Eyes Wide Open
Although a majority of Americans now believe this war is a tragic misadventure,
the human cost of the Iraq War grows every day. How many more boots will be
standing at silent attention before this war ends, before Iraqis and American soldiers are out of harm's way?Excerpted from http://www.afsc.org/eyes/
about-the-exhibit.htm
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Georgia Peace and Justice
The Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition/Atlanta is a
diverse group of community organizations, faith-based institutions, students, local
organizations, and individuals from across Georgia working for global justice and peace.
We call for foreign and domestic policies leading to true social justice and economic security.
Excerpted from the web page.
The Peace Alliance
The Peace Alliance is a nonpartisan citizen action organization advocating for legislation
that supports a culture of peace. We work to foster positive, proactive change toward the creation of
a more nonviolent and peaceful world.
Excerpted from
http://www.thepeacealliance
.org/content/view/77/118/.
Veterans for Peace
Veterans for Peace "includes men and women veterans from World War II,
Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans. Our
collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and
that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary."
Excerpted from
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/about.htm.
Wikipedia Anti-War
The term anti-war sometimes refers to pacifism, i.e., opposition to all use of military force
during conflicts, but most often is used in the context of opposing one
particular nation's decision to wage war.
Excerpted from the web page.
Wikipedia Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist
and inventor Alfred Nobel. Nobel, whose inventions included dynamite and Ballistite, led to
the death of millions of people. He created the Nobel Prize in an effort to make
up for what he believed to be past evils. According to the will of Alfred Nobel,
the prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the
best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for
the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Excerpted from the web page.
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This is a display about the social, religious, and historical aspects of peace and justice. It covers: the current crisis in the Middle East, the Civil Rights movement, and peace and justice as part of law, religion, and spirituality.
Abraham, S. Daniel. 2006. Peace is possible: conversations with Arab and Israeli leaders from 1988 to the present
. New York: New Market Press.
It's rare to find a political activist who is able to hold two conventionally opposed views in mind,
yet throughout most of this book, Abraham (founder of the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation
and former chairman of Slim-East Foods) manages to do just that. Without denying his Zionist
underpinnings, he addresses the concerns of both Jews and Arabs. Reflecting nearly
20 years of private diplomacy, his book is neither scholarly nor analytical; it reads more
like the private diary of a thinking man with incredible connections to virtually everyone of influence
in Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian politics.
DS119.76.A3482
Jan. 30, 2006. Publisher's Weekly. 253(5) 55-56.
Arsenault, Raymond. 2006. Freedom riders: 1961 and the struggle for racial justice. New York: Oxford
University Press
The incredible courage and determination of young people, black, white, male and female,
who risked great personal danger and even death as they participated in the freedom
rides during the Civil Rights Movement are the focus of this remarkable book. History
is told through the experiences of two young men of disparate backgrounds, one
black--John Lewis, the other white--Jim Zwerg.
E185.61.A69
Oluonye, Mary N. May 2006. School Library Journal. 52(5) 140.
Barasch, Mark Ian. 2005. Field notes on a compassionate life: A search for the soul of kindness.
Erasmus, PA: Rodale.
Writing in a friendly, upbeat voice, Barasch (Healing Dreams) is never pious as he ponders
the meaning of compassion, its healing properties and the wisdom of the compassionate,
from St. Francis and the Dalai Lama to caring individuals in Barasch's own life. Touching
on psychology, social science, and evolutionary biology, Barasch, former editor-in-chief of
New Age Journal, explores his theme in a lively autobiographical style, with firsthand reportage,
such as living temporarily as a homeless person. The compassionate life is not
only liberating, it genuinely feels good, he says.
BJ1531.B27
Feb. 14, 2005. Publisher's Weekly. 252(7) 67.
Boyd, Herb. 2004. We shall overcome. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks.
In 1955, mass actions--boycotts, blood-sheddings, jailings, marches and sit-ins--involving ordinary
people erupted in the southern United States. At first, activists focused on desegregating public accommodation:
seatings at dining places and public transportation facilities. As the "white power structure"
(an oft-used phrase in those days) resisted change, black Americans in the movement sought electoral
power and emphasized securing the right to vote as a main goal.
