Peace Movements And Pacifism After September 11

Author : Shin Chiba
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848443838
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Movements and Pacifism After September 11 written by Shin Chiba and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a major contribution to our understanding of peace movements and pacifism after 11 September. While most people tend to take the importance of 11 September for granted, the book challenges the general understanding of the development and implications of the events. . . In addition, the philosophical, religious and theoretical discussion enriches peace research scholarship. Jian Yang, New Zealand International Review Noted international scholars from a range of disciplines present in this book Japanese and East Asian perspectives on the changed prospects for international peace post September 11. Because East Asia has not been preoccupied with the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, the authors views serve as a balance to the war on terror declared in the United States. The book begins with chapters that explore the attacks from an historical perspective, and discuss whether they were indeed watershed events that changed the world. Further chapters explore pacifism in philosophy and religion through Kant, Christianity, Islam and constitutional pacifism in postwar Japan. The concluding chapters discuss concrete ways to move toward peace in the twenty-first century. Scholars of international studies and politics, the Middle East and religion will find this insightful book a valuable addition to their library.

Author : David Potorti
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 0971920648
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows written by David Potorti and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Peace Prize-nominated families of 9-11 victims organizing for peace, against the war on Iraq.

Author : April Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901185
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Movements: International Protest and World Politics Since 1945 written by April Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a long tradition of opposition to war and organized peace campaigns date from 1815. Since 1945, however, modern weapons technology has threatened world wide destruction and has stimulated widespread protests. This book sketches in the background of thinking about peace and resistance to war before 1945, and then examines how public opposition to nuclear weapons and testing grew in the 1950s and early 1960s. Later chapters cover the major ressurgence of nuclear disarmament campaigns in the 1980s. The book also looks at how peace protest has spread from its origins in North America and North West Europe to embrace many parts of the world; opposition to nuclear testing has indeed been particularly strong in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands. The period 1945 to 1990 was dominated by the Cold War between the USA and USSR, and the role of the Soviet-sponsored World Peace Council caused difficulties for indeptendent peace groups in the West. During the 1980s the emergence of autonomous peace activity in a number of East European countries, and even on a very small scale in the USSR itself, transformed the possibilities for East-West co-operation between citizens to urge disarmament and political change. A chapter examines these developments. Opposition to all forms of militarism has spread in the last 30 years. This book charts the struggles to extend the right to conscientious objection to military service, and draft resistance to particular wars - for example in Southern Africa and Israel. It also looks in some detail at the growing opposition to the war in the Vietnam. The recent protests against the Gulf War are surveyed briefly in an epilogue.

Author : Guenter Lewy
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802836403
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace & Revolution written by Guenter Lewy and published by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how four pacifist organizations, the AFSC, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the War Resisters League, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, have given up the ideals of nonviolence to support leftist dictatorships and libera

Author : David Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780961920906
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Peace Movements written by David Adams and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simon Xu-Hui Shen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317573382
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security written by Simon Xu-Hui Shen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its unstable and intermittent nuclear weapon project, and the recent leadership succession issue, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a source of insecurity for the past decade in this region, in addition to the delicate international relations among the powerful China, United States, Japan, and Russia. The essence of DPRK issue lies in the instability and uncertainty of nuclear development that even the slightest miscalculation by any one power could disturb the sensitive balance of relationships, creating a butterfly effect with a catastrophic result. Drawing on various perspectives on the interaction over DPRK and other regional powers, this volume seeks to explore the role of DPRK in Northeast Asia, and its implication to regional security as a whole. The volume does not confirm a particular position over DPRK’s nuclear showdown; rather it invites scholars to provide assessments from the viewpoints of neighbouring powers in order to present a more complete understanding of the leading issue in Northeast Asia. The volume will serve as an invaluable resource for policymakers, students and scholars of North Korean politics and international relations. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Asian Development.

Author : Timothy J. Demy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440873917
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and War written by Timothy J. Demy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war. There is a long and deep relationship between religion, politics, and war in U.S. history. While there is a constitutional and legal separation of religion and the state in American society, religion has been and remains a potent force in American culture and politics affecting many aspects of life, including perspectives on war and peace and the experience of war in U.S. history. From the American Revolution to the wars of the 21st century, religious values have informed and influenced American attitudes toward war and peace and have provided rationale for support and non-support of American participation in conflicts. An overview essay surveys the background and significance of religion in American culture and provides historical context for discussions of contemporary topics. A timeline highlights key events related to wars and conflicts. The volume then includes more than 50 topical essays that discuss specific wars as well as religious themes within culture and politics, ultimately providing a detailed overview of the intersection of religion, war, and politics in contemporary America.

Author : Alexander Laban Hinton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786610396
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Peace written by Alexander Laban Hinton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether “positive” or “negative.” The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined “end”), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them. Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.

Author : Zuleyha Keskin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811645175
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attaining Inner Peace in Islam written by Zuleyha Keskin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses inner peace from an Islamic theological and spiritual perspective, the writings of Said Nursi, a twentieth century Muslim scholar. Inner peace is a topic of great interest in the world at present. While happiness and mental health have been extensively discussed from a psychological and sociological perspective, and while inner peace has been written about from various religious viewpoints, there is very little scholarly work on inner peace from an Islamic theological and spiritual perspective. This book addresses this significant gap. With Islam being the second largest religion in the world, this book provides an important contribution to the literature on a faith tradition which is followed by so many. In addressing the intersection between Islam, spirituality and psychology, this book makes an original contribution to the literature on modern Islamic thinkers like Nursi, and to the broader fields of Islamic studies, and theology, philosophy and well-being studies.

Author : Sara Trovato
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739187198
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mainstreaming Pacifism written by Sara Trovato and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstreaming Pacifism: Conflict, Success, and Ethics covers the history of philosophy concerning successful political means, and proposes an original interpretation of Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Marx and Gandhi. The book counters the objection that pacifism is ineffective, and proposes that pacifism is not for a sect, but rather draws its most effective strategies from, and contributes them to, the mainstream political tradition.