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  • Radicalisation and Counter-Radicalisation in Higher Education

    by Catherine McGlynn, Shaun McDaid ...
    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Higher education institutions have increasingly been identified as potentially radicalising locations. The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act consolidated this belief in the form of a legal duty of "due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". This duty made engagement with counter-radicalisation mandatory for universities and has required the development of systems that ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Abandoning historical conflict?

    Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    by Peter Shirlow, Jon Tonge, James McAuley, Catherine McGlynn ...
    Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are ‘top-down’, relying upon the views of political elites. This book is ‘bottom-up’, analysing the voices of those who actually ‘fought the war’. What made them fight, why did they stop and what ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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  • This Is an Uprising

    How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

    by Mark Engler, Paul Engler ...
    In a book that has become a modern classic of social movement organizing, Mark and Paul Engler explain that there is a craft to uprising—and that this craft can change the world.From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to #BlackLivesMatter and movements to defend democracy, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • An Unfinished Foundation

    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

    by Ken Conca ...
    Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Peace

    A History of Movements and Ideas

    by David Cortright ...
    Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright offers a definitive history of the human striving for peace and an analysis of its religious and intellectual roots. This authoritative, balanced, and highly readable volume traces the rise of peace advocacy and internationalism from their origins in earlier centuries through the mass movements of recent decades: the pacifist campaigns of the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Jewish History, Jewish Religion

    The Weight of Three Thousand Years

    by Israel Shahak ...
    Series series Get Political
    Israel Shahak was a remarkable man. Born in the Warsaw ghetto and a survivor of Belsen, Shahak arrived in Israel in 1945. Brought up under Jewish Orthodoxy and Hebrew culture, he consistently opposed the expansion of the borders of Israel from 1967.In this extraordinary and highly acclaimed book, Shahak embarks on a provocative study of the extent to which the secular state of Israel has been ... Read more

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  • Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace

    Silencing the Guns

    by Chris Alden, Doctor Monika Thakur, Matthew Arnold ...
    Militias have proven to be a consistent and enduring challenge to achieving peace in war zones around the world. Whether armed by embattled governments in defence of their territory or fostered by external actors in the interests of greed or grievance, these groups occupy an uncertain and deeply controversial position in the changing landscape of conflict.Linked variously to atrocities against ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Handbook of Intelligence Studies

    Edited by Loch K. Johnson ...
    This topical volume offers a comprehensive review of secret intelligence organizations and activities.Intelligence has been in the news consistently since 9/11 and the Iraqi WMD errors. Leading experts in the field approach the three major missions of intelligence: collection-and-analysis; covert action; and counterintelligence. Within each of these missions, the dynamically written essays dissect ... Read more

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  • Stable Peace

    by Kenneth E. Boulding ...
    The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dreaming War

    Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta

    by Gore Vidal ...
    Series series Nation Books
    When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Geographies of Peace

    New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution

    Edited by Nick Megoran, Fiona McConnell, Philippa Williams ...
    From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • The Future of African Peace Operations

    From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram

    Edited by Cedric De Coning, Linnéa Gelot, John Karlsrud ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Facing threats ranging from Islamist insurgencies to the Ebola pandemic, African regional actors are playing an increasingly vital role in safeguarding peace and stability across the continent. But while the African Union has demonstrated its ability to deploy forces on short notice and in difficult circumstances, the challenges posed by increasingly complex conflict zones have revealed a widening ... Read more

    $32.39 USD