Conflict & Peace

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Using this Book From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	This chapter lays out the structure behind the book and how it intends to guide readers toward actions that individuals can take through many practice activities that are best done in a study …	Matthew Legge	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From Violence in Social Change From: Are We Done Fighting? View New Society Publishers	In this chapter about examining the role of violence in bringing about social change, the author provides evidence that nonviolent campaigns are more effective for social change, in part because …	Matthew Legge	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From Waiting Absurd Nicosia/Lefkoşa From: Walls View Goose Lane Editions	The author travels to Cyprus and discusses the wall that divides its territory and the Turkish and Greek Cypriots. He explores the history of this wall and the conflict between these two groups, …	Marcello Di Cintio	31	2013	$3.10 Add
From Wall Street’s Empire From: Washington's Long War on Syria View Baraka Books	The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear …	Stephen Gowans	20	2017	$2.00 Add
Walls Travels Along the Barricades	Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, …		288		View
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