#19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide

#19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide (Jan. 2011)

Sharing Fabulous Videos

As we begin the year 2011, A Future Without War has been thinking about powerful POSITIVE uses of media. There are libraries full of books and films documenting our problems. But to change our cultures and the course of history, we will have to reach hearts with positive messages as well. Four of our favorite YouTube videos are New Year presents to our newsletter readers. We hope they provide moments of amusement and even sheer joy. First, though, we give thanks for YouTube and its creators. This extremely powerful medium will facilitate the global sharing of all kinds of good works and good news. Please accept our gratitude.

Stand By Me

The first video would be most naturally grouped into the AFWW Cornerstone called "Foster Connectedness." An essay entitled "Foster Connectedness" explains why organizations and individuals with a focus on creating a sense of oneness between people and between us all and the planet that sustains us are one of many necessary keys to ending war. The video is called Stand By Me. It was produced by the group Playing For Change. Playing for Change is part of the Peace Through Music movement. Watch Stand by Me

Women and Girls, of the World - Arise!

The second video, "The Girl Effect," is an inspirational depiction of the key roles of women, and in this case young women, in changing history. The emphasis is on poverty ... but we can't have a future without war if our future is filled with poverty. You may wish to check out one of AFWW's essays on why we will never abolish war unless we do empower women and girls as equal partners with men. The essay is entitled "Locked in the Embrace of Male Biology." The video, wonderfully creative in design, was produced by girleffect.org and the Nike Foundaton.
View "The Girl Effect"

Kings Firecrackers of Ohio

The third video beautifully highlights the extraordinarily well-developed human trait of cooperation. In a blog entitled "Origins of War and Human Destiny," AFWW has explained why we embrace the "Humans the Cooperators" model of human evolution rather than the "Man the Warrior" model. The essay has a link to this demonstration of astounding cooperation. It's called "Jump Rope Dance" and was performed at the U.S. Naval Academy by the "Kings Firecrackers" and produced by Bong. For full effect be sure you watch all the way to the end. There is not a species on the entire planet that can outdo us in cooperation!!!! Let's put that extraordinary gift to work to bring about the end of arguably our worst trait: war. Watch Jump Rope Dance.

Imagine

Finally, if you have never seen John Lennon sing IMAGINE, here is your chance. You can view his vision of how to present the music. John Lennon was in fact a dreamer. We need our dreamers. They can touch our hearts, inspire our spirits, expand our vistas. They can reach out to and uplift the best in us. His visionary song looks into a future with no poverty, nothing to kill or die for, a place of sharing where we live as one. Watch John Lennon sing "Imagine"
ENJOY These Awesome Videos!!!!

Peace Movements Worldwide - Three Volumes

Michael N. Nagler, Marc Pilisuk, and their research helper Gianina Pellegrini announce publication of a three volume work, Peace Movements Worldwide. The scope and quantity of these essays leaves no doubt that something big most definitely is afoot!  Yearning for a profound change from the way the human world has been running is on the rise globally and has, in the view of A Future Without War, reached critical mass. These writers and legions more testify to that truth. The publisher describes the work saying, "From Veterans for Peace to the Nonviolent Peace Force, from UN initiatives to local actions by women in Colombia and Kenya, and from citizen diplomats to creative conflict resolvers to survivors of genocide, this set tells the stories of ideas, people, and worldwide organizations striving to help humanity realize its never-ending yearning for peace." A Future Without Warhas not yet reviewed the series. We hope to find that it includes chapters that explore the human potential for peace from cutting-edge biological and anthropological perspectives.  Here is the TOC of all three volumes:

Peace Movements Worldwide:
History, Psychology, and Practices
Marc Pilisuk & Michael N. Nagler (Editors)

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1: History and Vitality of Peace Movements

Acknowledgments
Set Introduction
Introduction to Volume 1

Part I THE MEANING OF PEACE

Chapter 1             Eternal Peace
Michael N. Nagler
Chapter 2             A Philosophy of Peace
Barry L. Gan
Chapter 3             Peace and Development Today: An Overview
Johan Galtung

Part II THE PEACE INHERITANCE: SCIENCE AND THE PROMISE OF HUMAN NATURE

Chapter 4             The Evolution of Peace
Michael N. Nagler & Angel Ryono
Chapter 5             Psychology and Peace
Marc Pilisuk & Mitch Hall

