Conflict & Peace

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Warrior Nation From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic …	Noah Richler	80	2012	$8.00 Add
From Wars and Rumours of Wars How Wars Start From: Disarming Conflict View Between The Lines		Ernie Regehr	21	2015	$2.10 Add
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
From Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific From: Patriots, Traitors and Empires View Baraka Books	Chapter eleven, Washington’s Power Projection Platform in the Pacific focuses on the shift in shift in politics in South Korea by 1993. The Berlin Wall had fallen, the German Democratic …	Stephen Gowans	10	2018	$1.00 Add
From Washington’s State Islamic Allies From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	Most people in the West remember the Arab Spring protests as touching the Arab republics—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and of course, Libya and Syria. They seldom remember, or know at all, that …	Stephen Gowans	15	2017	$1.50 Add
From Water, Water, Clean Water — But Not Everywhere From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Maude Barlow next focuses on the alarming shrinkage and pollution of Canada’s fresh water supply, a precious resource which lacks the effective laws and regulations needed to protect it	Maude Barlow	13	2015	$1.30 Add
From What is to be Done? From: What We Talk About When We Talk About War View Goose Lane Editions	The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior …	Noah Richler	46	2012	$4.60 Add
From What Peace Is From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	This final chapter arrives at defining peace, revealing it as a continual and dynamic process rather than a static state. The chapter shifts focus to the concept of peacebuilding to reflect this.	Matthew Legge	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From What Peace is Not From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	This chapter shows the reader that on our journey to understand peace and help it spread, we need to understand more about ourselves and what motivates us to do the things we do. In order to …	Matthew Legge	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From What Then Must We Do? From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	Many of us stumble at the very first question: what can I do? But our failure to find a straightforward answer lies partly in our misdirected question: there isn’t much that individuals …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From What Trade Agreements Have Meant for Canada From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Scott Sinclair and Stuart Trew examine the many free trade agreements our federal government has signed, finding little in them that helps workers or consumers, but a great deal that boosts the …	Scott Sinclair; Stuart Trew	22	2015	$2.20 Add
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
From What’s Natural? From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	This chapter examines the question of how humans naturally relate to violence, considering archeological, anthropological, biological and psychological evidence. The author asserts that the …	Matthew Legge	9	2019	$0.90 Add
From When Hate Rises From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	This chapter considers situations where hate emerges, and uses research to examine and clarify common understandings about why hate has emerged. He provides tips on how to respond to and confront …	Matthew Legge	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From When Prevention Fails Protecting the Vulnerable From: Disarming Conflict View Between The Lines		Ernie Regehr	17	2015	$1.70 Add
From Whenever My Sore Heart Gets Hungry The Quest for Land From: Pay No Heed to the Rockets View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, the author explores the evolution and current situation of the Palestinian poetry scene. He meets and talks to several poets living and working in Palestine.	Marcello Di Cintio	49	2018	$4.90 Add