Tag: Peace

Free Download Women, Religion, and Peace-Building: Gusii and Maasai Women of Faith in Kenya
by Jaqueline Ogega
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030897265 | 125 Pages | True PDF | 3.43 MB

Free Download The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League By Hobbs, Jeff; Peace, Robert
2014 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 147673190X | EPUB | 5 MB
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets — and of one’s own nature — when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace’s relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.

Free Download Reverend Andrew White, "The Vicar of Baghdad: Fighting for peace in the Middle East"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1854248766, 0825462843 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.6 mb
"I live with a price on my head …The kind of people that I spend my time engaging with are not usually very nice. On the whole nice people do not cause wars ."

Free Download Geoffrey Koziol, "The Peace of God "
English | ISBN: 194240137X | 2018 | 152 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Peace of God was one of the most important, and one of the most contested, movements of the entire Middle Ages. It has been seen as either radically innovative or fundamentally traditional; as strongly millenarian or not millenarian at all; as the first great popular movement in European history or as an instrument by which elites consolidated their power. In this book, Geoffrey Koziol argues that all such differing viewpoints have some basis in fact, partly because specific instantiations of the Peace of God varied greatly, but also because from its very beginning the movement brought to the fore the contradictions inherent in earlier ideas and rituals of peace and peace-making.

Free Download Sanem Şahin, "Reporting Conflict and Peace in Cyprus: Journalism Matters"
English | ISBN: 3030950093 | 2022 | 226 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book studies journalism in Cyprus to understand how journalists negotiate their roles and responsibilities in conflict-affected societies. In Cyprus, journalism has navigated through the pressures and challenges of intercommunal and political tensions. The book outlines a historical context of the conflict, also known as the Cyprus problem and discusses the news media’s involvement in it. However, the primary concern is journalists’ perceptions of their professional roles and external forces affecting their work. It examines the impact of political, economic and organisational influences, media ownership and technological developments on their work through interviews conducted with journalists. It studies professional and ethical challenges journalists experience, especially when reporting intercommunal relations. Finally, it explores the impact of digital media on journalism and the public debate on the Cyprus problem.

Free Download Julia Palmiano Federer, "NGOs Mediating Peace: Promoting Inclusion in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiations "
English | ISBN: 3031421736 | 2024 | 239 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the role of nongovernmental mediators in promoting "inclusive peace" to negotiating parties in Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) negotiations from 2011-2015. The influx of NGO mediators directly engaging with the negotiating parties and promoting the inclusivity norm coupled with the salience of discourse around "all-inclusiveness" at the end of the NCA process forms a puzzle around the agency that NGO mediators wield in influencing political outcomes, despite their lack of political and material leverage.The author argues that NGO mediators can effectively promote norms, using mediation processes as a site of norm diffusion. Bespoke international conflict resolution NGOs have become key mediation actors, within the last three decades through creating the niche world of "private diplomacy" and acting as "norm entrepreneurs" at the same time. As informal third parties, these NGO mediators directly engage with politically sensitive actors or convene unofficial peace talks. As NGOs, they are part of an epistemic community of mediation practice, professionalizing the field and producing knowledge on what peace mediation is and what it ought to be. This dual identity as both NGOs and mediators nicely sets them up with a unique agency to promote and diffuse norms. These norms often reflect the liberal peacebuilding paradigm promoted from the Global North, such as inclusion, gender equality and transitional justice, with the view that these norms are not ends in themselves but as necessary ingredients for effective mediation.The book further questions whether NGOs should promote norms in the first place. The outcome of the NCA process presents a critical and cautionary tale of promoting a presumed universal norm into a given locale and expecting a certain outcome without understanding how an external norm interacts with existing normative frameworks. The book illustrates that while NGO mediators do possess the "normative agency" to effectively promote norms to negotiating parties, my empirical research analyses how their promotion of the "inclusivity" norm to the negotiating parties in Myanmar’s NCA paradoxically resulted in exclusionary outcomes: only half of the armed groups in the ethnic armed groups’ negotiating bloc signed, and civil society was effectively crowded out from meaningful participation despite lofty rhetoric.

Free Download Managing Crises, Making Peace: Towards a Strategic EU Vision for Security and Defense By Maria Raquel Freire, Maria Grazia Galantino
2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1137442247 | PDF | 1 MB
The EU has increased its commitment in response to crises, however, in the face of new threats and emerging crises, its capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic. Resurging divergences in major member states’ positions, requiring dual adaptation of the EU level of governance with the national projection of interests, are posing a serious challenge to the objective of a more integrated European defense and security strategy. This collection offers valuable insights for understanding how a distinctive EU vision on peace missions has emerged and whether it is there to last. Bringing an innovative perspective to European Union engagement in peace operations, this volume combines theoretical reflection with the analysis of empirical case studies that illustrate not only the EU’s action in the framework of its Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), but also how it engages with other actors in the field including international organisations, non-governmental organisations and local citizens.

Free Download Roberto Domínguez, "Latin American Thinkers of Peace "
English | ISBN: 3031361067 | 2023 | 198 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book analyzes seven Latin American thinkers who have contributed to building bridges for reconciliation and peace: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Alfonso García Robles, Óscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Juan Manuel Santos, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Working within an eclectic conceptual approach to systematize the circulation of ideas embraced by each one of the thinkers, the various contributions delve into the current literature of leadership and intellectuals in Politics and Global International Relations (GIR). Overall, the central premises of the analysis are based on three fundamentals of mainstream constructivism: a) change across time and space in the lifetime of each thinker under analysis in this book; b) socialization through changing norms, rules, and language; and c) processes of interaction in which actors make choices in selecting networks and strategies). Coming from different walks of life, the seven thinkers examined in this book haveaccessed the global public square and discussed ideas to reduce conflicts at different scales. In their respective historical times, they circulated their views and ideas beyond the confines of Latin America to influence global political thought and produce change in favor of peace.

Free Download Joanne Fairchild Miller, "Creating a Haven of Peace: When You’re Feeling Down, Finances Are Flat, and Tempers are Rising"
English | ISBN: 1630477710 | 2016 | 170 pages | EPUB | 1411 KB
"SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY! SANCTUARY!" yells Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) as he enters the cathedral to escape his tormentors. Sanctuary: A place of asylum and immunity. A place of peace and unconditional love. A place to escape from the everyday stressors of life. An attainable retreat accomplished through intentional living.

Free Download Suzanne Woods Fisher, "Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 080073338X | EPUB | pages: 220 | 4.8 mb
Of all the gifts that Jesus left us, his peace is most elusive. We long for it in our homes, in our relationships, in our life situations. One place we can look and see "living peace" is in the lives of the Amish. But you don’t have to become Amish to bring these simple, practical ways of living into your own life-and make personal peace a reality.