Approaches to peace: a reader in peace studies/
edited by David P. Barash
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- vii, 271 p. ; 26 cm.
Introduction 1. Approaches to War Why War?, Sigmund Freud On Aggression, Konrad Z. Lorenz Warfare is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity, Margaret Mead War and Other Essays, William Graham Sumner The Guns of August, Margaret Tushman Victims of Groupthink, Irving Janis The Causes of War, Michael Howard A Structural Theory of Imperialism, John Galtung National Images and International Systems, Kenneth Boulding Glamorized Nationalism: Some Examples in Poetry Redefining Security: The New Global Schisms, Michael T. Klare Study Questions Suggested Reading 2. Building "Negative Peace" The Moral Equivalent of War, William James Getting to YES, Roger Fisher & William Ury Disarmament Demands GRIT, Charles Osgood The Conduct of Just and Limited War, William V. O'Brien The Game of Disarmament, Alva Myrdal The Gift of Time, Jonathon Schell Finding the Future: The Rolse of Economic Conversion in Shaping the Twenty-First Century, Lloyd J. Dumas International Law, David P. Barash The Evolution of United National Peacekeeping, Marrack Goulding Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant Study Questions Suggested Readings 3. Building "Positive Peace" The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold Human Rights, David P. Barash The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, P. Friere An Agenda for Change, Oxfam Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.) Study Questions Suggested Readings 4. Nonviolence Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau Letter to Ernst Howard Crosby, Leo Tolstoy Conscientious Objector, Edna St. Vincent Millay Neither Victims Nor Executioners, Albert Camus Ahimsa, or the Way of Nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi Civilian Resitance as a National Defense, Gene Sharp Study Questions Suggested Readings 5. Religious Inspiration The Bhagavad Gita, Hindu Tao De Ching, Taoist Being Peace: Richt Nhat Hanh, Buddhist The Old Testament, Jewish The New Testament, Christian Holy Disobedience, A.J. Muste A Devout Meditation on Behalf of Adolf Eichmann, Thomas Menton A Christian's View of the Arms Race, George F. Kennan Study Questions Suggested Readings 6. Peace Movements, Transformations, and the Future Peace Movements in History, Nigel Young Building Utopias in History, Elise Boulding On Humane Governance, Richard Falk Sexism and the War System, Betty Reardon The Politics of Responsibility, Vaclav Havel A Few Poetic Visions Study Questions Suggested Readings