All of this is the substance of Herb Boyd's We Shall Overcome, a survey of the movement's high points.
E185.61.B774 2004
2005. Black Issues Book Review. 7(1) 68.
Buddhist peacework : Creating cultures of peace. 1999. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications.
Eighteen Buddhist leaders respond here to the recent United Nations document
Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace.
Peace, according to the collection's editor, is more than merely the inner tranquility sometimes
ascribed to Buddhism; it requires the recognition that all beings suffer, and that "we are not separate from others."
BQ4570.P4 B836 1999
April 24, 2000. Publisher's Weekly. 247(17) 87.
Carson, Clayborne. 1995. In struggle: SNCC and the Black awakening of the 1960s.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
In Clayborn Carson, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) has at last
found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic
and prudently critical. The work is tightly structured, extensively researched, and accomplishes what the
author set out to do: study "the ideas that came to life inside SNCC" and
to trace its development "through three stages."
E185.61.C27 1995
2001. American Historical Review 86(5) 175-176.
Carter, Jimmy. 2005. Our endangered values: America's moral crisis. New York: Simon and Schuster
This is a book of reason and tolerance but also of indignation. The former
President draws on his religious faith and political experience to comment wisely
on a wide range of "hot button" issues. Although Carter's tone is patient
and explanatory, his views are bound to be newsworthy and will rekindle some
old fires. He is dismayed by the influence of fundamentalism both in religion and in
politics; as he observes, "Narrowly defined theological beliefs have been adopted as the
rigid agenda of a political party." He further accuses the neoconservatives who
guide the Bush administration of having imperialistic goals. Carter writes at length about
post-9/11 human rights violations, gun control, nuclear proliferation, the death
penalty, the dilution of environmental quality, and the dangers of preemptive war.
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Karel, Thomas A. October 15, 2005. Library Journal. 130(17) 71.
Chapman, Colin Gilbert. Whose holy city? Jerusalem and the future of peace in the Middle East.
2005. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.
In Whose Holy City? Colin Chapman assesses the centrality of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, traces the city's history
from Old Testament times to the contemporary scene, and shows how the issues of the
past are relevant today. Jerusalem is regarded by many as a key, if not the key, to peace in the Middle East.
DS109.9.C453 2005
Description from the book's back cover.
Chopra, Deepak. 2005. Peace is the way: Bringing war and violence to an end. New York: Harmony Books.
This latest work from Chopra (The Book of Secrets) comes armed with praise from the
likes of the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Wayne Dyer, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Chopra is
distressed at the omnipresence of violent conflict in our time and finds his remedy in the
acknowledgment and rejection of the dualities and false sense of self that lie at its root.
Beyond these, he counsels, lies the compassion that will help us reject violence.
BL65.P4.C445
Christian, Graham. March 1, 2005. Library Journal
The Dalai Lama. 2005. The universe in a single atom: The convergence of science
and spirituality. New York: Morgan Road Books.
What are we developing scientifically and why? Do we know if we are spiritually present
when we make such personal and collective decisions? How can we keep our
humility, self-awareness, and a measure of morality where research and development
advancements are concerned? The Dalai Lama asks these human value-based questions
as he ponders the meeting point of science and spirituality, especially as it relates to quality of
life in scientific endeavors.
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Liquori, Lisa 2005. Oct. 1, 2005. Library Journal 130(16) 84-86.
Dershowitz, Alan M. 2005. The case for peace: How the Arab-Israeli conflict can be resolved
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
Harvard law professor Dershowitz has written widely on the conflict in the Middle
East, including his recent The Case for Israel , through which he earned the reputation as a
combative defender of Israel. Here, he combines two goals. First, he quite effectively lays out an analytical case
that peace is achievable in the Middle East with two states in historic Palestine, some border adjustments of the
1967 truce lines, the division of Jerusalem, and a renunciation of violence on all sides. He
asserts that a resolution along these lines is sought by many Israelis and Palestinians and is now possible
after the death of Yasir Arafat. He can't resist his second goal, however, which is to
attack the extremists who obstruct movement toward peace, particularly those he criticizes as racists and hate-mongers
committed to the destruction of Israel.
