List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disciplines in dispute
history, peace studies, and the pursuit of peace / Christian Philip Peterson, Michael Loadenthal, andWilliam M. Knoblauch
PART I. Paradigms of peace: 1. Philosophies of peace, 1750 / 1865 / Casey Rentmeester; 2. Peace in an age of modernity, 1865 / 1914 / Charles F. Howlett and Christian Philip Peterson; 3. Liberal internationalism and the search for international peace / Waqar Zaidi; 4. Structural conflict, systemic violence, and peace: a guided reading / Michael Loadenthal
PART II: Icons of peace: 5. Three apostles of non-violence: An introduction to the religious thinking of Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan / Anna Hamling; 6. The evolution of Tolstoyan pacifism in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, 1900 / 1937 / Irina Gordeeva; 7. One man's peace: influences on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s non-violent philosophy / Kevin E. Grimm; 8. "Sane ideas which may yet save the world from further conflict": Bertrand Russell's and Julian Huxley's lecture tours in early Cold War Australia / Jo Grant; 9. Black Power and the anti-Vietnam War movement / Simon Hall; 10. Ibrahim Rugova and his peaceful resistance for independence of Kosovo / Jusuf Salih; 11. Nelson Mandela and the decolonial paradigm of peace / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


PART III: Religious and cultural dimensions of peace: 12. Losing my religion: the effects of World War I on pacifism in the Stone-Campbell Movement / Joshua W. Jeffery; 13. From Father Berrigan to Black Lives Matter: literary representations of peace activism since 1945 / Carolyn Dekker; 14. Film depictions of children as modern anti-war crusaders / Benita Blessing; 15. Apocalyptic dissenters: Seventh-day Adventists and peace activism in the nineteenth century / Abel Rios; 16. Improvisatory peace activism? Graffiti during and after Egypt's most recent revolution / Asif Majid
PART IV: Antinuclear peace activism: 17. The nuclear freeze: transnational pursuit of positive peace / Dario Fazzi; 18. Pacific concerns: Nuclear weapons and the peace movement in Australia, 1960 / 1967 / Kyle Harvey; 19. Andrei Sakharov on nuclear war and nuclear peace / Jay Bergman; 20. Scientists as peace activists, 1975 / 1991 / Paul Rubinson


PART V: Non-violence and the nation state: 21. Non-violence in Ireland's independence / Patrick Van Inwegen; 22. Colombia: a long journey to peace / Saul M. Rodriguez; 23. The anti-war movement in Lebanon, 1975 / 1990 / Magnus Dølerud; 24. Israel and the Israeli / Palestinian conflict / Galia Golan; 25. Peace process without the people: sidelining popular struggle in Palestine / Michael J. Carpenter; 26. A farewell to arms? Evolving peace in the Taiwan Strait / Tony Tai-Ting Liu; 27. Understanding violent conflict in Africa: trends, causes, and prospects / Leila Demarest and Arnim Langer


PART VI: Modern challenges: transnational and international peace efforts: 28. The International Peace Campaign, China, and transnational activism at the outset of World War II / Ke Ren; 29. The anti-Vietnam War movement: International activism and the search for world peace / Chris Dixon and Jon Piccini; 30. Belgian peace demonstrations after the invasion of Iraq: a sociological perspective / Ione Corbeel and Pauline Ketelaars; 31. An activist in exile: Janet Mondlane and the Mozambican liberation movement / Joanna Tague; 32. Feminist perspectives in the implementation of UN Resolution 1325 / Judith Oleson; 33. Unincluded: How women are passed over in peace processes and how data fails to capture their efforts / Natalie W. Romeri-Lewis, Sarah F. Brown, and Benjamin T. White; 34. What is peace, how have our concepts of peace evolved, and what is a holistic vision of peace for the twenty-first century? / Linda Groff
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