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  • Steel Gate to Freedom
    Yu Jie / HC Hsu
    On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand people, holding only the medal and diploma of the year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner. A larger-than-life photo of a smiling Liu Xiaobo hung in the background.This striking image is now known throughout the world. But who is Liu Xiaobo? For the first time, this biography by renowned C...
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    34,94 €

  • How Mass Atrocities End
    Bridget Conley-Zilkic
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    43,31 €

  • Peaceful Selves
    Laura Eramian
    This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple with what kinds of persons they ought to become in the wake of violence. Based on fieldwork carried out over the course of a decade, it uncovers how conflicting moral demands emerge from the 1994 genocide, from cultural contradictions around "good" personhood, and from both...
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    184,50 €

  • Reverence for Life
    Albert Schweitzer
    Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert SchweitzerGathered together for the first time in one place, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Albert Schweitzer’s words on ecology, human and animal rights, philosophy, war and peace, music and the arts, and forming a global community.“I cannot but have Reverence for all that is called life. I cannot avoid compassion for everything that is called...
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    23,43 €

  • Reverence for Life
    Albert Schweitzer
    Gathered together for the first time in one place, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Albert Schweitzer’s words on ecology, human and animal rights, philosophy, war and peace, music and the arts, and forming a global community.“I cannot but have Reverence for all that is called life. I cannot avoid compassion for everything that is called life. That is the beginning and foundation of mor...
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    19,41 €

  • Politics and peace in Northern Ireland
    David Mitchell
    Examines the Agreement and its implementation through the eyes of the four major parties - The Ulster Unionist Party, the SDLP, Sinn Fein and the DUP - and considers the role of smaller parties in the region. Each interpreted the Agreement in different ways and continued to use the situation to pursue their own distinctive goals and aims. ...
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    36,98 €

  • Bana Alabed
    Sophia Lorraine
    A seven-year-old child in Aleppo, Syria, Bana Alabed tweeted a cry for help while bombs fell in the city around her. In the months that followed, she won the hearts of the world for her bravery, courage, and advocacy for peace for children everywhere. This unique coloring book biography tells Bana's story in words and pen-and-ink-style line art. The book depicts scenes of r...
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    8,22 €

  • Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
    Karen Ross
    As the level of distrust and alienation between Jews and Palestinians has risen over the past fifteen years, the support for grassroots organizations' attempts to bring these two groups closer has stagnated. Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Accords now struggle to find support, as their potential to create positive social c...
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    85,32 €

  • Governance for Peace
    Conor Seyle / David Cortright / Kristen Wall
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    44,51 €

  • The Architectonics of Hope
    Kyle Gingerich Hiebert
    The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology. Despite a veritable explosion of interest in the work of Carl Schmitt, which increasingly recognizes his contemporary relevance and prescience, there nevertheless remains a curious and troubling reticence within the ...
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    43,87 €

  • The Architectonics of Hope
    Kyle Gingerich Hiebert
    The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology. Despite a veritable explosion of interest in the work of Carl Schmitt, which increasingly recognizes his contemporary relevance and prescience, there nevertheless remains a curious and troubling reticence within the ...
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    26,77 €

  • Food in Zones of Conflict
    The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to militar...
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    44,52 €

  • The Political Crisis of March 2009 in Madagascar
    Adrien M Ratsimbaharison / Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison / Adrien MRatsimbaharison
    Since Independence in 1960, Madagascar has faced several periods of instability and crisis, as well as the threat of civil war. These periods were cyclical: each time the country made some significant economic and social progress, an unexpected crisis would occur to bring it to a halt. The book focuses on the crisis of March 2009, showing how a brewing conflict between the gove...
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    114,12 €

  • Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
    Timothy Longman
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    38,69 €

  • Justifying violence
    Naomi Head
    Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. ...
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    47,96 €

  • The Palestine-Israel Conflict
    Gregory Harms / Todd M. Ferry
    The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced, accessible, and annotated introduction that covers the full history of the region...
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    28,81 €

  • Humanitarianism, War, and Politics
    Peter J Hoffman / Peter J. Hoffman / Peter JHoffman / THOMAS G WEISS / Thomas G. Weiss / Thomas GWeiss
    What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protectio...
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    138,38 €

