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"I teach an introductory course on this topic and can think of no other useful text in the fieldI like the organization and scope of this volumebeginning with the nature and causes of war, then proceeding to negative peace, and then positive peace.I also liked the extensive use of literary fragmentsmy students would relate to that.Theres a need for it and I think the authors are on the right track."

-MICHAEL KLARE, Hampshire College

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Peace and Conflict Studies
Very broad and objective overview of the nature of conflict, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.Well recommended for students of conflict resolution as well as for anyone interested in the subject.Well written and reads very easily. ... Read more

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Why does the Bible contain so many stories of hurting people?In this volume of the popular Topical Bible Study Series, Max Lucado builds on themes explored inHe Still Moves Stones,showing us the tenderness of Christ through tragic situations and reminding us that what he did then he is willing to do today.

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Approaches to Peace provides a unique and interdisciplinary sampling of classic articles and short literary selections focusing on the diverse aspects of peace and conflict studies. Readings cover the causes of war and proposed means of preventing it, so called negative peace, and also reflect upon the universal concern for positive peace. The material examines nonviolence movements, peace movements, religious inspirations, and our future prospects for peace. Contributors include Johan Galtung, Kenneth Boulding, Elise Boulding, and Alva Mydral. Contemporary pieces by Jonathan Schell, Richard Falk, Betty Reardon, and Vaclav Havel, and timeless classics from Leo Tolstoy, the Bhagavad Gita, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, and Thoreau are included as well. The book's balanced and unbiased approach makes it easily adaptable to both general discussions of peace and conflict as well as the rapidly changing issues of the moment. Approaches to Peace is able to stand on its own as a foundation text in any introductory peace studies course. It is also compact enough to use as a supplement with more specialized readings, allowing instructors to assign additional readings consistent with their own particular orientation. Each selection is prefaced by a short introduction highlighting the author's background, the work's historical context, and the selection's significance in terms of the "big picture." Study questions and a list of suggested readings at the end of each selection also provide a useful resource for students. ... Read more

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One of the best, but still falls a bit short
I've used David Barash's _Approaches to Peace_ several times in my college classes on peace and justice.This is unusual in itself, because I rarely use anthologies, preferring instead to go straight to the original sources themselves.I like Barash's approach, though, because it tries to be inclusive as possible.

The anthology begins by looking at the definitions and possible causes of war, moves on to analyses of how to prevent war (negative peace), then to considerations of how to create structures of justice that eliminate the necessary conditions for war (positive peace).The rest of the book is devoted to readings that discuss nonviolence, religious pacifism, and historical peace movements.All of these general categories are exactly what one would want in a "peace studies" text.

The problem is that the readings included in each category aren't always the best (or at least aren't the ones I would've selected).The single best two sets of readings are in the chapters on positive peace and nonviolence.The single worst (and I do mean *worst*!) set of readings are when Barash deals with religious pacifism (it's as if he feels uncomfortable in this arena).In the section on peace movements, Vaclav Havel's essay is the single best piece, but one wonders why it(and perhaps the entire chapter) doesn't serve as the prologue to the anthology.

Still, no anthology perfectly pleases everyone.Barash's is the best one out there I've discovered.Perhaps some changes will be made in a second edition.Regardless, I highly recommend this book. ... Read more

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This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses of peace. ... Read more

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Great Bible Study
Looked through the Bible Study since I didn't order the book with it (it is on its way).Looks like it is going to be great bible study.

The Excellent Wife
This is a very good book with great principles.Some of the content is a bit far fetched at times, but overall, it really gets to the "heart issue" of being a wife in the sight of God.I would recommend it as a group study with other women though.Great book!

For the sincere at heart
A perfect in-depth review of the book to help burn God's plan for wives on our hearts.

Life Changing!
I'm personally involved in a Bible study that revolves around this book.I am closer than ever to my husband.I feel that God has used this author to reach out to women to clarify HIS plan of marriage, unity, and Holy Submission.

Submission to my husband does NOT mean I'm a weak, spineless jelly fish who has no input into my life.

Submission is recogizing my husband's authority and keeping our marriage together with team players!

I would HIGHLY recommend this to ANY wife whether a newlywed or a golden oldie!!