Part III A SOCIETAL PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 6          Cultural Understanding in Peacekeeping, Peacemaking, and Peace Building
Paul R. Kimmel
Chapter 7          Rethinking "Identity" for a Global Age: Emerging Responsibilities and Duties
Rebecca Joy Norlander & Anthony J. Marsella
Chapter 8        Cultures of Peace or Culture of Peace?
David Adams

Part IV RELIGIOUS DIMENSIONS OF PEACE

Chapter 9         The Spirit of Change: Spiritual and Religious Resources for Peace and Justice Movements
Donald Rothberg
Chapter 10       When Prayer and Revolution Became People Power
Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Chapter 11       Catholic Social Teaching: Integrating the Virtue of Nonviolent Peacemaking
Eli Sasaran McCarthy
Chapter 12       Alternatives to War and Violence: An Islamic Perspective
Mohammed Abu-Nimer &Jamal A. Badawi

Part V GENDER IN WAR AND PEACE

Chapter 13       Women: Battleground for War, Resource for Peace
Gianina Pellegrini
Chapter 14 Nothing Short of a Revolution: Reflections on the Global Women's Movement
Kavita Nandini Ramdas
Chapter 15 A Feminist Ethical Perspective on Weapons of Mass Destruction
Carol Cohn and Sara Ruddick

Part VI THE CHALLENGE BEFORE US

Chapter 16 War, Peace, and Climate Change: A Billion Lives in the Balance
Jan Egeland
Chapter 17 The Moment for Turning: Living as if Peace and Sustainability Really Mattered
David C. Korten
Chapter 18       Against So Much Money and Power, Can the Peace Movement Succeed?
Marc Pilisuk & Ellen Gaddy
A Final Word     Marc Pilisuk & Michael N. Nagler
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors

VOLUME 2: Players and Practices in Resistance to War

Acknowledgments
Set Introduction
Introduction to Volume 2

Part I PREVENTION

Chapter 1 Shedding the Tools of Destruction: The Disarmament Effort
Marc Pilisuk
Chapter 2        Nuclear Disarmament: The Path Forward, Obstacles, and Opportunities
Alice Slater
Chapter 3        Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep for 64 Years
Daniel Ellsberg
Chapter 4        Citizen Diplomacy and the Ottawa Process in Banning Landmines: A Lasting Model?
Jody Williams & Stephen D. Goose
Chapter 5        Bringing the Corporate Role in Global Violence to Daylight
Gianina Pellegrini
Chapter 6 Socially Responsible Investing, Peace, and Social Justice
Tessie Petion & Steven D.Lydenberg

Part II RESISTING VIOLENCE

Chapter 7 A Hand for Peace in a Zone of War
Kathy Kelly
Chapter 8 Human Security: Providing Protection without Sticks and Carrots
Christine Schweitzer
Chapter 9 Psyched Up to Save Psychology: A Tale of Activists' Efforts to Resist Complicity in U.S.Human Rights Violations Post 9-11
Jill Latonick-Flores & Daniel J. Adamski
Chapter 10 Shut it Down! A brief History of Efforts to Close La Escuela de Asesinos (The School of Assassins)
Jill Latonick-Flores with Father Roy Bourgeois
Chapter 11 Structured Cruelty: Learning to be a Lean, Mean Killing Machine
Martin Smith
Chapter 12 If You Start Looking at Them as Humans, Then How Are You Gonna Kill Them?
Inigo Gilmore & Teresa Smith
Chapter 13 Where is the Rage?
Justin C. Cliburn
Chapter 14 Soldiers in Revolt
Howard Zinn


Part III HEALING THE WOUNDS

Chapter 15       Out of the Inner Wilderness: Torture and Healing
Diane Lefer & HectorAristizbal
Chapter 16 From Grief to Gratitude: The Tariq Khamisa Foundation
Azim N. Khamisa
Chapter 17 Steps Toward Reconciliation: Understanding and Healing in Post-Genocide Rwanda and  Beyond
Ervin Staub & Angel Ryono
Chapter 18 Interactive Problem Solving: Informal Mediation by the Scholar-Practitioner
Herbert C. Kelman
Chapter 19 From Young Soldiers to Young Peace Builders: Building Peace in Sierra Leone
MichaelWessells
Chapter 20 Modern Day Slavery
Melissa Anderson-Hinn
Chapter 21 Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress
Rachel M. MacNair

