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Sam Hill's Peace Arch

Sam Hill's Peace Arch

Richard Clark

Curiously, little historical investigation occurred until Richard Clark, a resident of Blaine, Washington, whose home is but one block from Peace Arch State Park, completed an exhaustive manuscript after fifteen years of research.
Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and ...

Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict, Development and ...

Johan Galtung

The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace. The first part covers peace theory, exploring the epistemological assumptions of peace.
Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace

Turgenev and Russian Culture: Essays to Honour Richard Peace

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Post-War British Month(s) in the Country 221 DEREK OFFORD Worshipping the Golden Calf: the Intelligentsia's Conception of the Bourgeois World in the Age of Nicholas 237 RICHARD PEACE The Dark Side of Turgenev 259 ROBERT ...
Operation Peace

Operation Peace

Richard A. Gabriel

The first book about the 1982 war in Lebanon, Operation Peace for Galilee is based on hundreds of interviews with the soldiers of both sides, the guerrillas who fought in it, and the civilians caught in the middle.
Peace in a Troubled World:

Peace in a Troubled World:

Richard Roberts

And that’s what this booklet is about. Yes, you can learn how you can have God’s peace in the midst of a troubled world and be strengthened to face life in faith!
What is Peace?

What is Peace?

Wallace Edwards

A stunning, thought-provoking look at finding peace in children's lives. Peace is a familiar word, its meaning both simple and complex. Here, Wallace Edwards explores peace, and invites young readers to think about what that means to them.
Paradigms of Peace: A Pragmatist Introduction to the ...

Paradigms of Peace: A Pragmatist Introduction to the ...

Timo Kivimaki

In essence, Paradigms of Peace looks at what social science can give to the humanity's search for peace and then offers an agenda for peace research.Using constructivist pragmatist metatheory to guide the assessment of the merits of ...
On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria

On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria

Christine Bell

Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria Christine Bell. Contemporary peace agreements: convergence and divergence From this historical perspective, the post-1990 rise in peace agreements can be seen both as illusory and real.
The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland: Peace Lectures ...

The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland: Peace Lectures ...

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With contributions from U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, Sir David Goodall, Jan Egeland, Lord Owen, and Peter Mandelsohn, the second edition of The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland is an illuminating record of the ongoing peace ...
Peace: A World History

Peace: A World History

Antony Adolf

Proposed and performed in socio-economic, political, religious, philosophical and other ways, Adolf's presentation of the diversity of peace and peacemaking challenges the notions that peace is solely the absence of war, that this negation ...
The Message of the Birds

The Message of the Birds

Kate Westerlund

And so they fly far and wide, singing the song of joy and peace. Here is a beautiful story about the powerful role we all play in passing on the timeless message: "Let there be peace. Peace on Earth."
War and Peace in the Ancient World

War and Peace in the Ancient World

Kurt A. Raaflaub

Series Editor's Preface vii Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction: Searching for Peace in the Ancient World 1 KurtA. Raaflaub 2 Making War and Making Peace in Early China 34 Robin D. S. Yates 3 Ancient India: Peace Within and War ...
Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations

Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations

Michael W. Doyle

Making War and Building Peace examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that had UN involvement to those that didn't.
Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity

Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity

Lily Gardner Feldman

Hizkias Assefa, “Peace and Reconciliation as a Paradigm: A Philosophy of Peace and its Implications on Conflict, Governance, and Economic Growth in Africa,” Nairobi Peace Initiative Monograph Series 1 (1993). Gerhard Beestermöller ...
Give Peace a Chance: Preventing Mass Violence

Give Peace a Chance: Preventing Mass Violence

David A. Hamburg

In Give Peace a Chance, the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years.
Violence: A Modern Obsession

Violence: A Modern Obsession

Richard Bessel

Also by Richard Bessel Germany 1945: From War to Peace (2009) (ed., with Claudia Haake), Forced Removal in the Modern World (2009) Nazism and War ( 2004) (ed., with Dirk Schumann), Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and ...
The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted

The Nobel Peace Prize: What Nobel Really Wanted

Fredrik S. Heffermehl

In this groundbreaking and controversial critique of the selections of Nobel Peace Prize winners, an eminent Norwegian lawyer and peace activist calls for its return to legal and moral compliance with the will of Alfred Nobel who wished to ...
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Daniel Philpott

In Just and Unjust Peace, Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. He challenges the approach to peace-building that dominates the United Nations, western governments, and the human rights community.
ALIGN W/PEACE MEDITATION JOURN

ALIGN W/PEACE MEDITATION JOURN

Jane Reed

The Align With Peace Meditation Journal is a prompted personal meditation journal designed to aid the writer in delving deeper in order to find the peace they are seeking.
Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace

Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace

Glen Harold Stassen

Believing Christians should direct their energies toward finding a set of criteria and a model for a "just peace" instead of "just war", Stassen bases his peace theory on the new reality of our world, recent Biblical interpretation, and on ...
Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

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Harriet Hyman Alonso War II devastated the U.S. women's peace organizations that had formed between 1914 and 1924. The Women's Peace Society, the Women's Peace Union, and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War ...
Nuclear Zero?: Lessons from the Last Time We Were There

Nuclear Zero?: Lessons from the Last Time We Were There

George H. Quester

Weart, Nuclear Fears; A History, 92. 7. Rhodes, Making the Atomic Bomb, 296. 8. On the role of the atomic bomb on the peace after 1945, see Gaddis, The Long Peace. 9. See Jack Stokes Ballard, The Shock of Peace (Washington: University  ...
Environmental Change and Security Project Report

Environmental Change and Security Project Report

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Ecology of War and Peace: Counting Costs of Conflict By Tom H. Hastings Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. 142 pages. Reviewed by Elizabeth L Chalecki it Q i pacem para pacem" ("If you want peace, \J prepare for peace").
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Daniel Philpott

STUDIES IN STRATEGIC PEACEBUILDING Series Editors R. Scott Appleby, John Paul Lederach, and Daniel Philpott The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame STRATEGIES OF PEACE Transforming ...

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