Resource Guide
Peace Almanac – https://worldbeyondwar.org/calendar/
Mapping Military Madness Update 2015 – https://worldbeyondwar.org/mapping-military-madness-2015-update/
Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes- https://www.warresisters.org/resources/pie-chart-flyers-where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes
Peace Science Digest – www.communication.warpreventioninitiative.org
Global Peace Index – http://www.visionofhumanity.org/
Books
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2000).
American Friends Service Committee, Shared Security: Reimagining U.S. Foreign Policy.
(https://afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/shared-security_web.pdf)
Amster, Randall, Peace Ecology (2014).
Bacevich, Andrew, The new American militarism: how Americans are seduced by war (2005).
Bacevich, Andrew, Washington rules: America’s path to permanent war (2010).
Benjamin, Medea, & Evans, Jodie, Stop the next war now: effective responses to violence and terrorism (2005).
Boulding, Elise, and Randall Forsberg, Abolishing War: Cultures and Institutions (1998).
Boulding, Elise, Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History (2000).
Boyle, Francis Anthony, Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law (1987).
Buchheit, Paul, American Wars: Illusions and Realities (2008).
Burrowes, Robert J. The Strategy of Nonviolent Defense: A Gandhian Approach (1996).
Cady, Duane L., From Warism to Pacifism: A Moral Continuum (2010).
Chappell, Paul, The Art of Waging Peace (2013).
Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (2011).
Cortright, David, Peace. A History of Movements and ideas (2008).
Delgado, Sharon, Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-led Resistance to Corporate Globalization (2007).
Dower, John W., Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq (2010).
Faure-Brac, Russell, Transition to Peace: A Defense Engineer’s Search for an Alternative to War (2012).
Fry, Douglas, War, peace, and human nature: the convergence of evolutionary and cultural views (2013).
Galtung, Johan. Abolishing War. Criminalizing War, Removing War Causes, Removing War as Institution (accessed 2016).
Galtung, Johan. A Theory Of Peace. Building Direct-Structural-Cultural Peace (accessed 2016).
Goldstein, Joshua S., Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide (2011).
Grossman, Dave, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1996).
Hand, Judith L., Shift: The Beginning of War, the Ending of War (2014).
Harris, Ian, and Mary Lee Morrison, Peace Education, 3rd ed., (2012).
Hartsough, David, Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist (2014).
Hastings, Tom, Ecology of War and Peace: Counting Costs of Conflict (2000).
Hastings, Tom, A New Era of Nonviolence. The Power of Civil Society over War (2014).
Hawken, Paul, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (2007).
Irwin, Robert A., Building a Peace System (1989; free online via HathiTrust).
Kaldor, Mary, Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2003).
Kelly, Kathy, Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison (2005).
Lederach, John Paul, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (2005).
Mahoney, Liam, and Luis Enrique Eguren, Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights (1997).
Marr, Andrew, Tools for Peace: The Spiritual Craft of St. Benedict and Rene Girard (2007).
Mische, Patricia M., and Melissa Merkling, eds., Toward a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions (2001).
Myers, Winslow, Living Beyond War. A Citizen’s Guide (2009).
Nagler, Michael, The Search for a Nonviolent Future (2004).
Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack, Authentic Hope: It’s the End of the World As We Know It But Soft Landings Are Possible (2012).
O’Dea, James, Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st-Century Peace Ambassador (2012).
Ricigliano, Rob, Making Peace Last: A Toolbox for Sustainable Peacebuilding (2012).
Schwartzberg, Joseph E., Transforming the United Nations System (2013).
Sharp, Gene, Waging Nonviolent Struggle (2005),
Sharp, Gene, The Politics of nonviolent Action (1973)
Sharp, Gene, Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System (1990) available at http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Civilian-Based-Defense-English.pdf
Shierd, Kent, From War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years (2011).
Solomon, Norman. War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. (2010)
Somlai, Anton, Peace Vigil: Living Without Hesitation (2009).
Swanson, David, War No More: The Case for Abolition (2013).
Swanson, David, When the World Outlawed War (2011).
Swanson, David, War is a Lie (2nd Ed., 2016).
Thompson, J. Milburn, Justice & Peace: A Christian Primer (2003).
Williams, Jody, Goose, Stephen., & Wareham, Mary. Banning landmines: disarmament, citizen diplomacy, and human security (2008).
Movies
A Bold Peace
A Force More Powerful
Bringing Down a Dictator
Orange Revolution
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Paying the Price of Peace
A Sampling of other Peace Organizations on the World Wide Web
Albert Einstein Institution, www.aeinstein.org
American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org
Campaign to Close All Military Bases, www.tni.org/primer/foreign-military-bases-and-global-campaign-close-them
Campaign Nonviolence, www.paceebene.org/programs/campaign-nonviolence
Carter Center, www.cartercenter.org/peace/index.html
Christian Peacemaker Teams, www.cpt.org
Citizens for Global Solutions, www.globalsolutions.org
Conflict Resolution Center International, www.conflictres.org
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, www.carnegieendowment.org
Coalition For Peace Action, www.peacecoalition.org/campaigns/peace-economy.html
Coalition for the International Criminal Court, www.iccnow.org
CodePink, www.codepink.org
Fellowship Of Reconciliation, www.forusa.org
Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org
Hague Appeal For Peace, www.haguepeace.org
Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org
Institute for Inclusive Security, www.inclusivesecurity.org
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, www.imtd.org
International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, www.nonviolent-conflict.org
International Civil Society Action Network, http://www.icanpeacework.org
International Fellowship of Reconciliation, www.ifor.org
International Peace Research Association, www.iprapeace.org
International Peace Bureau, www.ipb.org
International Network for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, www.causes.com/nobases
Jewish Peace Fellowship, www.jewishpeacefellowship.org
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, www.mcli.org
Metta Center for Nonviolence, www.mettacenter.org
Muslim Peacemaker Teams Iraq, www.mpt-iraq.org
National Peace Foundation, www.nationalpeace.org
Nobel Women’s Initiative, www.nobelwomensinitiative.com
Nonviolence International, www.nonviolenceinternational.net
Nonviolent Peaceforce, www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
Nukewatch, www.nukewatch.com
Oxfam International, www.oxfam.org
Pace e Bene, www.paceebene.org
Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR), www.patrir.ro/en
Pax Christi, www.paxchristiusa.org
Peace Action, www.peace-action.org
Peace Brigades International, www.peacebrigades.org
Peace And Justice Studies Association, www.peacejusticestudies.org
Peace Direct, www.peacedirect.org
Peace People, www.peacepeople.com
PeaceVoice, www.peacevoice.info
The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World, www.thepeoplesnonviolencecharter.wordpress.com
Ploughshares Fund, www.ploughshares.org
Rotarian Action Group for Peace, www.rotarianactiongroupforpeace.org
Transcend International, www.transcend.org
United for Peace and Justice, www.unitedforpeace.org
United Nations Association of the United States (UNA/USA), www.unausa.org
Veterans for Peace, www.veteransforpeace.org
Waging Nonviolence, www.wagingnonviolence.org
Women’s Action for New Directions, www.wand.org
War Prevention Initiative, www.warpreventioninitiative.org
War Resisters League, www.warresisters.org
War Resisters International, www.wri-irg.org
Women’s International League for Peace and freedom, www.wilpfinternational.org
World Federalist Movement, www.igp.org
World Parliament, www.worldparliament-gov.org/home
… and the many, many wonderful organizations we cannot list here. You are part of the movement to end all war. We are one!
Please Note this is a work in progress and will always be a living document. We invite any and all to comment, critique and help to improve it.
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