Author: Frans B. M. de Waal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: primates, among, peacemaking
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1990-09-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 067465921X
ISBN-13: 9780674659216

Does biology condemn the human species to violence and war? Previous studies of animal behavior incline us to answer yes, but the message of this book is considerably more optimistic. Without denying our heritage of aggressive behavior, Frans de Waal describes powerful checks and balances in the makeup of our closest animal relatives, and in so doing he shows that to humans making peace is as natural as making war. In this meticulously researched and absorbing account, we learn in detail how different types of simians cope with aggression, and how they make peace after fights. Chimpanzees

Author: Harold George Nicolson
Publisher: Simon Publications
Keywords: peacemaking
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2001-11
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 193154154X
ISBN-13: 9781931541541

Recollections of a British diplomat, who was a member of the Peace delegation of Great Britain at Paris. He wrote: "Given the atmosphere at the time, given the passions aroused in all democracies by four years of war, it would have been impossible even for supermen to devise a peace of moderation and righteousness."

Author: Glen H. Stassen
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Keywords: war, abolishing, practices, peacemaking
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0829816569
ISBN-13: 9780829816563

Enter a new perspective--this profound resource maps a course for individuals, grassroots groups, voluntary associations, and religious organizations to show people how to fan the flames of peace. It challenges pacifists to be peacemakers and war theorists to spell out the resorts that should be tried before the last.

Author: Rick Love
Publisher: William Carey Library Pub
Keywords: guide, study, peacemaking
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0878084452
ISBN-13: 9780878084456

Authors:Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: liberalization, peacemaking, israel, new
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-01-09
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0813338735
ISBN-13: 9780813338736

Insightful commentary from thirteen Middle Eastern scholars who argue that economic liberalization has helped to promote the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization argues that the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace process will be expedited by increased economic liberalization. Israel has undergone dramatic economic change in the 1990s, shifting from a strongly protectionist, state-centered economy to a more international, "neoliberal" one. The book maintains that these fundamental changes have in turn transformed Israeli society as a whole, resulti

Author: Harriet Martin
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: story, peacemaking, untold, war, peace, pawns, kings
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826490573
ISBN-13: 9780826490575

The secret world of international peace deals is exposed in "Kings of Peace", a ground-breaking new book that goes behind the scenes of televised handshakes to reveal what it really takes to broker peace in today’s conflicts. Drawing on unparalleled access to some of the world’s leading conflict mediators, "Kings of Peace" provides fascinating insights into the lengthy, fragile and often stormy process of transforming war into peace. Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian Foreign Minister, brokered a deal in Afghanistan, before going on to help - albeit reluctantly - the Americans appoin

Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: saga, iceland, society, law, peacemaking, feud, bloodtaking
Number of Pages: 415
Published: 1997-02-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226526801
ISBN-13: 9780226526805

Dubbed by the New York Times as "one of the most sought-after legal academics in the county," William Ian Miller presents the arcane worlds of the Old Norse studies in a way sure to attract the interest of a wide range of readers. Bloodtaking and Peacemaking delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller’s unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland’s sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violen