Peace studies and conflict resolution Books
Select Books Inc Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again
Book SynopsisTo recreate a whole and sacred America, it is important to piece together the forgotten fragments of history that are currently keeping the country divided. Just as a traditional Native American potter begins a new pot with shards of old pots—honoring the ancestors, bringing the energies of the past into the present—Original Politics re-constellates the nation as a whole out of the seemingly disparate shards from our origins. The most significant forgotten piece is the profound effect Native America had on the founding values of this nation. Original Politics convincingly demonstrates how the best aspects of the founding vision of America were inspired, or directly appropriated, from living, Native American cultures: concepts such as natural rights, liberty, and egalitarian justice. Further, Parry traces the influence of Native America not only on the founding fathers, but on the ‘founding mothers’ of the 19th century women’s movement; as well as the 19th century abolitionist and modern ecological movements. Native America has inspired what Parry sees as the sacred purpose of the nation: bringing all the world’s peoples together on one soil in a harmonious cultural mosaic of unity in diversity. While there have been periodic setbacks (devolution) in our nation’s history, including today, these only serve as catalysts reigniting our sacred purpose. America is creating a new melting pot, and like the original vision, it will be a creation from the many into the one—only this time it must not leave anyone out. This includes the natural world. Original Politics is ultimately about respecting all forms of life and all forms of political expression as different aspects of one whole. It is a reclamation project that brings people, land, and nation together as one. The overall effect of the book is profoundly healing.Trade Review"For peace and harmony to prevail, the truth must be told. We are instructed never to take hope from the people." Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation Author of Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the US Constitution"Parry's richly-textured book holds out hope and guidance for this moment of political conflict over diversity amid fear for the continuation of life on the planet. Inviting us to see how this challenge is the stimulus to transform the conflict into unity of purpose, the author provides us with a roadmap for how to do it through a new worldview that reestablishes an Indigenous connection with the natural world. This worldview privileges place over time, relationship over product, and revalues the feminine, enabling us to rebalance culturally and ensure the survival of life on the planet."Sally Roesch Wagner, Founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation Author of Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influence on Early American Feminists and The Women's Suffrage Movement"Thank you, thank you, Niawen (in Mohawk), K'olabal (in Maya Tzotzil), muchas gracias, merci beaucoup, to you. If all 'white' people held such a deep consciousness for Natives as you do, the world would already be truly blessed and sacred. There is no way one can stay neutral when reading you, I'm crying, I'm touched, shaking and totally stirred up!!! This is all so good in spirit." Ohki Simine Forest (Canadian Mohawk), Author of Dreaming the Council Ways , is a vision-holder and spiritual teacher"Some people are aware of the impact Native cultures had on the development of the US. The vast majority are not. Original Politics finds a unique way of telling the true story." Harlan McKosato(Sac and Fox Nation), Former long-time host of the nationally syndicated radio show Native America Calling"In a fractured time when a rude politics of nationalism rides in the high saddle as the climate crisis and many other environmental problems demand effective international co-operation, the world needs Glenn Aparicio Parry's Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again . Engagingly written, mixing the best of the past and present, the indigenous and immigrant, appreciating everyone's beauty: that is how we forge a sustainable future. Parry traces a path. Life on Earth will be better if everyone everyone , regardless of race, religion, and classre-learns what many indigenous ancestors call "the original instructions." Read this book, enjoy it, and pass the word: we cooperate, or we face a hot, miserable future world squabbling over toxic crumbs." Bruce E. Johansen, Author of Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy and The Iroquois: The History and Culture of Native Americans"In a brilliant historical retelling, Original Politics makes clear that America's sacred legacywhile appearing to have fallen in the ditch of a crude and phony populismis destined to be a thriving pluralistic democracy and a sanctuary of ecological values." James O'Dea, Former president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, author of Cultivating Peace and The Conscious Activist" Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again is an important and timely book for helping the United States move beyond its current crisis. Parry's writing flows beautifully and thoughtfully, as he shows how returning to the nation's mix of Native and European roots can effectively meet its current problems and heal its divisions." Stephen Sachs, Author of Honoring the Circle: Ongoing Learning from American Indians on Politics and Society , with Bruce Johansen, Betty Booth Donohue, Donald Grinde, et al."In Original Politics , Parry draws on his lifetime of work in association with Native scholars and teachers as the lens through which he considers both the current polarized and dysfunctional American political situation and the coming global environmental catastrophe. Parry gently suggests that our public business, our politics, can only change when we return to the spiritual, caring values that characterize the way Native people see their purpose in life regarding nature: as guardians and caretakers, not as masters, users or exploiters. These concepts were inherent in the principles the founding fathers appropriated from Native American tribes whom they lived and worked with . . . principles from which we have allowed ourselves to stray from at our peril." Senator GeraldP. "Jerry" Ortiz y Pino, New Mexico Legislature
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Island Press Spirit of Dialogue: Lessons from Faith Traditions
Book SynopsisWe tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist's interest is in using that same water for instream habitats. It's hard to see how these interests intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each party's needs? Aaron T. Wolf has spent his career mediating such conflicts, both in the U.S. and around the world. He quickly learned that in negotiations, people are not automatons, programed to defend their positions, but are driven by a complicated set of dynamics--from how comfortable (or uncomfortable) the meeting room is to their deepest senses of self. What approach or system of understanding could possibly untangle all these complexities? Wolf's answer may be surprising to Westerners who are accustomed to separating religion from science, rationality from spirituality. Wolf draws lessons from a diversity of faith traditions to transform conflict. True listening, as practiced by Buddhist monks, as opposed to the "active listening" advocated by many mediators, can be the key to calming a colleague's anger. Alignment with an energy beyond oneself, what Christians would call grace, can change self-righteousness into community concern. Shifting the discussion from one about interests to one about common values--both farmers and environmentalists share the value of love of place--can be the starting point for real dialogue. As a scientist, Wolf engages religion not for the purpose of dogma but for the practical process of transformation. Whether atheist or fundamentalist, Muslim or Jewish, Quaker or Hindu, any reader involved in difficult dialogue will find concrete steps towards a meeting of souls.
