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Book The Gaia Peace Atlas

Download or read book The Gaia Peace Atlas written by Frank Barnaby and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gaia Peace Atlas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Barnaby
  • Publisher : Main Street Books
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780385241915
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book The Gaia Peace Atlas written by Frank Barnaby and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Especially timely in this year of the U.N. special sessions on disarmament, this scrupulously researched text is a challenging and authoritative study of the prospects for peace and survival into the next millennium. 48 pages of four-color art, 160 of two-color.

Book The Gaia Peace Atlas

Download or read book The Gaia Peace Atlas written by Frank Barnaby and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gaia Peace Atlas

Download or read book The Gaia Peace Atlas written by Frank Barnaby and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta Authorized resource for grade 10-12 1990-1998.

Book Peace

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  • Author : Antony Adolf
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-05-08
  • ISBN : 0745654592
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Peace written by Antony Adolf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A World History is the first study to explore the full spectrum of peace and peacemaking from prehistoric to contemporary times in a single volume aimed at improving their prospects. By focusing on key periods, events, people, ideas and texts, Antony Adolf shows how the inspiring possibilities and pragmatic limits of peace and peacemaking were shaped by their cultural contexts and, in turn, shaped local and global histories. Diplomatic, pacifist, legal, transformative non-violent and anti-war movements are just a few prominent examples. Proposed and performed in socio-economic, political, religious, philosophical and other ways, Adolf's presentation of the diversity of peace and peacemaking challenges the notions that peace is solely the absence of war, that this negation is the only task of peacemakers, and that history is exclusively written by military victors. “Without the victories of peacemakers and the resourcefulness of the peaceful,” he contends, “there would be no history to write.” This book is essential reading for students, scholars, policy-shapers, activists and general readers involved with how present forms of peace and peacemaking have been influenced by those of the past, and how future forms can benefit by taking these into account.

Book Building a More Democratic United Nations

Download or read book Building a More Democratic United Nations written by Frank Barnaby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings, from the 1990 CAMDUN conference cover the structure of the UN, NGOs and the roles of UNAs, communication globally through the UN, and restructuring the UN.

Book A Natural History of Peace

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  • Author : Thomas Gregor
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780826512802
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book A Natural History of Peace written by Thomas Gregor and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and innovative consideration of the concept, causes, and practice of peace in societies both ancient and modern, human and primate. We know a great deal about aggression, conflict, and war, but relatively little about peace, partially because it has been such a scarce phenomenon throughout history and in our own times. Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace requires special relationships, structures, and attitudes to promote and protect it. A Natural History of Peace provides the first broadly interdisciplinary examination of peace as viewed from the perspectives of social anthropology, primatology, archeology, psychology, political science, and economics. Among other notable features, this volume offers: a major theory concerning the evolution of peace and violence through human history; an in-depth comparative study of peaceful cultures with the goal of discovering what it is that makes them peaceful; one of the earliest reports of a new theory of the organization and collapse of ancient Maya civilization; a comparative examination of peace from the perspective of change, including the transition of one of the world's most violent societies to a relatively peaceful culture, and the decision-making process of terrorists who abandon violence; and a theory of political change that sees the conclusion of wars as uniquely creative periods in the evolution of peace among modern nations.

Book Breathing  Violence In  Peace Out

Download or read book Breathing Violence In Peace Out written by Ivana Milojevic and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the long-term impact of transgenerational trauma and the possibilities for healing, this book explores the links between personal histories and world events and helps us to understand life’s dualities: violence and peace, self and other, stability and change, slavery and freedom. Author Ivana Milojevic asks How does violence change us? Is it possible to change the inner landscape of one’s thinking in the midst of pain and suffering? and If this is our past, how might our future be different? Oscillating between two voices, Milojevic journeys between the personal (“breathing in”), which describes her experience of violence; while the second academic voice (“breathing out”) tries to make sense of it. The rhythm created by inhaling and exhaling reflects not only what we take from the world but also what we give back to it. Breathing is an inquiry into alternative futures as Milojevic explores a range of possibilities, both for each of us personally, and for the world.

Book Future Survey Annual 1990

Download or read book Future Survey Annual 1990 written by Michael Marien and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civilization s Crisis  A Set Of Linked Challenges

Download or read book Civilization s Crisis A Set Of Linked Challenges written by Avery John Scales and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book. Contents: Economics, Ethics and EcologyThreats to the Environment and Climate ChangeGrowing Population, Vanishing ResourcesThe Global Food and Refugee CrisisIntolerable Economic InequalityThe Threat of Nuclear WarFacing a Set of Linked ProblemsOutlawing WarThe Evolution of CooperationEducation for PeaceThe Future of International LawThe Choice is Ours to Make Readership: Readers interested in an overview of world issues and a brief history of their origins.

