David P. Barash
This reader provides a unique interdisciplinary sampling of key articles focusing on the diverse facets of peace and conflict studies. Featuring both classic and contemporary works, this collection introduces students to the foundations of the discipline, as well as the current direction of peace
studies.
Note: Each chapter ends with Study Questions and Suggestions for Further Reading.
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Preface NEW
Introduction: Approaches to Approaches to Peace
1. Understanding War
1. Why War?, Sigmund Freud
2. Warfare Is Only an Invention - Not a Biological
Necessity, Margaret Mead
3. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges
4. War and Other Essays, William Graham Sumner
5. Victims of Groupthink, Irving Janis
6. The Causes of War, Michael Howard
7. National Images and International Systems, Kenneth Boulding
8. The
Clash of Civilizations, Samuel P. Huntington
9. How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion, Michael Klare *
10. Battlefields of the Future, Peter W. Singer
11. The Revisionist Imperative: Rethinking Twentieth-Century Wars, Andrew Bacevich
2. Building
"Negative Peace"
1. The Moral Equivalent of War, William James
2. Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
3. Disarmament Demands GRIT, Charles Osgood
4. Ten Nuclear Myths, David Krieger and Angela McCrackien
5. A World Free of Nuclear Weapons, George P.
Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn
6. A Powerful Peace, Jonathan Schell
7. Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Jobs for All, Seymour Melman *
8. International Law, David P. Barash
9. Just War Doctrine, from Catholic Answers
10. Reforming the UN for the
21st Century, Vijay Mehta *
11. Violence Vanquished, Steven Pinker
12. Life Without War?, Douglas P. Fry
3. Responding to Terrorism
1. The Evil Scourge of Terrorism: Reality, Construction, Remedy, Noam Chomsky
2. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours, Eqbal Ahmad
3. The U.S.
Response to Terrorism, Haviland Smith
4. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, Robert Pape
5. The True Spirit of Jihad, Sarah Ahmad *
4. Building "Positive Peace"
1. The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold
2. Speech to the United Nations, 2015, Pope Francis *
3.
How to Judge Globalism, Amartya Sen *
4. Human Rights, David P. Barash
5. Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.
6. Feminist Politics: Where We Stand, bell hooks *
5. Nonviolence
1. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
2. Letter to Ernest Howard
Crosby, Leo Tolstoy
3. Conscientious Objector, Edna St. Vincent Millay
4. Neither Victims nor Executioners, Albert Camus
5. The Gospel of Nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi *
6. Seeking a Solution to the Problem of War, Gene Sharp
7. Soft Power, Joseph S. Nye Jr. *
6. Peace
Movements, Transformation, and the Future
1. On Humane Governance, Richard Falk
2. Sexism and the War System, Betty Reardon
3. A Human Approach to World Peace, Dalai Lama
4. Empire v. Democracy: Why Nemesis is at Our Door, Chalmers Johnson *
5. No Future Without Forgiveness,
Desmond Tutu
6. World Government, David P. Barash
7. How Economic Growth has Become Antilife, Vandana Shiva *
8. Antiwar Activists, Where Are You?, Victoria A. Bonney
Index
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David P. Barash is Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Out of Eden (OUP, 2016), Buddhist Biology (OUP, 2013), and Homo Mysterious (OUP, 2012).
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