Results 1 - 10 of 10
Politics Is about Relationship: A Blueprint for the Citizens' Century
In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, hope is combined with realism based on confidence in the energies and capacities of citizens outside government to meet the pressing challenges we face today. Saunders presents …
The Just War and Jihad: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Examines whether religions encourge violence in their theology and writing and if certain religions are more prone to violence than others.
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
Volcano in My Tummy is about helping 6 to 15 year olds handle their anger so that they can live successfully, healthily, happily and nonviolently, with motivation, without fear and with good relationships. An accessible resource book for teachers,…
Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control
Hoping to disentangle myth from reality, the authors summarize research on guns and violence in accessible, nontechnical language. Among the topics addressed are media bias in coverage of gun issues, prohibitionist measures for reducing gun …
Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age
This moving dialogue between an American author and a Japanese peace activist makes the compelling argument that ordinary people can and must guide their leaders to a safer future free from nuclear menace.
Fixing America: Breaking the Stranglehold of Corporate Rule, Big Media, and the Religious Right
An award-winning investigative reporter provides a clear, honest diagnosis of the country's chronic diseases— corporate rule, big media, and the religious right— in this damning analysis. Exposing the darker side of capitalism, this critique …
Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinina Intifada
This book explores the complex relationship between the moderate and militant sections of the different groups of the Israeli peace movement they compete, cooperate, and occasionally clash. Special attention is given to the rise of the autonomous …
Dennis Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while …
Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement
Through previously published news articles, accounts drawn from web-logs and diaries, the last writings of the murdered American Rachel Corrie and contributions from the Humdall family, this book reveals the real horror of life under Israeli …
Policing and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-143) and index.