Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies)
by Lois Edmund
Growing Up (Information Plus Reference: Growing Up, #2007)
by Melissa J Doak
Volumes in the Information Plus Reference Series are completely revised and updated every two years.
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award American Society of Missiology Book Award Publishers Weekly starred review You cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions. In this prophetic blend of history, theology, and cultural commentary, Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah reveal the far-reaching, damaging effects...
One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution Across the Disciplines
Why are some people violent and aggressive while others are not? Where do these negative emotions and actions come from? What can be done to prevent dangerous behavior? Drawing upon years of research and experience as a therapist, lecturer, and consultant to law enforcement and business, Moffatt presents a broad perspective on the psychological and sociological roots of aggression. Using both case studies and theoretical constructs from several different fields, this work provides an overview of...
Acclaimed war photographer Sean Smith has covered all the major conflicts of the past few years, from the Middle East to the Congo. "Frontlines" brings together some of his finest work, and offers both a chronicle of major flashpoints and a unique insight into modern warfare and its aftermath. Starting with the violence that erupted on the streets of Bethlehem in 2000, when Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers, Smith moves on to provide fascinating and poignant glimpses of life in Af...
Terrorism and Communism (Routledge Revivals) (Routledge Revivals)
by Karl Kautsky
First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs, which offers pathbreaking insights on the development of civilisation. The opening chapters, dealing with eigthteenth century France, are of special interest to the student of the French revolution. The section devoted to the Commune of Paris offers a stimulating and provocative description of this famous govenment of the...
Based on the highly acclaimed PeaceJam program - an educational action plan built around the spirit, skills, and wisdom of Nobel Peace Laureates - this is a practical and motivational guide that will inspire a generation of peacemakers. "PeaceJam" traces the lives of five American teens who, by applying the skills and techniques from the PeaceJam program and developing personal relationships with Nobel Peace Laureates such as the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, begin to sense their own potential fo...
Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships
by Andrea Stevenson Allen
In Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships, Allen examines the lives of Brazilian women in same-sex relationships. This examination contributes to interdisciplinary discussions of female same-sex sexuality, violence, race, and citizenship. Using fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, primarily with Afro-Brazilian women in the city of Salvador da Bahia, Allen argues that Brazilian lesbian women reject Brazilian cultural norms that encourage male domination and female submission...
In the summer of 1990, police found a young man named Nicholas Haddad dying of gunshot wounds in a Hartford city park. He had been a promising student at Wesleyan University, an elite liberal arts college in nearby Middletown, Connecticut, and a charismatic, mysterious and somewhat menacing figure on campus. An American citizen of Lebanese descent who grew up in Beirut, he claimed variously to be an African prince, a Sudanese rebel and an African American. The man who killed him, the son of a So...
The Brixton Disorders, April 10-12, 1981 (Command Paper, #8427)
by Lord Scarman
Remembering Mass Violence
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events. This anthology is global in focus, with...
Men's Violence Against Women: Theory, Research, and Activism
by Christopher Kilmartin and Julie Allison
The concept of jihad holds a prominent place in Islamic thought and history. Beyond its spiritual meanings, the term has historically been associated with the sweeping Arab-Believers conquests of the 7-8th century BCE. But given advances in our understanding of the historicity and chronology of the Qur'an and early Islamic texts, is it correct to identify jihad and Islam with violent conquest? In this book, Marco Demichelis explores the history of the concept of jihad in the early proto-Islam...