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“shannon d beebe”

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  • The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon

    Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace

    by Shannon D. Beebe, Mary H. Kaldor ...
    The twenty-first century has seen millions unemployed. It has seen livelihoods undermined by environmental degradation. Middle-class cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa have become cauldrons of violence and resentment. Tribalism, ethnic nationalism, and religious fundamentalism have flared dangerously, from Russia to Spain. The use of force is unlikely to help. What works when counter-insurgency ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Blueprint for Revolution

    How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World

    by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller ...
    An urgent and accessible handbook for peaceful protesters, activists, and community organizers—anyone trying to defend their rights, hold their government accountable, or change the worldBlueprint for Revolution will teach you how to• make oppression backfire by playing your opponents’ strongest card against them• identify the “almighty pillars of power” in order to shift the balance of control• ... Read more

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  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

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  • Beyond the White House

    Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    The president’s personal and passionate account of his twenty-five years in the service of humanitarian effort that won him the Nobel Peace Prize was received with the admiring respect of reviewers and readers and it will stand as the record of his brilliant post-presidential career.This is the story of President Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation’s ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

  • 2048

    Humanity's Agreement To Live Together: The International Movement for Enforceable Human Rights

    by J. Kirk Boyd ...
    Creating an enforceable international guarantee of basic human rightsOutlines the basics of a universally acceptable agreementShows what everyone can do to make this agreement a realityIn 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a deeply inspiring document that has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects. But because its provisions ... Read more

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  • Army of None

    Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World

    by Aimee Allison, David Solnit ...
    Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Quality Peace

    Peacebuilding, Victory and World Order

    by Peter Wallensteen ...
    Series series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding
    In Quality Peace, leading peace researcher Peter Wallensteen offers a broad analysis of peacebuilding, isolating what does and not work when settling conflicts. The book uses statistical analysis to compare two war outcomes-negotiated settlement and victory- in the post-Cold War era. Wallensteen finds that if peace is to last, three conditions must be met: a losing party must retain its dignity; ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Indefensible

    Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade

    by Paul Holden ...
    Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy. Not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, support it for these reasons.Indefensible puts forward a devastating challenge to this conventional wisdom, which has normalised the ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD

  • Ethics and Global Security

    A cosmopolitan approach

    by Anthony Burke, Katrina Lee-Koo, Matt McDonald ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Security Studies
    This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security.Questions of morality and ethics have long been central to global security, from the death camps, world wars and H-bombs of the 20th century, to the humanitarian missions, tsunamis, terrorism and refugees ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Small Arms, Crime and Conflict

    Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence

    Edited by Owen Greene, Nic Marsh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book focuses on the use of small arms in violence and attempts by the state to govern the use and acquisition of these weapons.It is likely that hundreds of thousands of people are killed every year as a result of armed violence – in contexts ranging from war zones to domestic violence. This edited volume examines why these deaths occur, the role of guns and other weapons, and how governance ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD