Nonviolent Change Journal

Current Issue
  Editor's Comments
  Upcoming Events
  Ongoing Activities
  World Developments
  Dialoguing
  What We Are About
  Articles
  Media Notes
  Reports/Announcements
  Funding

Archive

Editorial Team

Questions/Feedback

Selected Links

Vol. XVII, Number 3 Spring, 2003

Media Notes

Ian M. Harris and Mary Lee Morrison, Peace Education (Second Edition), from McFarland & Co. Jefferson, North Carolina, 2003, introduces a relatively new area of educational reform, where educators use their skills to address problems of violence. It explains how educational strategies reduce levels of violence in this postmodern world. This book has been written for a broad audience that includes school personnel, university professors, scholars, church leaders, and peace movement activists. Many different people are currently concerned with peace, and the issues of violence that spark their interest cover many different realms - from domestic abuse to international terrorism. Peace Education suggests that teaching about alternatives to violence can improve school performance and build the foundation for constructing a culture of peace. For more information about this book and instructions on how to order see: http://www.mcfarlandpub.com Once there, click onto "Search our books" and type in the title: Peace Education

David S. New, Holy War: The Rise of Militant Christian, Jewish and Islamic Fundamentalism is available from McFarland & Company. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com, (800)253-2187, (336)246-4460.

Michelle LeBarron, Bridging Troubled waters: Conflict resolution from the Heart, develops an approach to conflict resolution based upon “diverse ways of knowing,” showing how conflict arises and needs to be resolved in relationships, and giving examples about how parties and mediators come to know things through their emotions, bodies and intuition. The 329 pp. hardcover book is available from Jossey Bass.

The United States Institute of Peace book offerings include: Henry J. Soalski, An Ounce of Prevention: Macedonia and the UN Experience in Preventive Diplomacy (250 pp. for $17.50); David R. Smock, Ed., Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding ($14.99 for $14.95 paper); John Darby, The Effects of Violence on Peace Processes (144 pp. for $14.95 paper) and Scott Snyder, Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (236 pp. for $17.95 paper, $37.50 cloth), plus $4 shipping per title
from United States Institute of Peace Press, P.O. Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172 (800)868-8064, www.usip.org. USIP also offers Special Reports, free of charge for single copies,
(in addition to those mentioned above) include Brenda Pearson, “Putting Peace into Practice: Can Macedonia’s New Government Meet the Challenge?” and “Would an
Invasion of Iraq Be a ‘Just War’?” Peace Watch is published six times a year is available at no cost for single subscription/copies. For more information or to order, contact United States Institute of Peace, 1200 17 St., NW, Washington, DC 20036 (202)457-1700, usip_requwsts@usip.org, www.usip.org.

Offerings from Praeger include: U.K. Heo and Shale A. Horowitz, Eds., Conflict in Asia: Korea, China-Taiwan and India-Pakistan (266 pp, for $27.95 paper, $74.95 cloth);
George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Ida Rousseau Mukenge, Zones of Conflict in Africa: Theories and Cases (184 pp. for $62.95 cloth); Carrie L. Manning, The Politics of Peace in Mozambique (224 pp. for $59.95); and Hooman Peimani, Failed Transition, Bleak Future?: War and Instability in Central Asia and the
Caucasus (176 pp. for $59.95), all (plus 10% of order, shipping) from Greenwood Publishing Group,
88 Post Rd., West, P.O. Box 5007, Bridgeport, CT 06881 (800)225-5800, orders@greenwood.com, www.greenwood.com

