Across The Divide

Peacemaking In A Time Of Cold War

BY STEPHEN THEIRMAN
How can we learn to live peacefully with other people whose world views are not our own? This book offers personal strategies and experiences in coping with hostile situations where communications are few, dysfunctional, or non-existent. The author challenges us to apply lessons from Cold War peacemaking to the resolution of local and personal conflicts. Asking what peaceful means are at hand for solving conflict the readers of this volume will find themselves where modern history is unfolding, in Europe, Russia, the People's Republic of China, in outreach to North Korea, and in the crucible of the United Nations.

Sessions of York 2002 190 PP. Paper

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Affirming The Light

Ten Stories Of Quaker Peace Witness

EDITED BY STUART ULLATHORNE
Quaker Peace and Witness interviewed 10 Friends about their lives as active peacebuilders.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2002 78 PP Paper

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Bearing Witness

Quaker Process And A Culture Of Peace - Php 262

BY GRAY COX
Peace is portrayed as something we do, an activity of resolving differences based on a five-stage Quaker ethic.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 36 PP. Paper

$7.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Building Peace

Sustainable Reconciliation In Divided Societies

BY JOHN PAUL LEDERACH
Building peace is John Paul Lederachs's definitive statement on peacebuilding. He explains why we need to move beyond traditional diplomacy , ehich emphasises top level leaders and short term objectives, toward a holistic aproach that stresses amultiplicity of peacemakers, long term perspectives, and the need to create an infrastructure that empowers resources within asociety and maximises contributions from outside.

US Institute of Peace 1998 208 PP. Paper

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Checkpoints And Chances

Eyewitness Accounts From An Observer In Israel-palestine

BY KATHERINE MAYCOCK
Katharine Maycock went to the West Bank in October 2002 as a volunteer international observer based in Bethlehem for Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and she continued working there for a humanitarian agency into 2004. These are her luminous reports of being with people who live under military occupation, as they struggle with curfews, checkpoints, and sudden losses of home and livelihood.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2005 128 PP. Paper

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Cultures Of Peace

The Hidden Side Of History

BY ELISE BOULDING
Quaker sociologist Elise Boulding offers an eminent collection of essays that emphasizes her study of civil society over the past fifty years. While most media and academic attention focuses on the extreme violence in today's society, Elise Boulding notes an equally significant presence of cultures and societies of peace. Here, in a volume that represents a life's work, she revisits her theme of the connection of family, community, and government and offers enriching perspectives and advice on how to fuel the process of peace.

Syracuse University Press 2000 348 PP. Paper

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Enduring Hope

The Impact Of The Ramallah Friends Schools

BY PATRICIA EDWARDS-KONIC WITH MAX CARTER
"Enduring Hope" explores the impact of the Ramallah Friends Schools on students, alumni, teachers, staff, parents, the community, the Religious Society of Friends, and the wider world through first-person interviews and testimonies. The school is widely considered the best in Palestine and is a small beacon of hope in a desperate situation.

Friends United Press 2008 121 PP. Paper

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A Force More Powerful

A Century Of Nonviolent Conflict

BY PETER ACKERMAN AND JACK DUVALL
"These are powerful stories about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil and life eclipsing death. Nonviolent valor can end oppression, and the world of the 21st century will be safer, freer, and more humane if it heeds the lessons of this book." - Jimmy Carter

St Martins Press 2001 588 PP Paper

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God Has A Dream

A Vision For Hope For Our Times

BY DESMOND TUTU
This book is what Tutu calls "a cumulative expression of my life's work.", and is drawn largely from his sermons and lectures. He begins each chapter "Dear Child of God," and goes on to reflect on some aspect of the human condition illustrating his thoughts with anecdotes from his personal and public life. The book is written in his deceptively simple style and with great humor.

Doubleday 2004 144 PP. Cloth

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Hope Indeed!

Remarkable Stories Of Peacemakers

BY N. GERALD SHENK
Shenk tells the stories of "ordinary people" in bad situations, who used courage, inspiration and love to attempt a transformation to a positive outcome. Some examples are the farmer/pastor Ned Wyse beaten nearly to death in a random attack by neighbors, Palestinian parents who gave their young, murdered son's organs to Jewish children, Brother Ivo who kept bringing former Catholic and Muslim neighbors together as war escalated in Bosnia, and the Amish, who subverted the violation of their children in Nickel Mines by refusing to multiply the horror, and instead offered forgiveness and generosity.

Good Books 2008 106 PP. Paper

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I'd Rather Teach Peace

BY COLMAN MCCARTHY
This is the story of one man's passion for peace education, as seen during one semester in six schools where risk-taking students found themselves challenged and inspired by an unconventional course and by a man who believes that if we don't teach our children peace someone else will teach them violence.