Book Redeeming the Time

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  • Author : Stephen Bede Scharper
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 1998-06-01
  • ISBN : 144116796X
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Redeeming the Time written by Stephen Bede Scharper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thoughtful and interesting contribution to environmental theology literature." --Choice "Richly informative and provocative." --Review for Religious "Stephen Bede Scharper has added a significant new book to the growing collection of Christian ecotheological offerings....an admirable job of summarizing the main strands of Christian environmental theologies and highlighting the most valuable contributions of each....heartfelt...There is much to celebrate in this book!...presents a comprehensible and accessible guide to the major varieties of what Scharper calls 'Christian ecological theology.'...In this book he succeeds not just in coherently summarizing a number of the most important voices in ecotheology, but also in giving us a blueprint for the changed consciousness necessary to motivate a conversion from our destructive earth-damaging behavior to a more earth-friendly way of living." --Worldviews

Book The Illusion of Progress

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  • Author : Alexander Gillespie
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-10-14
  • ISBN : 1136533621
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The Illusion of Progress written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid, debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are leading down quite a different path to that intended by sustainability.

Book An Introduction to Political Geography

Download or read book An Introduction to Political Geography written by John Rennie Short and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global issues? An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the discipline. Entirely revised and updated, this new edition explores political and geographic change within the same accessible framework. John Short emphasises the need for a fluid approach to the study of the international order, the nation state, as well as social movements. Though the world is becoming smaller, popular access to power remains an elusive goal. An integrated world economy may well perpetuate past inequalities just as political systems continue to work by exclusion. The global village and the ecological approach this implies, must be paid particular attention when examining the political geography of participation. An Introduction to Political Geography reviews the history of the rise and fall of centres of power, draws on a wide range of detailed international case studies to illustrate current trends, and discusses future developments.

Book The Need for a New Economic System

Download or read book The Need for a New Economic System written by John Scales Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear that our present economic system is unsustainable. Never-ending exponential industrial growth on a finite planet is a logical absurdity. We are already using resources at a rate which it would take 1.6 planet earths to replace. We are already undermining the ecological systems which support all of life. Our present economic system has led to an unbelievable degree of economic inequality. To maintain this inequality, both between nations and within nations, military force is used, and democracy is replaced by oligarchy. The future of human civilization is endangered both by the threat of thermonuclear war and by the threat of catastrophic climate change; and both of the twin threats are results of our present economic system. This book documents in detail the serious economic problems of today's world, and it also proposes sustainable solutions.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Women  Peace  and Security

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Women Peace and Security written by Sara E. Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passed in 2000, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and subsequent seven Resolutions make up the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda. This agenda is a significant international normative and policy framework addressing the gender-specific impacts of conflict on women and girls, including protection against sexual and gender-based violence, promotion of women's participation in peace and security processes, and support for women's roles as peace builders in the prevention of conflict and rebuilding of societies after conflict. Implementation within and across states and international organizations - and within peace and security operations - has been slow despite significant transnational advocacy in support of the WPS agenda. The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security brings together scholars, advocates, and policymakers to provide an overview of what we know concerning what works to promote women's participation in peace and security, what works to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence and other human rights violations, and what works to prevent conflict drawing on women's experiences and knowledge of building peace from local to global levels. Just as importantly, it addresses the gaps in knowledge on and the future direction of scholarship on WPS. The handbook particularly aims to build on the findings from the 2015 Global Study of Resolution 1325, commissioned by the UN-Secretary General. Over the course of six sections, the handbook addresses the concepts and early history behind WPS; the theory and practice of WPS; international institutions involved with the WPS agenda; the implementation of WPS in conflict prevention, peace operations, peace building, arms control, human-rights protection, and protection of civilians; connections between WPS and other UN resolutions and agendas; and the ongoing and future challenges of WPS.

Book Collected Essays 3

Download or read book Collected Essays 3 written by John Scales Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a collection of essays and articles by John Scales Avery discussing the severe problems and challenges which the world faces during the 21st century. Human civilization and the biosphere are threatened by catastrophic climate change. Unless rapid steps are taken to replace fossil fuels by 100% renewable energy, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which uncontrollable feedback loops could produce a 6th extinction event comparable to those observed in the geological record. Another serious threat to human civilization and the biosphere is the danger of a catastrophic thermonuclear war. Over a long period of time there is an ever-increasing risk that such a war will occur by accident or miscalculation. Thirdly, there is threat of an extremely serious and widespread famine, produced by the climate change, rapidly-growing populations, and the end of the fossil fuel era. We must urgently address all three challenges.

Book Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm

Download or read book Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm written by Joám Evans Pim and published by Center for Global Nonkilling. This book was released on 2009 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (including anthropology, arts, biology, economics, engineering, geography, health sciences, history, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology and sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline's role in the necessary social and scientific transformation toward a killing-free world--Pub.