Lynne Rienner Publishers offerings include: Nigel D. White, The United Nations System: Toward
International Justice (335 pp. for $24.95 paper, $65 cloth); Fen Osler Hampton and David Malone, eds.,
From Reaction to Conflict Prevention: Opportunities for the UN System (431 pp. for $22.50 paper, $59.95 cloth);
Paul F Diehl, Ed., The Politics of Global governance: International Organization in an Interdependent World
(515 pp. for $24.95 paper); Michael Edwards and John Gaventa, Eds., Global Citizen Action: International
Organizations in an Interdependent World (238 pp. for $19.95); Jeffrey A. Larson, Ed., Arms Control: Cooperative
Global Security in a Changing Environment (413 pp. for $23.95 paper, $59.95 cloth); Colin S. Gray, The Second Nuclear Age (194 pp. for $22 cloth); Stephen John Stedman, Donald Rothchild and Elizabeth M. Cousins, Eds., Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements (729 pp. for $26.95 paper, $65 cloth); Jarat Chopra, Ed., The Politics of Peace-Maintenance (148 pp., for $8.95 paper, $18 cloth); Elizabeth M. Cousins and Chetan Kumar, Eds., Peacebuilding as Politics: Cultivating Peace in Fragile Societies (248 pp. for $16.95 paper, $45 cloth); Luc Reychler and Thania Paffenholz, Eds., Peacebuilding: A Field Guide (573 pp. for $24.95 paper, $65 cloth); Andreas Wenger and Donald Makckli, Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector (240 pp. for $45 cloth) William G. O’Neil, Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace (159 pp. for $13.95 paper); Elizabeth M. Cousins and Charles K. Cater, Toward Peace in Bosnia: Implementing the Dayton Accords (189 pp. for $14.95 paper); Michael G. Smith, with Moreen Dee, Peacekeeping in east Timor: The Path to Independence (200 pp. for $16.95); Ian Martin, Self-Determination in east Timor: The United Nations, the Ballot, and International Intervention (200 pp. for $13,95 paper); Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de Veen and Juliette Verhoeven, Eds., Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities (832 pp. for $24.95 paper, $65 cloth); Monique Makencamp, Paul van Tongeren and Hans van de Veen, Eds., Searching for Peace in Central Asia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities (665 pp. for $24.95 paper, $65 cloth); Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, Ed., The Foreign Policies of the Global South: Rethinking Conceptual Frameworks (240 pp. for $49.95 cloth); Edward A. Olsen, Toward Normalizing U.S.-Korea Relations: In Due Course (148 pp. $42.50 cloth); David M. Malone and Yuen Foong Khong, Eds., Unilateralism and U.S. foreign Policy: International Perspectives (460 pp. for $22.50 paper, $49.95 cloth); Stewart Patrick and Shepard Forman, Eds., Multilateralism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Ambivalent Engagement (509 pp. for $22.50 paper, $59.95 cloth); Peter J. Schraeder, Ed., Exporting Democracy: Rhetoric vs, Reality, an analysis of attempts to promote democracy in other nations since World war II (291 pp. for $35 cloth); Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (200 pp. for $19.95 paper, $49.95 cloth); Jude Howell and Jenny Pearce, Civil Society and Development: A Critical Exploration (267 pp. for $22 paper, $55 cloth); Mohammed M. Hafez, Why Muslims Rebel: Repression and Resistance in the Islamic World (240 pp. for $49.95 hardcover); Simon W. Murden, Islam, the Middle East, and the New Global Hegemony (235 pp. for $19.95 paper, $52 cloth); Robert G. Rabil, Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel, and Lebanon (300 pp. for $58.50 cloth); Michael Dumper, The Politics of Sacred Space: The Old City of Jerusalem in the Middle East Conflict (185 pp. for $49.95 cloth); Manuel Antonio Garreton, Marcelo Cavarozzi, Peter cleaves, and Gary Gereffi Jonathan Hartlyn, Latin America in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a New Sociopolitical Matrix, presenting new conceptual tools and multidisciplinary analysis to understand the myriad of changes in contemporary Latin America as it is impacted by Globalization (170 pp. for $21.95 paper, $36 cloth);

Dov Lynch, Russian Peacekeeping Strategies in the CIS: The Cases of Moldavia, Georgia and Tajikistan are available from St. Martin’s Press in New York. Amitav Acharya, Constructing a Security Community in South East Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order is published by Routledge in London. Kongdan Oh and Ralph C. Hassig, North Korea: Through the Looking Glass is available from the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

Ladislav Rusmich and Stephen M. Sachs, Lessons from the Failure of the Communist Economic System, is a critique of the process of political-economic transition of East Europe Robert and of mainstream economic theory as applied to East European economic transition, including an emphasis on the idea that to know how to properly transform any political and economic system one must understand its condition, including psychological and cultural factors, and their causes at the time of the commencement of the transformation process. The approximately 290 pp. Cloth volume is available from Lexington Books, 15200 NBN Way, P.O. Box 191, Big Summit, PA 17214 (800)462-6420, custservl@rowman.com, www.lexingtonbooks.com. O’Brien, Anne Marie Goetz, Jan Aart Scholte and Marc Williams, Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements is available from Cambridge University Press.

Betty A. Reardon, Education for a Culture of Peace in a Gender Perspective is 200 pp. for $16, digital edition $8, from UNESCO Publishing, 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France, publish.promotion@unesco.org, www.unesco.org/publishing. Betty A. Reardon and Alicia Cabezudo, Learning to Abolish War: Teaching toward a Culture of Peace is $25 (plus $4 shipping) from Hague Appeal for Peace, c/o IWTV,777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017.

