Conflict & Peace

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Washington’s Long War on Syria

 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 … 280 View

What We Talk About When We Talk About War

 An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and … 376 View

Worth Fighting For

Canada’s Tradition of War Resistance from 1812 to the War on Terror

 Historians, veterans, museums, and public education campaigns have all documented and commemorated the experience of Canadians in times of war. But Canada also has a long, rich, and important … ; ; 336 View
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From: The Memory We Could Be

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 Looking ahead, one thing is clear: the path we are on is coming to an end. Projections of the coming decades — whether they focus on food supplies, conflicts or weather patterns — … 2 $0.20 Add
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From: Are We Done Fighting?

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 George Lakey, as a professor of peace studies, frames the importance of this book to build our capacity for peace in a world that still views violence as a resolution method in conflicts of all scales. 4 $0.40 Add

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From: The Hope that Remains

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 Will Ferguson explains how he met the author and why telling the stories of Rwandan genocide survivors in Canada is important. 2 $0.20 Add
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Foreword: Objectives and Methodology

From: The Myth of the Good War

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 Outlines the approach to WWII taken in this study, develops his methodology and describes the work as a synthesis. 12 $1.20 Add
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Glossary & Introduction

From: The Mediator's Toolkit

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 This book introduces the S Questions Model, which focuses on the development and asking of questions for clarifying existing information, gathering new information and creating new insight in … 6 $0.60 Add
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Breaking Free From the Bonds of War

From: Peacemakers

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 Outlines what brought him to write this book explaining about the peacekeeping endeavours that have become more prevalent and his qualifications 7 $0.70 Add
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The United Nations and Peace: A fair assessment

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The United Nations and Peace: A fair assessment

From: The United Nations in the 21st Century

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From: Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick

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 1780s. A brief overview of American loyalists and their situation in British Occupied New York after the revolution and the creation of New Brunswick 5 $0.50 Add
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Fighting to Lose

From: Disarming Conflict

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 The record of warfare over the past quarter century makes it abundantly clear that sheer military force rarely achieves the vital political objectives its commanders set out to gain. Such force … 18 $1.80 Add
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War Resistance in Canadian History

From: Worth Fighting For

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 Who “counts” as a war resister? This introductory essay surveys the long history of war resistance in Canada and outlines the complex dynamics of opposing military violence both … ; ; 16 $1.60 Add
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From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East

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