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Author : Josie Sandercock
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Peace Under Fire by : Josie Sandercock
Download or read book Peace Under Fire written by Josie Sandercock. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of this movement reveals the horror of the occupation and the new hope for growing international solidarity.
Author : Marianne Elliott
Release : 2013-06-04
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 129/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Zen Under Fire by : Marianne Elliott
Download or read book Zen Under Fire written by Marianne Elliott. This book was released on 2013-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am about to be left in charge of the office. I'm not sure I'm ready for the responsibility, so I double-check with my boss. He reassures me. "You'll be fine, Marianne. As long as no one kills Amanullah Khan, you'll be fine." By midday, Amanullah Khan is dead. Marianne Elliot is a human rights lawyer stationed with the UN in Herat when the unthinkable happens: a tribal leader is assassinated, and she must defuse the situation before it leads to widespread bloodshed. And this is just the beginning of the story in Afghanistan. Zen Under Fire lays bare the struggles of a war-torn region from a uniquely personal perspective. Honest and vivid, her story reveals the shattering effect that the high-stress environment has on Marianne and her relationships. Redefining the question of what it really means to do good in a country that is under siege from within, Zen Under Fire is an honest, moving, at times terrifying true story of a women's experience at peacekeeping in one of the most dangerous places on Earth. "This is an amazing book, kind of like if Eat, Pray, Love had happened in Afghanistan and the stakes were life and death."—Susan Piver, New York Times bestselling author of Wisdom of a Broken Heart
Author : Josie Sandercock
Release : 2004-07-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 012/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Peace Under Fire by : Josie Sandercock
Download or read book Peace Under Fire written by Josie Sandercock. This book was released on 2004-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of this movement reveals the horror of the occupation and the new hope for growing international solidarity.
Author : Matthew Levitt
Release : 2008-08-28
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Negotiating Under Fire by : Matthew Levitt
Download or read book Negotiating Under Fire written by Matthew Levitt. This book was released on 2008-08-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of severe security crises on peace negotiations represents one of the most significant facets of modern conflict resolution theory to remain under-researched. It also stands out as the factor most likely to derail inherently sensitive negotiations. Negotiating Under Fire explores how such crises between two nations impact diplomatic initiatives between those countries. How do the negotiators' willingness and ability to continue influence the outcome? Do the levels of legitimacy, trust, and confidence within and between the parties change in such strained negotiations? Through a detailed analysis of three critical moments in the Oslo peace process—the Baruch Goldstein Hebron massacre of 1994, the Nachshon Wachsman kidnapping and execution of 1994, and the nine-day string of suicide bus bombings carried out in Israel in March of 1996—the author concludes that insurgents or those hostile to peace talks can and do undermine negotiations.
Author : Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Release : 2009-03-02
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 183/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Citizenship under Fire by : Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Download or read book Citizenship under Fire written by Sigal R. Ben-Porath. This book was released on 2009-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she writes, "The varying characteristics of citizenship in times of war and peace add up to a distinction between belligerent citizenship, which is typical of democracies in wartime, and the liberal democratic citizenship that is characteristic of more peaceful democracies." Ben-Porath examines how various theories of education--principally peace education, feminist education, and multicultural education--speak to the distinctive challenges of wartime. She argues that none of these theories are satisfactory on their own theoretical terms or would translate easily into practice. In the final chapter, she lays out her own alternative theory--"expansive education"--which she believes holds out more promise of widening the circles of participation in schools, extending the scope of permissible debate, and diversifying the questions asked about the opinions voiced.