Orbis 2002 140 PP Cloth

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Iraq

A Journey Of Hope And Peace

BY PEGGY FAW-GISH
From the fall of 2002 to the spring of 2004, Gish chronicles her Iraq experience with "Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT)", including a brief "Postscript." Here are stories of sleeping in a tent during bomb attacks, villages surrounded in razor wire, being deported out of Iraq, fighting for justice for Iraqi prisoners, being robbed, creating relationships with Iraqi citizens, and through it all - seeking the way of peace - the peace of Christ.

Herald press 2004 317 PP. Paper

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Life In A Penal Battalion Of The Imperial Russian Army (522)

The Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story

EDITED BY PETER BROCK
SECONDHAND COPY-god condition. "The Tolstoyan N. T. Iziumchenko's Story" A unique account by a young peasant conscript in the Imperial Russian army who was sentenced to serve two years in a penal battalion as a result of his refusal to bear arms.

Sessions 2001 63 PP. Paper

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The Little Book Of Strategic Peacebuilding

BY LISA SCHIRCH
"Strategic Peacebuilding" recognizes the complexity and the effort this elusive ideal requires. Schirch singles out four critical actions that must be undertaken if peace is to take root at any level: 1) Waging conflict nonviolently; 2) Reducing direct violence; 3) transforming relationships; and 4) Building capacity. She never imagines this to be quick-or an individual-task. Her clear and incisive strategy encourages enabling many approaches to peace, honestly assessing who holds power, and persuading and coercing, but always with keen judgment and precise timing.

Good Books 2004 89 PP Paper

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The Little Book Of Trauma Healing

BY CAROLINE YODER
Ideas for those who have been traumatized by terrorists or tsunamis, by unsafe and ongoing occupation or oppression. The primary premise is that traumatic events and times have the potential to awaken the human spirit and the global family, but this requires acknowledging our own history and that of the enemy, honestly searching for root causes, and shifting our emphasis from national security to human security. A startlingly helpful approach.

Good Books 2005 90 PP. Paper

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Making Peace - Healing A Violent World

EDITED BY CAROLYN MCCONNELL AND SARAH RUTH VANGELDER
Peace isn't just the absence of violence. A prison inmate, a divorced parent, a pastor, a diplomat, a farmer and others tell stories of creating peace. From the pages of YES! magazine, stories of peacemakers.... Joanna Macy, Wendell Berry, Thomas Berry, Troy Chapman, Walter Wink, Jamal Rahman, Michael Nagler, Quaker Peter Morse and others write on alternatives to violence, hate and domination. These stories suggest we needn't stand by as violence permeates our media, homes, schools, and international affairs. There is a better way.

Postive Futures Network 2003 92 PP. Paper

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Peace Is A Struggle

BY DAVID JOHNSON
Based on his experiences of peace activism and his own spiritual journey.David reminds us that the struggle for internal peace is as important, if not more important, than the struggle for peace in the world.

Australia Yearly meeting 2005 55 PP. Paper

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Peacework

Prayer, Resistance, Community

BY HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen wrote this book twenty years ago as his personal response in a time of heightening Cold War tensions. Its publication now, in a new era of fear and violence, is particularly timely. On the one hand Peacework represents a passionate call to all Christians to embrace Jesus' ethic of peacemaking as an "unconditional, unlimited, and uncompromising" demand. But Nouwen goes on to show that peacemaking is more than a matter of carrying placards or opposing war. "Nobody can be a Christian without being a peacemaker. . . What we are called to is a life of peacemaking in which all that we do, say, think or dream is part of our concern to bring peace to our world." -From the book

Orbis 2005 256 PP. Cloth

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A Problem From Hell

America And The Age Of Genocide

BY SAMANTHA POWER
The author, a Balkan War correspondent, looks clearly at the problems of American intervention in a world where genocide is still occurring. What are the reasons no one intervened in Rwanda, what could be done in a similar situation in the future, does America only act in its own best interest? This book illuminates many of the intractable problems and conundrums of a post 9/11 world.

HarperCollins 2003 620 PP. Paper

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Promise Ahead

A Vision Of Hope And Action For Humanity's Future

BY DUANE ELGIN
Back in 2000 Duane Elgin (author of Voluntary simplicity) prophetically outlined 4 emerging "opportunity trends," that could help overcome the growing social, economic, and environmental challenges we faced. They were Voluntary simplicity, using the Internet to for swift grass-roots change, heeding scientific evidence of nature's delicate balance, and utilizing the power of compassionate love to heal humanity's wounds. Succinct and hopeful, and now with both a huge crisis and opportunity in front of us Promise Ahead shows how we are uniquely posed to use our ingenuity to leap into a promising future.

