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Reading Group – Preliminary Readings

Laura Rediehs — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:41:26 +0000

Here is a page with links to some online readings on peace and nonviolence. Some of the readings are classic articles. Others give an overview of important concepts and principles that are discussed in peace studies, including, for example, nonviolence, civil disobedience, satyagraha, just war theory, and human rights. Whether you are in the Peace Studies Reading Group or not, feel free to have a look! If you have additional reading suggestions, please feel free to add them in the “comments” section!

Faculty/Staff Reading Group

Laura Rediehs — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:22:08 +0000

The Peace Studies Advisory Board invites faculty and staff from St. Lawrence University who wish to learn more about peace and nonviolence to join our Reading Group.

We plan to meet on Fridays at noon on the following dates: February 20, March 6, March 13, April 3, and April 17.

We will read William Ury’s The Third Side, and parts of Gene Sharp’s The Politics of Nonviolent Action.

If you are a faculty member or staff member at St. Lawrence University, and would like to participate in this reading group, please contact Laura Rediehs for more information!

Reading List

Laura Rediehs — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:34:36 +0000

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).