  • Humanitarianism, War, and Politics
    Peter J Hoffman / Peter J. Hoffman / Peter JHoffman / THOMAS G WEISS / Thomas G. Weiss / Thomas GWeiss
    What is humanitarianism? This authoritative book provides a comprehensive analysis of the original idea and its evolution, exploring its triangulation with war and politics. Peter J. Hoffman and Thomas G. Weiss trace the origins of humanitarianism, its social movement, and the institutions (international humanitarian law) and organizations (providers of assistance and protectio...
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    55,35 €

  • Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific
    MOHAMED NAWAB MOHAMED OSMAN
     Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact with communities of other faiths have led to the contemporary treatment of Islam and the Muslim communities in these nations. This book is based on the theme of Islam's presence and development in the Asia-Pacific region, and the concerns faced by Muslims in the...
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    127,78 €

  • Institutional Innovation and the Steering of Conflicts in Latin America
    This book opens the institutional Pandora’s box of conflict management, focusing on two central questions: To what degree do Latin American political contexts create spaces for institutional designs that deal with conflicts in a feasible and legitimate way? How can institutional architects exploit such spaces to manage conflict innovatively? The authors’ point of departure is t...
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    148,61 €

  • Decolonising Intervention
    Meera Sabaratnam
    Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ’expertise’. This book challenges and enhances standard ’critical’ narratives of statebuilding by exploring the historical experiences and interpretive frame...
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    172,23 €

  • Not One More Mother’s Child
    Cindy Sheehan
    Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad, in early 2004. As information became available revealing that the war in Iraq was based on lies, she began speaking out against it and demanding the troops come home. In August 2005, she went to Texas, to ask President Bush to explain “the noble cause” for the war he cites in his speeches...
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    23,05 €

  • Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
    Mark Shepard
    "All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind." -- Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi is one of the least understood figures of all time -- even among his admirers. In this Annual Gandhi Lecture for the International Association of Gandhian Studies, Mark Shepard tackles some persistently wrong-headed views of Gandhi, offering us a more accurate picture of the man and...
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    12,96 €

  • The Community of the Ark
    Mark Shepard
    France's Community of the Ark is one of the past century's most successful experiments in utopian living. Founded by Lanza del Vasto, a Christian disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, it offers an inspiring model for a nonviolent society. Mark Shepard shared the life of this remarkable community for six weeks in 1979 and reported on what he found. ////////////////////////////////...
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    22,91 €

  • Gandhi Today
    Mark Shepard
    What became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent independent journalist Mark Shepard to India in 1978–79. There he found that the tradition begun by Gandhi was very much alive, ...
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    19,61 €

  • Non-Violence
    Domenico Losurdo / Gregory C. Elliott / Gregory Elliott
    We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century philosophy has been committed to the criticism of violence, even when it has claimed to follow noble ends. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the 'betrayals,' of the disappointments...
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    64,04 €

  • A Discourse on African Philosophy
    Christian B Gade / Christian B. N. Gade / Christian BNGade
    Many have argued that ubuntu was a formative influence on the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa’s famous transitional justice mechanism. A Discourse on African Philosophy: A New Perspective on Ubuntu and Transitional Justice in South Africa challenges and contextualizes this view in a way that not only provides new findings and reflections o...
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    114,41 €

  • Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making
    Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
    Everyday resistance, peacebuilding and state-making addresses debates on the liberal peace and the policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. Examining the case of ’Africa’s World War’ in the DRC, it locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and...
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    157,36 €

  • Peacemaking in the Middle Ages
    J. E. M. Benham / JEMBenham
    This study explores the making of peace in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries based on the experiences of the kings of England and the kings of Denmark. It offers a vision of how relationships between rulers were regulated and maintained in a period before nation states and international law. ...
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    46,71 €

  • Cross-Cultural Competence for a Twenty-First-Century Military
    This book asserts that the application of cross-cultural competence to the unique environment of expeditionary deployment through military objectives is one of the most important force enablers in the U.S. international security mission. It will make an immediate and long-lasting contribution to Department of Defense research, learning, and policy. ...
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    78,56 €


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