DS119.76.D47
Sept. 1, 2005. Library Journal.
Goldfarb, Michael. 2005. Ahmad’s war, Ahmad’s peace: Surviving under Saddam, dying in the new Iraq.
New York: Carroll and Graf.
Goldfarb draws a delicate
portrait of his friend and of the growing chaos and disillusionment of Iraqi society, where
Shawkat's idealistic but rudderless writings--he named his newspaper Without Direction--
were pushed aside by hardening attitudes. Shawkat emerges as a
tragic figure, a voice of individual conscience in
a country still ruled by rigid ideology and tribal loyalties.
DS79.76.G65
June 6, 2005. Publisher's Weekly. 252(23) 52.
Greenberg, Cheryl, Lynn. 1998. A circle of trust: Remembering SNCC. New
Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Inspired by the production of Eyes on The Prize, Jack Chatfield,
an activist in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, organized
a reunion of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Trinity
College in 1988. Some 150 activists and historians attended the
conference. This volume is a transcription of the comments made
by participants who sought to set the record straight.
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July 1998. Choice.
Hall, Simon. 2005. Peace and freedom: The civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. Philadelphia, PA: University
of Pennsylvania Press.
Civil rights leaders and their role in the antiwar movement is a subject that
has not been overly examined. Indeed, opposition to the war among African
American activists is usually not examined at all, except to explain Dr. Martin
Luther King's opposition in 1967-68. Hall (Univ. of Leeds) corrects this view
in a cogent study of the civil rights and antiwar movements. He states that black
leaders were torn between their loyalty to Lyndon Johnson and their suspicions that the war
was threatening the gains of the Civil Rights Movement. The author brilliantly delineates the
views of those who supported the war, such as Roy Wilkins and Whitney
Young, versus those who opposed it, e.g., Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael.
E185.615.H274
Oct.2005. Choice.
Harding, Vincent. 1990. Hope and history: Why we must share the story of the movement. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
Harding, ever the teacher, uses his recent experience in the production of Eyes on
the Prize (CH, Jan'88) to urge teachers, students, and discussion groups of all types
to view the series. His goal is to reinvigorate in youth and in society the call for
civil rights, justice, and love made by the Civil Rights leaders of the
1960s (including Harding, though he does not dwell on his part). If today's students
were to recapture that '60s sense of mission, perhaps they could use their energies in solving problems
such as drugs and crime. The Civil Rights Movement can provide the models they
need and the nonviolent methodology.
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Jan. 1991. Choice.
Harvey, Paul. 2005. Freedom’s coming: Religious culture and the shaping of the South from
the Civil War through the civil rights era. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South From the
Civil War through the Civil Rights Era, analyzes the religious culture of the American
South by examining the cross sections of race, politics, and gender.
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Jones-Branch, Cherisse. April 2006. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies.
37(1) 70.
Ponzer, Neal J. 2005. How should the United States withdraw from Iraq? San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press.
Books in the At Issue series offer opinions and perspectives from different sides
of a controversial issue. This entry presents speeches and articles by dignitaries such
as George W. Bush, John Kerry, and Paul Bremer as well as journalists and representatives
of various think tanks. The ten selections fairly reflect different points of view
and are argued with varying degrees of intensity and persuasiveness.
DS79.76.H69 2005
Phelan, Carolyn. February 2005. Booklist. 101 953.
Hunt, Swannee. 2004. This was not our war : Bosnian women reclaiming the peace. Durham: London.
Drawing on seven years of interviews, diplomatic and humanitarian
work in the region and personal visits to Bosnia throughout the 1990s,
Hunt--a former U.S. ambassador to Austria and founder of Women
Waging Peace--presents the testimony of 26 women who survived the region's horrific
upheavals. Hunt juxtaposes private moments with public meetings and differences of
opinion with common convictions. Women speak wrenchingly and courageously about the fight
to save their homes and protect their children; the decision to stay or
flee; the attempt to preserve their own bodies and souls; and
the ongoing challenge to rebuild their lives and society.
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December 6, 2004. Publisher's Weekly 251(49) 53-54.
Masson, Jeffrey M. 2005. Raising the peaceable kingdom: What animals can teach us
about the social origins of tolerance and friendship. New York: Ballentine Books.