When this book is PROPERLY used, and kept in it's intended context, the woman doing this Bible study has only to benefit from its words.

This IS NOT a biblical approach to the Excellent Wife
How disheartened I was when I read in Peace's book that women do not glorify God but ONLY their husbands!As a seminarian and someone who is doing thorough research on the Proverbs 31 woman as a mentor for us Christian women (young), I was, simply put, outraged about the misuse of scripture--what one would call prooftext-ing (when someone uses random parts of scripture to prove a point not necessarily made by the context of that passage).With the emphasis on "by your will" you can become this excellent wife, I would like to state that this is in accurate.It is not by will but by the grace we become better Christians.In Galatians we read what the fruits of the flesh are and what the fruits of the spirit are, Paul also informs us that it is the Spirit working in us.When reading Proverbs 31:10-31, we have to read it bottom up.We have to start with Proverbs 31:30: "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised." (ESV).For this is the verse that shows us what a Proverbs 31 woman is and guides us--as women--as to how we become this woman; it is not through the works that she does, it is through her trust in, fear and reverence of the Lord.It is only through this fear in the lord that we can become Godly woman, thus, Godly wives.It is by no act of our own will that this transformation will occur.It is through Fear of the Lord that we are transformed.

The proverbs 31 woman is not a mold to fit each of us into; she is a glimpse of restoration--the glimpse of restoration of God and Woman...Since the fall and before Christ, woman and God were separated, their relationship severed.Women were, according to the curse in Genesis, put under their husbands.Yet, let us rejoice!For Christ has restored our broken relationship.We can dance and sing and know our freedom to sit at God's feet, to learn torah, to commune with the One and Holy God, YWHW...with Our Lord and Savior.We can, because of Christ's life, person and work, grasp the Word and inwardly digest it, allowing It to transform us and reshape us.Read Luke 10:38-42, see how Mary is praised for sitting in the position that is reserved for a disciple.The long reign of woman restricted to the domestic life was ended at that moment.Yes, I believe that women should not neglect their wifery or mothering duties--if God has so blessed you, heed the words of Paul, the great Apostle; yet, know that this choice is out of freedom, is out of Grace bestowed upon you by Christ!.

Why does her, the P31 woman, husband have full trust in her?Not because she is submitted to him but because she is submitted to God!A submitted Christian Woman is a beautiful gem in deed; she is Eve restored--yet, not in full...we've still have to wait...Thus, no one will ever be, without the Second Coming, a full P31 woman.

And, YES THERE IS MUTUAL SUBMISSION!Ephesians 5 clearly states, in English and in Greek, that we are to submit one to the other...Submission is a requirement for all men and women branded as Christian.We are to be, each of us, least of all.Husbands are to submit to their wives by laying their life down for them as Christ laid His life down for the Church; and, they are to love their wives as their own body.Women are to submit to their husbands by respecting them and allowing them to be men--yes, he is in authority, but it's a loving and cherishing authority...as he has authority over his own body.They love us as their own body and we respect them.We need to read the historical and cultural context of the "submission" passages and know why Paul was writing what he wrote to those specific churches.

One cannot and should not randomly select texts and passages to prove one's point.This is what this book does.Thus, it becomes discredited.

Also, the book jumps to conclusions and uses basic Christian life scripture and twists it to form to the use in wifery.

My heart grieves for all women who are trying to be a Godly Wife by their own will; failure is imminent.
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tangled conflicts
The book collects chapters by various authors on conflicts often arising out of ethnic bases. Where perhaps one ethnic group, localised in a region within a given country, and an overall minority in that country, might want to secede in order to establish their "own" nation. Examples include the late Yugoslavia, and the series of seccession wars that engulfed it. But it is not the present that is studied. One chapter looks at Europe in the 19th century, and the imperialisms then present. Where these encompassed many minorities. The classic example is Austria-Hungary.

What is not studied are cases where a region wanted succession, but the rest of the country merely waited this out. Like Western Australia in 1933-5. This particular instance was also not ethnic-based, but strictly regional-based.