The European Centre for Conflict Resolution has been producing a series of volumes entitled “Searching for Peace in…” for conflicts in Europe, Africa, Eurasia and Central and South
Asia. for details, go to www.conflict-prevention.net.

The Stanley Foundation offerings include the quarterly Courier: Provoking Dialogue About the World and issues of the Policy Bulletin, on such topics as “Stabilizing Regions in Post-9/11 Era: U.S. Relations with China, Iran and Russia”, usually available in single copies at no cost from the Stanley Foundation, 209 Iowa Ave., Muscatine, IA 52761 (563)264-1500, info@stanleyfoundation.org, www.stanley foiundation.org.

Scientists for Social Responsibility Newsletter, No. 26, February 2003, “Knowledge: Common Heritage not Private Property, dissecting current controversies surrounding the ‘enclosure of the knowledge commons’,” may be obtained via Patrick Nicholson, PatrickN@sgr.org.uk.

Green Horizon Quarterly, a voice of the Green Movement is $20 a year from John Rensenbrink, Green Horizon Foundation, 196 Cathance Rd., Tophsam, ME 04086, www.green-horizon.org.

Fellowship for Reconciliation (FOR) is offering: Voices from the Middle East: Middle East News: What the American Media won't tell you, A new free service from the FOR compiling daily news reports from various Middle Eastern online newspapers and websites and translating them from Arabic, Persian and Hebrew into English, at: http://www.forusa.info/news/. FOR is at www.forusa.org.

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting, http://www.iwpr.net, is putting out a series, “Iraqi Crisis Report” To subscribe directly, go to https://www.global-list.com/secure/iwpr/subscribe_pop.asp. Readers also can subscribe free to IWPR's full range of electronic publications on Afghanistan, the Balkans, Belarus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. Sue McGregor reports (via PJSA’s list serv) that to get non-Western news and views on Iraq war, a good source is TNN, the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research News Navigator: http://www.transnational.org/new/TNN.html - and scroll to you get to the green box with media in the Middle East. Then browse other boxes with media from other regions. TNN has a broad collection of both mainstream and alternative, Western and non-Western media, also carries the major news bureaus. For the Al-Jazeera Net in English: Go to http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1. Then copy: http://www.arab2.com/radiotv/jazeera-net.htm and paste it into the space Web Page Translation and click the "Translate" button- then wait and you get Al-Jazeerah Net with at least some articles translated into English. (You may have to register and get a free password).

The Accord series, “Owning the Process: Public Participation in Peacemaking,” is available on line at http://www.c-r.org/accord/peace/accord13 and can be obtained in for £17.00 / $26.00 plus postage and packaging (10% within the UK, 15% within Europe, and 30% in the rest of the world) from Accord, Conciliation Resources, 173 Upper street, London N1 1RG, UK. accord@c-r.org ; tel. +44 (0)20 7359 7728; fax. +44 (0)20 7359 4081. The 12th issue in this Accord series, 'Weaving consensus: the Papua New Guinea - Bougainville peace process', discusses the development of he Bougainville Peace Agreement, signed in 2001, that brought to a definitive end the most violent conflict in the South Pacific since the Second World War. Triggered in part by disputes between indigenous locallandowners and the international proprietors of the world's largest copper mine, violent resistance met an abusive response from the PNG security forces resulting in a decade of displacement, death and violence, that was finally ended with some innovative peace building.

The Progressive Populist, with articles from a liberal perspective and information and views not generally available, is: P.O. Box 487, Storm Lake, Iowa 50588, http://www.populist.com>www.populist.com, by mail for $10 for 6-month introductory subscription, $32.95 for 1 year, $54.95 for 2 years.

Additions to the Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace website, announcing upcoming events, containing media notes and making reports, is at, http://www.peace.ca/upcoming.htm.

Cultures of Peace News Network-USA is at: http://cpnn-usa.org.

Veterans for Peace is at: http://www.veteransforpeace.org.

Men's International Peace Exchange, including some articles, is at: www.peaceexchange.org

SojoMail is a free, weekly email-zine of Sojourners providing ongoing coverage and commentary on issues of justice and peace. Subscribe at http://www.sojo.net/SojoMail.

Return to Top of Page

These articles and opinions of the authors do not constitute the endorsement of Nonviolent Change nor its publisher, Organization Development Institute, or any of its staff, nor of CirclePoint which is housing the Nonviolent Change Journal.

©2002, 2003. All rights reserve. The Nonviolent Change Journal is published by the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change - an interorganizational and international project of The Organization Development Institute.

Permissions: Reposting and reprints are encouraged, as long as proper source acknowledgement is given. As a courtesy, please let us know that you are reprinting or electronically reposting. It helps us know of the interest level. Thank you.