For those who may be interested in beginning to read about peace studies, here are the books we are reading in Introduction to Peace Studies this semester:

• William Ury, The Third Side (Penguin Books, 2000).
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1996).
• David Cortright, Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism (Boulder and London: Paradigm Publishers, 2006).
• Helena Meyer-Knapp, Dangerous Peacemaking (Olympia, WA:  Peace-Maker Press, 2003).
• Daniel L. Smith-Christopher, editor, Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions (Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 1998).

And here are some anthologies that collect shorter writings on peace from a variety of authors:

• Howard Zinn, ed., The Power of Nonviolence (Boston, MA:  Beacon Press, 2002).
• Walter Wink, ed., Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000).

And, of course, the autobiographies of notable advocates of nonviolence are well worth reading:

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson (New York: Warner Books, 2001).
• Gandhi, Mahatma, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).