Some chapters warn of the dangers of ethnic-based politics. Inasmuch as the temptation to unravel a country's neighbour via encouraging the latter's peoples might lead that neighbour to do likewise to the former. ... Read more

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The contributors of this book suggest methodologies for a systematic analysis of historical examples, using controlled observation, the collection of evidence, and careful inferences. ... Read more

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A Good Introduction to Scientific Study !
This book is very interesting.It is very comprehensive in its organization, especially for those who are interested in scientific study of peace and war.This book consists of several articles from many famouspeace researchers,and the best part is both the editors put somecomments, classified into findings and methodological description, evenexplanation of the articles presented. All in all, I would recommend thisbook for all students of IR who are interested in quantitative IR. ... Read more

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Since it sprang from obscurity to international headlines in 2004, the name "Darfur" has become synonymous with war, massacre, and humanitarian crisis. The crisis had, however, been brewing for far longer, its causes neglected by both scholars and Sudanese leaders.

War in Darfur and the Search for Peace is a series of essays by leading Sudanese and international specialists on Darfur, combining original research and analysis. The book provides in-depth analysis of the origins and dimensions of the conflict, including detailed accounts of the evolution of ethnic and religious identities, the breakdown of local administration, the emergence of Arab militia and resistance movements, and regional dimensions to the conflict.

The study also focuses on the search for peace, with contributions by those most closely engaged in local and international efforts to resolve the conflict. This includes documentation and analysis of the warring parties' ideologies and agendas and how they have changed in the course of the conflict, and examination of the efforts made by Sudanese civil and political leaders, the African Union, and other international actors to bring the war to an end.

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A thorough look
This important book rbings together the scholarship of many authors to offer insight into all facets of the Darfur conflict and its history and why the world should have paid attention sooner.One of the greatest human crises of the first decade of the 21st century, Darfur is the latest genocide to follow on the heels of Rwanda and Cambodia, in which the West did nothing to prevent the same genocide everyone declared would never happen againa fter the Holocaust.

Instead 200,000-400,000 are dead and a million are refugees and neighboring states from Chad to the Central African Republic are being torn asunder by the conflict which pits the genocidal Janjaweed Arab militias against the poor African people of Darfur.This is not a war over religion, although the history shows that the Arab Muslims who invaded Sudan in the 8th century have long considered the black muslims as inferior as as 'abd' or slaves.It is not truly about resources, as Ban Ki Moon has said.It is, in fact, a well coordinated, government supported genocide.

Seth J. Frantzman ... Read more

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In a world where boundaries and borders are blurred and seemingly distant threats can metastasize quickly, the battle against global poverty has become a fight of necessity--not simply because morality demands it, but because global security does as well.Just as poverty begets insecurity, the reverse is also true.Too Poor for Peace? explores this damaging pattern of mutual reinforcement in its many different facets, bringing the latest lessons and intellectual framework to bear in the search for vehicles to improve both economic conditions and physical security.

Contributors:Colin E. Kahl (Georgetown University), Vinca La Fleur (Vinca La Fleur Communications), Edward Miguel (University of California, Berkeley), Jane Nelson (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard), Anthony Nyong (International Development Research Centre, Nairobi), Susan E. Rice (Brookings), Robert I. Rotberg (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard and World Peace Foundation), Marc Sommers (Tufts University and Boston University), Henrik Urdal (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo), and Jennifer L. Windsor (Freedom House).

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This intensively researched volume covers a previously neglected aspect of American history: the foreign policy perspective of the peace progressives, a bloc of dissenters in the U.S. Senate, between 1913 and 1935. The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations is the first full-length work to focus on these senators during the peak of their collective influence. Robert David Johnson shows that in formulating an anti-imperialist policy, the peace progressives advanced the left-wing alternative to the Wilsonian agenda.

The experience of World War I, and in particular Wilson's postwar peace settlement, unified the group behind the idea that the United States should play an active world role as the champion of weaker states. Senators Asle Gronna of North Dakota, Robert La Follette and John Blaine of Wisconsin, and William Borah of Idaho, among others, argued that this anti-imperialist vision would reconcile American ideals not only with the country's foreign policy obligations but also with American economic interests. In applying this ideology to both inter-American and European affairs, the peace progressives emerged as the most powerful opposition to the business-oriented internationalism of the decade's Republican administrations, while formulating one of the most comprehensive critiques of American foreign policy ever to emerge from Congress.

