Conflict & Peace

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Beauty that Hurts Life and Death in Guatemala Between The Lines	When A Beauty That Hurts first appeared in 1995, Guatemala was one of the world’s most flagrant violators of human rights. An accord brokered by the United Nations brought a measure of …	W. George Lovell	288	2019	View
Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division New Society Publishers	Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are threatening to pull the world apart. Responding to fear and aggression strategically and with …	Matthew Legge	352	2019	View
Disarming Conflict Why Peace Cannot Be Won on the Battlefield Between The Lines	Wars fought over the past quarter century have been a spectacular failure. The overwhelming majority end in military stalemate and are settled at the negotiating table, with the grievances that …	Ernie Regehr	232	2015	View
From Bombs to Books The remarkable stories of refugee children and their families at two exceptional Canadian schools James Lorimer and Company	This book chronicles how schools in Canada can #&8212; and do — play a positive role in the day-to-day lives of refugee families. Written by a principal who has worked at of two of the …	David Starr	232	2016	View
Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East From European Colony to US Power Projection Platform Baraka Books	One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft …	Stephen Gowans	252	2019	View
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick A defining conflict for Canada's political culture Formac Publishing	The American refugees who fled north to Canada after Britain’s defeat by the revolutionary U.S. army were determined to build a culture separate from the U.S. By their numbers and their …	David Bell	184	2013	View
Oil and World Politics The real story of today's conflict zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and more James Lorimer and Company	This book identifies the underlying role played by the oil and gas resource and the oil industry in international affairs, with a focus on recent conflict zones. It discusses military …	John Foster	280	2018	View
Patriots, Traitors and Empires The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom Baraka Books	“In the night of our ignorance, North Korea confirms all stereotypes.”—Bruce Cumings Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the …	Stephen Gowans	272	2018	View
Pay No Heed to the Rockets Palestine in the Present Tense Goose Lane Editions	Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of …	Marcello Di Cintio	264	2018	View
Peacemakers How people around the world are building a world free of war James Lorimer and Company	A world without war: this is the vision that Douglas Roche has pursued for decades. A long-time Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, Canadian ambassador for disarmament, and later a …	Douglas Roche	224	2014	View
The Hope that Remains Canadian Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide Véhicule Press	Every immigrant that comes to Canada has a story. This book captures ten of those stories and the remarkable resiliency and fortitude of the human spirit. In 1994 one of the worst genocides in …	Christine Magill	192	2019	View
The Mediator’s Toolkit Formulating and Asking Questions for Successful Outcomes New Society Publishers	Learn how to formulate and ask penetrating, paradigm-shifting questions for successful outcomes in any conflict. Knowing how to formulate and ask incisive questions to get to the core of a …	Gerry O'Sullivan	258	2018	View
The Memory We Could Be Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future New Society Publishers	Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	338	2018	View
The Myth of the Good War America in the Second World War James Lorimer and Company	Was the role of the United States in the Second World War an essentially idealistic one, a crusading struggle to conquer the dark forces of German fascism and Japanese militarism? Was it an …	Jacques R. Pauwels	328	2015	View
The United Nations in the 21st Century Grappling with the world's most challenging issues: militarism, the environment, human rights, inequality James Lorimer and Company	After more than seven decades, the United Nations embodies humanity’:s hopes for peace, security, social justice, human rights, equality for women, and a voice for all. At the same time, …	Douglas Roche	98	2015	View
Washington’s Long War on Syria Baraka Books	When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The …	Stephen Gowans	280	2017	View