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Cynthia
Sampson, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Claudia Liebler,
Diana Whitney, Editors, Positive Approaches to
Peacebuilding: A
Resource for Innovators is an invitation to peacebuilders to
consider
new "positive approaches" to transforming conflict and building peace
in some of the most complex of human situations. It is a call to shift
from
focusing predominantly on the conflict, struggle, and suffering to also
shining
light on cooperation, coexistence, and visions for a better future.
Other
contributors are Elise Boulding, Mark Chupp, Jaco Cilliers, David
Cooperrider;
Peter Delahaye, Tamra d'Estree, Sam Gbaydee Doe, Scott Fisher, Charles
Gibbs,
Paula Green, Peggy Green, Robin Gulick, Barbara Hartford, Meg Kinghorn,
Bharat
Krishnan, John Paul Lederach, Michael Henderson, Mark Mancao, Erin
McCandless,
Joseph Montville, Thomas Porter, Amela Puljek-Shank, Randy
Puljek-Shank;
Maurici Rios, Mary Hope Schwoebel, Nancy Good Sider; Herm Weaver;
Anastasia
White, and Heidi Paulson Winder. To read or download the Table of
Contents and
Introduction to Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding, go to
www.pactpublications.com. Rachel
M. MacNair, The Psychology of Peace: An
Introduction addresses the causes and effects of violence, as
well as
the causes and
effects of behaviors that counter or prevent violence. A brief overview
of the
central concepts of peace psychology is provided, in addition to study
of
results and questions that still exist. The text includes practical
guidance
for policymakers, activists, researchers, and all readers who want to
better
understand this major aspect of the human condition. The 240 pp. is
available
in paper and cloth from Praeger (Greenwood Publishing): (800)225-5800,
http://greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=C7855. Shibbley
Telhami, The Stakes: 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 for $75 cloth (a paper edition is due out shortly)
from
Lexington Books, 15200 NBN Way, P.O. Box 191, Big Summit, PA 17214 (800)462-6420, custservl@rowman.com,
www.lexingtonbooks.com. Ken
Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Eds.,
Environmental Peacemaking, addressing the role environmental
cooperation can play in transforming violent conflict, is 244 pp. for
$35 from
the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. Lous Kriesberg, Constructive
Conflicts: From Escalation to Revolution is published by Rowman
&
Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Monica Duffy Toft, Geography
of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of
Territory Princeton University Press. Martha Brill Olcott , Daniel L. Byman. Keeping
the Peace: Lasting Solutions to Ethnic Conflicts is published
by The
John Hopkins University Press. Robert O. Freedman, The
Middle East Enters the Twenty-First Century is available from
University Press of Florida. Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan:
The Eye of the Storm is available from Yale University Press. David P. Barash and Charles
P. Webel, Peace and Conflict Studies
is published by Sage Publications
Inc. by Inge Kaul, Pedro
Conceicao, Katell Le Goulven, Ronald U. Mendoza, Eds., Providing Global Public Goods:
Managing Globalization is available from Oxford University
Press. Yoichi Funabashi, Ed., Reconciliation
in the Asia-Pacific, is published by United States Institute of
Press. Yaakov
Kop and Robert E. Litan, Sticking Together:
The Israeli
Experiment in Pluralism; Tom Bjorkman, Russia’s
Road to Deeper Democracy;
Matthew Evangelista, The Chechen Wars: Will
Russia Go the Way of the Adekeye
Adebajo, Building Peace in West Africa:
Liberia,
Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau; Paul van Tongeren, Hans van de
Veen,
and Juliette Verhoeven, Eds., Searching for
Peace in Europe and Eurasia:
An Overview of Conflict and Prevention and Peacebuilding Activites;
and
Lyn S. Graybill , Truth & Reconciliation in
South Africa: Miracle or Model? are available
from Lynne Rienner
Publishers. Anthony
Gaglione, The United Nations Under Trygve Lie,
1945-1953; Peter B. Heller, The
United Nations Under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961; Bernard J.
Firestone, The
United Nations Under U Thant, 1961-1971; George J. Lankevich The
United Nations Under Javier Perez de Cuellar, 1982-1991; and
Stephen F.
Burgess, The United Nations Under Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, 1992-1997 are
all published by Scarecrow Press. Charles Thomas Taylor, Toward
World Sovereignty is published by University Press of America. Robin M. Williams Jr.,
The Wars Within: Peoples and States in Conflict is published
by Cornell
University Press, Munib Younan, Witnessing
for Peace: In Jerusalem and the World is available from,
Fortress
Press. US Labor
Against the War has
produced a report: "The
Corporate Invasion of Iraq: Profiles of US Corporations Awarded
Contracts in
US/British Occupied Iraq." Most of these corporations have been
awarded no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars to rebuild and
privatize Psychotherapy and Politics International is a new journal exploring
the connections and interactions between politics and psychotherapy in
theory
and practice. For details, contact the editor, Nick Totton:
psychpol@tiscali.co.uk. The Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics,
Economics
and Culture,
established in 1994, is a quarterly, co-published and co-edited by a
team of Palestinian and Israeli journalists and academics. The Journal
is an
independent quarterly that aims to shed light on and analyze freely and
critically the complex issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians. Its
goal is
to promote better understanding and rapprochement between the peoples,
and it
strives to discuss all issues without prejudice or taboos. The PIJ can be reached at pij@palnet.com,
www.pij.org. International Journal on
World Peace (IJWP) is available at
International Journal on World Peace, 2285 University Avenue West,
#200, St.
Paul, MN 55114 (651) 644-2809, ijwp@pwpa.org. Peace and Conflict 2003: A Global Survey
of Armed
Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy is the second edition in
the Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) Program's
biennial global report series. The full-color, 72-page global report
(umd.edu/inscr/pc03web.pdf) details major trends in armed conflict,
self-determination
movements, and democracy through the contemporary era, 1946-2002, and
provides
a "conflict ledger" assessing each country's "peace-building
capacity" in 2003. The work is available free at
<http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/pc03web.pdf>http://www.cidcm. Special Report: Zimbabwe and the Prospects
for
Nonviolent Political Change, commissioned by United States Institute
of Peace's
Research and Studies Program and written by three scholar-analysts
currently
living and working in Zimbabwe (not named for reasons of personal
security) is
available on line. After three years of protracted political crisis and
precipitous economic decline, what are the prospects for nonviolent
change and
societal reconstruction in Zimbabwe? This report examines the obstacles
to
change and considers the roles of key domestic actors, their
strategies, and
their interests in a new Zimbabwe. It assesses the current mechanisms
for
change and potential outcomes. It can be read in full at:
//www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr109.html or call 202-429-3832,
option 1,
for a copy or copies via post, or email: dbrown@usip.org, specifying
mailing
address and report desired. Related: David
Adams has a
brief history of the culture of peace on his website at
http://www.culture-of-peace.info/history/introduction.html, along with
the
original version of the UNESCO monograph,
http://www.culture-of-peace.info/monograph/page1.html, David Adams:
adams1peace@aol.com. The
Plowshares Peace Studies Collaborative of Earlham, Goshen and Manchester Colleges
announces
the launching of the Plowshares website: www.plowsharesproject.org. 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. 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. |