Approaches to peace : a reader in peace studies / edited by David P. Barash.

Title page dated: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Approaches to Approaches to Peace -- Ch. 1. Approaches to War -- Why War? -- On Aggression -- Warfare Is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity -- War and Other Essays -- The Guns of August -- Victims of Groupthink -- The Causes of War -- A Structural Theory of Imperialism -- National Images and International Systems -- Glamorized Nationalism: Some Examples in Poetry -- Redefining Security: The New Global Schisms -- Ch. 2. Building "Negative Peace" -- The Moral Equivalent of War -- Getting to YES -- Disarmament Demands GRIT -- The Conduct of Just and Limited War -- The Game of Disarmament -- The Gift of Time -- Finding the Future: the Role of Economic Conversion in Shaping the Twenty-First Century -- International Law -- The Evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping -- Perpetual Peace -- Ch. 3. Building "Positive Peace" -- The Land Ethic -- The Pedagogy of the Oppressed -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail -- Human Rights -- An Agenda for Change -- Ch. 4. Nonviolence -- Civil Disobedience -- Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby -- Conscientious Objector -- Neither Victims nor Executioners -- Ahimsa, or the Way of Nonviolence -- Civilian Resistance as a National Defense -- Ch. 5. Religious Inspiration -- The Bhagavad Gita: Hindu -- Being Peace: Buddhist -- Tao De Ching: Taoist -- The Old Testament: Jewish -- The New Testament: Christian -- Holy Disobedience -- A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann -- A Christian's View of the Arms Race -- Ch. 6. Peace Movements, Transformation, and the Future -- Peace Movements in History -- Building Utopias in History -- On Humane Governance -- Sexism and the War System -- The Politics of Responsibility -- A Few Poetic Visions.

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