Part IV PEACE MOVEMENTS WORLDWIDE

Chapter 22 The West German Peace Movement
Andreas Buro
Chapter 23 Peace in Transition: The Peace Movement in South Korea
Jujin Chung
Chapter 24 Life in Peace: The Emergence of the Indian Peace Movement
Ramu Manivannan
Chapter 25 Peace Psychology in Asia
Cristina Jayme Montiel
Chapter 26       Active Nonviolence: A Creative Power for Peacemaking and Healing
Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Chapter 27 Nonviolent Skills versus Repressive Conditions:The Iranian Women's Movement and Codepink: Women for Peace
Cynthia Boaz
Chapter 28       Peace Movements and the Middle East: The 1991 Gulf  War and Aftermath
Stephen Zunes

A Final Word      Marc Pilisuk & Michael N. Nagler
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors

VOLUME 3: Peace Efforts That Work and Why

Acknowledgments
Set Introduction
Introduction to Volume 3

Part I PEACE FROM ABOVE

Chapter 1      New Understandings of Citizenship: Path to a Peaceful Future? Elise Boulding
Chapter 2      Peace Building: 12 Dynamics
Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Chapter 3      Our Water Commons: Toward a New Freshwater Narrative
Maude Barlow
Chapter 4      Beyond Leviathan? The Historical Relationship Between Peace Plans, International Lawand the Early Anglo-American Peace Movement
Cris Toffol
Chapter 5      The Good News: The ICC and the R2P Principle
Ronald J. Glossop
Chapter 6      Toward a Necessary Utopianism: Democratic Global Governance
Richard Falk

Part II PEACE FROM BELOW

Chapter 7       I am the Leader, You are the Leader: Nonviolent Resistance in The Peace Community of San Jose de Apartade, Colombia
Elizabeth Lozano
Chapter 8        Peace Building Education: Responding to Contexts
Candice C. Carter
Chapter 9        Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Moveents for Peace and Social Justice
Peter Phillips & Mickey S. Huff
Chapter 10      Renaissance 2.0: The Web's Potential for the Peaceful  Transformation of Modern Society
Deva Temple
Chapter 11       Building the Peace by Examples of Civil Courage during the War
Svetlana Broz
Chapter 12       Peace Can Be Taught
Colman McCarthy
Chapter 13       When Violence "Works" for 30 Years: The Late Return of Satyagraha to the Northern Irish Peace Process
  Marcel M. Baumann
Chapter 14       Hands of Peace: From Epiphany to Reality
Laura Bernstein
Chapter 15       The Movement Toward Peace in Crisis - and Opportunity
Michael N. Nagler
Chapter 16       To Remake the World
Paul Hawken
Chapter 17       Search for Common Ground
John Marks & Susan Collin Marks
Chapter 18       Setting the Stage for Peace: Participatory Theater for Conflict Transformation in the Democratic Republic of the  Congo
Lena Slachmuijlder
Chapter 19       The Pledge of Resistance: Lessons From a Movement of Solidarity and Nonviolent Direct Action
Ken Butigan
Chapter 20       Money Cannot Be Eaten: Nonviolent Resistance in Struggles over Land and Economic Survival
Rev. Jos M. Tirado
Chapter 21      Searching for Development with Human Dignity in Guatemala
Jennifer Achord Rountree

Part III PEACE FROM WITHIN

Chapter 22 On Meditation
Michael N. Nagler
Chapter 23 Despair Work
Joanna Macy
Chapter 24 Experimenting with Nonviolence From West Texas to South Korea
Richard L. Deats
Chapter 25 Trained to Hate: Confessions of a Convert to Humanity
Claude AnShin Thomas
Chapter 26 Searching for Peace in the Peace Movement: a Lovers' Quarrel
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Chapter 27 Breaking out of the Culture of Violence: An Oral History with former Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
Nikolas Larrow-Roberts & John Perkins
Chapter 28       Inspiring Peace Workers
Marc Pilisuk & Michael N. Nagler

A Final Word
Marc Pilisuk & Michael N. Nagler
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors

Copies of Peace Movements Worldwide are available from:
ABC-CLIO |  Amazon.com | Barnes and Noble

Quotable Quote

"Why not try peace for a while? If we find war is better, it will not be difficult to fight again..."
- Abdu l-Baha,
Baha'i teacher

A Good Movie
People united and well led can shape history in positive ways, and do it nonviolently. Amazing Grace (2007), starring Ioan Gruffudd and directed by Michael Apted, documents how, with dedication and unswerving patience, the British trade in slaves was ended.

A Good Book

Sharp, G (2005) Waging Nonviolent Struggle. 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential. Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers Inc. An indispensable "how to" compendium.

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#19 Media Favorites: Peace Movements Worldwide (Jan. 2011)

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