Quill 2001 224 PP. Paper

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Reflections From A Prayer Vigil For Peace

Php 358

BY JOHN GALLERY
The author shares reflections born of his participation in an extended prayer vigil for peace. It includes thoughts on sowing peace, faithfulness, prayer and a section on Timothy McVeigh (a United States citizen executed for bombing an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 as an act of terrorism).

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 40 PP. Paper

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Religion And Peacebuilding

EDITED BY HAROLD COWARD AND GORDON SMITH
Acknowledging that religion can motivate either violence or compassion, this book looks at how a variety of world religions - Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Confucian, and Christian - can and do work for peace. Examples given are from Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa. A book of great scope and significance.

SUNY Press 2003 352 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

The Road To Peace

Writings On Peace And Justice

BY HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Nouwen believed following Christ required active involvement with the powerless of the world. This volume thoroughly integrates Nouwen's spiritual beliefs and social concerns and comprises dozens of essays, interviews, and writings such as his reflections on the March on Selma in 1965, the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., the legacy of Oscar Romero, and his work with handicapped people at the L'Arche community.

Orbis 2002 256 PP. Paper

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Seeking Peace In Africa

Stories From African Peacemakers

EDITED BY LON FENDALL, DON MILLER, SCOTT HOLLAND, AND DEAN JOHNSON
The WCC appealed to the Historic Peace Churches to share their responses to the enormous reach of terror and violation of human life in this generation. The stories in this volume are the hopeful responses of Africans who have lived through horrific violence. Some are unbearable tales of despair at the loss of millions of lives due to warfare, riots, terror, starvation, AIDS and disease. Others are remarkable descriptions of courageous peacemaking in the midst of nearly impossible circumstances. Includes contributions by Friends Malesi Elizabeth Kinaro, David Niyonzima, and Cecile Nyiramana who spoke at the 2007 FGC gathering.

Cascadia Publishing Publishing 2007 248 PP. Paper

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Taking A Stand

A Guide To Peace Teams And Accompaniment Projects

BY ELIZABETH BOARDMAN
Putting your body in the way of violence is a dramatic way of taking a stand. Taking a Stand describes the work done by peace teams and accompaniment projects - who runs them, what is involved in joining, and the social and emotional challenges and rewards from such experience. Accessible and conversational, the book describes who runs the peace programs, how to get information, the variety of people currently participating, and what to expect in terms of fear and exhilaration, resistance and support. The author is clerk of San Francisco Friends Meeting.

New Society 2005 176 PP. Paper

$10.95 (in stock)

Therefore Choose Life

The Spiritual Challenge Of The Nuclear Age - Php 300

BY JOHN TALMADGE
Nuclear addiction as spiritually solvable problem.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1991 Paper

$5.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Time For Peace

BY JANET GANGULI
In the current world climate of violence, terrorism and war, it is critical for young people to study peace and the ways peace exists in the world. Geared toward readers in middle school Time for Peace takes a lively, fully illustrated and international approach to peacemaking. The author explores the roots of violence and true alternatives to force, as well as profiling many peacemakers. First Day Scool, classroom teachers, as well as parents, will find this an invaluable tool in working with young people.

Quaker Press of FGC 2003 64 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Transforming Power For Peace

BY LAWRENCE APSEY, JAMES BRISTOL, KAREN EPPLER
This book of short essays on nonviolent philosophy and history provides a deep understanding of how the Quaker testimonies lead to powerful action for justice and peace. The work of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others illuminate what can be accomplished by following the light within-see king and speaking the truth. Anyone interested in spiritually grounded social action will find useful information and inspiration in this easy-to-read volume.

Quaker Press of FGC 2001 96 PP. Paper

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A Vision Of Peace

BY MARY LORD
Mary Lord, a professional peacemaker, asks, "Is peace-making just an idealistic vision, or does it actually work?" and answers, "For me, the acceptance of pacifism on a spiritual foundation has led me to seek to learn how to be a practical worker for peace. Peacemaking, after all, is practical dynamic problem solving.. If we are to create a realistic image of the peaceable community, we have to confront the unreality of our own vision. Our visions of the Peaceable Kingdom, our visions of community, our visions of peace have to confront reality." Mary Lord formerly worked for FCNL and currently serves AFSC as Assistant General Secretary for Peace and Conflict Resolution.

Southeastern Yearly Mtg. 2005 30 PP Paper

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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With O

Stories From Rwanda

BY PHILIP GOUREVITCH
In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.

Picador 1998 352 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)