war correspondent reflects on that which has lured and revolted him and us.
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
Carolyn Nordstrom
Bearing Witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Fiona Ross
Pluto Press, 2003
Fiona Ross's fascinating study of the process of bearing witness is the first to examine the gendered dimensions of this topic from an anthropological and ethnographic viewpoint.
Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential
Gene Sharp
Nancy Spero (Art Reference Collection)
Charta, 2003
"In these works, Nancy Spero not only expressed her rage at the violence of war and oppression, but introduced many of the images and themes in her work, and anticipated the postmodern aesthetic of fracture, dissonance and collage."
Ilkka Taipale ed.
Zed Books Ltd., 2002
This book provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the interface between warfare and human health and society.
William Vollmann
McSweeney's Books, 2004
The 700 or so page distillation of 7 volumes devoted to a history of war and violence.
Franke Wilmer
Peace Versus Justice
William Zartman and Victor Kremenyuk, eds.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005
Collection of essays on resolving conflicts so that they do not recur.