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Great Book
Everything we thought it would be and more.Great Book!Quick delivery too!

My God
M. Peace has taught me something I never realized - the younger women of today struggle with life because no one has decided to be a Titus 2 woman. Thereare women everywhere seeking the knowledge of how to be a wife, a mother, a worshipper of God. This book offers women the wisdom to become all of that and more. It challenges you to seek wisdom and understanding of the role of being a Christian woman, a Titus woman. The older women are here on Earth to disciple the younger women, to encourage and help them when needed. Praise God for this woman to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Excellent Book!!
This book is one of the most practical tools for learning to be a mentor that I have ever read. Martha Peace presents her study in such a way that anyone can understand and apply her principles. And her principles are only a reflection of the ONE reflection that we are suppose to be!! Wonderful for a ladies bible study!!!

A Woman's Call to Serve
I would highly recommend this book to every believing woman who is confused or unaware of her God-given responsibility of service in the Church.

Legalistic--promoting domestic violence
I did not like this book at all. It is extremely legalistic and teaches that if a woman is a domestic violence victim, her ONLY response or recourse is prayer. I wonder how many women in those situations have been injured or killed while praying. ... Read more

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In 1795 Immanuel Kant published an essay entitled "Toward Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch." The immediate occasion for the essay was the March 1795 signing of the Treaty of Basel by Prussia and revolutionary France, which Kant condemned as only "the suspension of hostilities, not a peace." In the essay, Kant argues that it is humankind's immediate duty to solve the problem of violence and enter into the cosmopolitan ideal of a universal community of all peoples governed by the rule of law.

The essay's two-hundredth anniversary, 1995, also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II and of the establishment of the Charter of the United Nations. The essays in this volume were written for a conference held in Frankfurt in May 1995 to commemorate these three anniversaries. Together, the authors argue for the continued theoretical and practical relevance of the cosmopolitan ideals of Kant's essay. They also show that history has both confirmed and outstripped Kant's prognoses. As recent events have shown, we certainly have not emerged from the violence of the state of nature. Accelerating globalization also gives these reconstructions and reappraisals of Kant's cosmopolitan ideal a new urgency.

Contributors:
Karl-Otto Apel, Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman, Jürgen Habermas, David Held, Axel Honneth, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Thomas McCarthy, Martha Nussbaum. ... Read more

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The twentieth century was the most bloody in history, and already conflict in this century has taken a heavy toll. Most wars are now within countries rather than between states, and often it is civilians that suffer most, especially women and children.

This is an invaluable guide for students, peace groups, and activists. It examines the changing types of war, including the war on terror and ethnic conflict such as in Rwanda, the role of diplomacy and the UN, and what steps ordinary people are taking to rebuild communities. It offers ideas and inspiration for creating lasting peace.

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As the boomer generation moves onward through the milestones of life, 1960s nostalgia holds tremendous meaning today. And nothing more eloquently symbolizes the counterculture era than the peace sign. How did this simple sketch become so powerful an image? Peace: The Biography of a Symbol tells the surprising story of the sign in words and pictures, from its origins in the nuclear disarmament efforts of the late 1950s to its adoption by the antiwar movement of the 1960s, through its stint as a mass-marketed commodity and its enduring relevance now.

As the symbol’s popularity blossomed, so did an entire generation, and author Ken Kolsbun’s expertly selected images—from his own collections as well as a variety of historical archives—illustrate both the sign itself and the larger history that it helped to shape. Along the way, the book recounts the controversy inspired by the peace symbol, bringing to light several trials that challenged its very existence. Drawing on exclusive archival interviews with Gerald Holtom, the late creator of the symbol, Peace recounts its birth and goes on to build a historic portrait using both iconic and rarely seen photographs.

With guaranteed appeal for audiences who flocked to Hippie several years ago, Peace will also capture fans of symbology, art, and history—and will pose an interesting counterpoint to the 2008 election. The compact trim size and low price point will help to position Peace as both affordable gift and easy impulse purchase. ... Read more