Masson (When Elephants Weep) records his attempt to "raise together a kitten, a puppy, a bunny,
a chick, and a baby rat" in hopes that this
"might offer some lessons to us humans" on how to avoid bigotry and war.
QL775.M37
July 18, 2005. Publisher's Weekly. 252(28) 201.
Mehrota, Rajiv. 2005. Essential Dalai Lama: His important teachings. New York:Viking.
No non-Western spiritual leader of our time has commanded more respect
than the 14th Dalai Lama, a tireless advocate for the liberty of his native land of
Tibet as well as a first-rate ambassador for Tibetan Buddhism. He has also been
a prolific spiritual writer, having authored more than 50 books. This book is
an anthology of his writing, yet because his thought is all of one piece, it
does not seem in any way like a grab-bag of excerpts but a coherent vision of the world.
BQ7935.B774 E88
Christian, Graham. January 15, 2006. Librarary Journal. 131(1) 125.
Miller, William Ian. 2006. Eye for an eye. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Getting even, as the biblical precept implies, is the essence of justice, according to this
engaging essay. It's a simple idea, but Miller, a University of Michigan law professor
(The Anatomy of Disgust), finds a world of social complexity in humanity's efforts to get the accounting right.
K5103.M49
October 24, 2005. Publisher's Weekly. 252(42) 51.
Newman, Mark. 2004. The civil rights movement. Westport, CT:Praeger.
This publication of the British Association for American Studies is a concise
introduction to the struggle for equal rights. Synthesizing recent scholarship,
Newman (visiting professor, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) avoids the celebrity profile
approach to the movement's history and instead focuses on the importance of actions undertaken by local
communities and the overlooked work performed by women activists.
E185.61.L519 1998
April 2005. Choice.
Nhat Hanh Thich. 2004. Creating true peace: Ending violence in yourself, your family, your community, and the world.
New York: Free Press.
This latest volume addresses the questions
of world peace directly, through another--but still needed--explanation of the Buddhist Noble Truths and
of the meaning of true compassion. "The secret of creating peace," he says, "is that when
you listen to another person you have only one purpose: to offer him an opportunity to empty his heart."
BQ4570.P4 N45 2004
Christian, Graham. January 5, 2004. Library Journal. 129(1) 123.
Nhat Hanh Thich. 2004. Peace begins here: Palestinians and Israelis listening to each other.
Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press.
For several years, the Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee has led groups of
Palestinians and Israelis in an annual peace retreat in France; at the end
of each retreat, the participants come together to report on what happened as they practiced
Buddhist mindfulness and discuss how to continue the practice when they return to the Middle East.
BQ4570.P4 N457 2004
May 1, 2005. Reference and Research Books News.
Pannikar, Raimundo. 1995. Cultural disarmament: The way to peace. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press.
The concern that inspires this provocative treatise is to be found at its end: "What is there or what has there
been, in historical man, that has created war as an institution?"
Panikkar's attempt to explain how we reached such a point is one of the book's strengths. He understands
well the "myths" that have given shape to modern Western civilization and is appropriately careful to
interpret many of Western culture's characteristics-such as individualism,
fierce competitiveness, epistemological positivism, scientism, and technology/technocracy -as
the very forces that are leading us to the abyss of self-destruction.
BL65.P4 P3613 1995
Remick, Oscar E. 1997. Journal of Ecumenical Studies. 34(2).
Rouner, Leroy S. 1999. Religion, politics, and peace. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
In general, the collection represents various attempts to demonstrate, as Leroy Rouner
puts it in his "Introduction," "that religion has a valid voice in the political
process and sometimes even a healing role for the body politic."
BL65.P7 R437 1999
Palmer-Fernandez Gabriel. 2001. Journal of Religion. 81(2) 318-319.
Ellis, Catherine and Smith, Stephen D. 2005.
Say it plain: A century of great African-American speeches.
New York: New Press.
Presents actual transcripts and recordings of speeches by the leading
African American leaders of the twentieth century, with historical background and a radio
documentary prepared for national broadcast for Black History Month 2005.
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Description available from the book's http://gilfind.gsu.edu.
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