Tag: Peace

Free Download Peace-Weavers and Shield Maidens: Women in Early English Society By Kathleen Herbert
1997 | 66 Pages | ISBN: 1898281114 | PDF | 19 MB
An account of the earliest Englishwomen; the part they played in the making of England, what they did in peace and war, the impressions they left in Britain and on the continent, how they were recorded in the chronicles and how they came alive in heroic verse and riddles.

Free Download A Liberal Peace? : The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding By Susanna Campbell, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam
2011 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 1780320035 | PDF | 2 MB
Moving beyond the binary argument between those who buy into the aims of creating liberal democratic states grounded in free markets and rule of law, and those who critique and oppose them, this timely and much-needed critical volume takes a fresh look at the liberal peace debate. In doing so, it examines the validity of this critique in contemporary peacebuilding and statebuilding practice through a multitude of case studies – from Afghanistan to Somalia, Sri Lanka to Kosovo. Going further, it investigates the underlying theoretical assumptions of liberal peacebuilding and statebuilding, as well as providing new theoretical propositions for understanding current interventions. Written by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, alongside several new scholars making cutting edge contributions, this is an essential contribution to a rapidly growing interdisciplinary area of study.

Free Download Erik Sjöberg, "Internationalism and the New Turkey: American Peace Education in the Kemalist Republic, 1923-1933 "
English | ISBN: 3031009312 | 2022 | 274 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged. This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states emerging from the war. In the case of the Near East that meant coming to terms with the radically nationalist modernization project of Kemal Atatürk’s Turkish Republic. Using the case of Robert College, an American educational institution in Istanbul, which aimed to foster a future local elite of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious student body, the book sheds light on the negotiation between two conceptions of modernity, as represented by American internationalist ideals and the tenets of Kemalism the Westernizing, yet deeply ethnocentric national ideology of post-1923 Turkey. Based on recently declassified archival sources, this study addresses the educational intentions and strategies for adjustment of college faculty. It also offers a rare insight into the mindset of young students attempting to make sense of what internationalism and religious, ethnic and national identity meant in the Ottoman past and in the new republican Turkey. Focusing on Robert College and the forgotten case of its dean and social studies instructor, Dr. Edgar Jacob Fisher, it addresses the little-researched field of internationalism and peace education in interwar Turkey.

Free Download Michael Senior, "The Soldiers’ Peace: Demobilizing the British Army 1919"
English | ISBN: 1526703041 | 2018 | 224 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge – how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime size and how could millions of soldiers be returned to civilian life?In November 1918, the last month of the war, the British army numbered 3.75 million. One year later that number was reduced to 890,000. This was a remarkable feat of demobilization but, as Michael Senior shows, it was by no means a trouble-free process. He describes in vivid detail how demobilization took place, the acute difficulties that arose, and how they were dealt with.The obstacles that had to be overcome were legion, and urgent, for the task had to be completed rapidly to prevent social unrest. At the same time prisoners of war had to be repatriated, the wounded and maimed had to be cared for and permanent cemeteries had to be laid out for the battlefield dead. In addition, war materiel had to be disposed and the army had to be reorganized into a force suitable for the challenges of 1919.The task was immense, as were the risks, and Michael Senior’s study makes fascinating reading.

Free Download The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam by George Black
English | March 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 0593534107 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 38.36 MB
The moving story of how a small group of people-including two Vietnam veterans-forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors-agent orange and unexploded munitions-inflicted on the Vietnamese.

Free Download Edward W. Said, "The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After"
English | 2001 | pages: 420 | ISBN: 0375725741, 0375409300 | PDF | 227,5 mb
Soon after the Oslo accords were signed in September 1993 by Israel and Palestinian Liberation Organization, Edward Said predicted that they could not lead to real peace. In these essays, most written for Arab and European newspapers, Said uncovers the political mechanism that advertises reconciliation in the Middle East while keeping peace out of the picture.

Free Download Comfort and Peace for Every Day
by Carolyn Larsen
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0800742532 | 366 pages | True EPUB | 37.62 MB

Free Download Evelyn Kohl LaTorre, "Between Inca Walls: A Peace Corps Memoir"
English | ISBN: 1631527177 | 2020 | 328 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library―an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure.

Free Download Michael Mandelbaum, "The Ideas That Conquered The World: Peace, Democracy, And Free Markets In The Twenty-first Century"
English | 2004 | pages: 528 | ISBN: 1586482068 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, three ideas dominate the world: peace as the preferred basis for relations between and among different countries, democracy as the optimal way to organize political life, and free markets as the indispensable vehicle for the creation of wealth. While not practiced everywhere, these ideas have-for the first time in history-no serious rivals. And although the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were terrible and traumatic, they did not "change everything," as so many commentators have asserted. Instead, these events served to illuminate even more brightly the world that emerged from the end of the Cold War.

Free Download Existential Risks in Peace and Conflict Studies
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031243145 | 310 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.3 MB
This book explores the topic of peace and the long-term survival of the human species. Drawing on Existential Risk Studies (ERS), the book lays out a theoretical framework for drawing new perspectives and approaches for looking toward the future and addressing existential risks related to the complexity and dynamics of conflict. Looking at five research lines in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS); (1) Great Powers Conflict, (2) Peace, Pandemic, and Conflict, (3) Climate, Peace, and Conflict, (4) Emerging Technologies, Peace, and Conflict and (5) Totalitarianism, the chapters discuss how these lines are defined and discussed, how they are understood in ERS, and what approaches would be beneficial to adapt and integrate into PCS. By drawing on ERS and grounding the discussion in lines of research that will be important to the field of PCS, this book suggests that long-term perspectives are needed in the field, especially in regard to existential risk and their implications of conflict.