£21.84
Shambhala Publications Inc Painting Peace: Art in a Time of Global Crisis
Book SynopsisA revered modern artist and Zen teacher offers an inspirational account of how his art has been the expression of a life of social activism.?Awakening,? says Kazuaki Tanahashi, ?is to realize the infinite value of each moment of your own life as well as of other beings, then to continue to act accordingly.? This book is the record of a life spent acting accordingly: Through his prose, poetry, letters, lyrics, and art, Tanahashi provides an inspirational account of a what it?s been like to work for peace and justice, from his childhood in Japan to the present day. Included are fascinating vignettes of the seminal figures who refined his views--among them Daniel Ellsberg, Gary Snyder, Mayumi Oda, and Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido--as well as striking examples of the art he has so famously used to bear witness to the infinite value of life.
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Connecting Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation
Book SynopsisCan postconflict states achieve both peace and justice as they deal with a traumatic past? What role does reconciliation play in healing wounds, building trust, and rectifying injustices? This provocative book, incorporating the frameworks of both peace/conflict studies and transitional justice, explores the core challenges that war-torn states confront once the violence has ended.The book is organized around a series of questions, each one the subject of a chapter, with each chapter presenting a wide range of practical examples and case studies. The author also stakes out a position on each question, encouraging readers to evaluate and respond to ideas, practices, and strategies. Narratives are a notable feature of the work, with the human consequences of war and peace highlighted throughout.Trade Review“Porter creates space for theorists, researchers, and practitioners as well as students, grassroots activists, and organizations to see the possibilities and promise of peace and justice in post-conflict zones afresh.... [She] weaves scholarship and personal experiences of victim-survivors in a way that illumines both theory and the particular, situational experience regarding the grave consequences of war and violence.... Porter's multidisciplinary, sound scholarly presentation of research and narratives is humanizing, regardless of one’s position or social location.” - Karen D. Crozier, Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies “An overdue and thoughtful articulation of the complex interrelationship [among] peace, working for justice, and building postconflict reconciliation.... As an undergraduate text in peace and conflict studies, this book serves an important purpose.” - Jeremy A. Rinker, Peace & ChangeTable of ContentsConnecting Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation.Why Are War Narratives Important?How Does War Damage Humanity?Do Truth Commissions Work?Can Trust Be Built in Divided Societies?What Can Apology and Forgiveness Achieve?Can Compassion Be Practiced in Postconflict Contexts?What Happens in Reconciliation?Conclusion.
£21.95
Berrett-Koehler The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical
Book SynopsisDespite the fact that two of the 20th centuryâs most monumental revolutions achieved their aims through nonviolent action, the world continues to view nonviolence as a passive, ineffectual tactic. In this short and powerful book, renowned peace activist Michael Nagler challenges this assertion, demonstrating that nonviolence succeeds through aggressively strategic and sustained action. It demands greater courage and discipline than violence.Distilling the core theories of nonviolence and drawing deeply from the lives of leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., this action-oriented handbook offers both guidance for nonviolent resistance and advice for building constructive movements capable of restructuring the very bedrock of society. Nagler also includes stories of successful nonviolent resistance that have been ignored by the mass media. The book features a list of resources that offer pathways to immediate action and engagement with the peace movement worldwide.
£10.44
Orbis Books (USA) The Two Hands of Yes and No: One Family's
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Trine Day Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison
Book SynopsisCJ Hinke was arrested in more than 35 civil disobedience actions organized by the pacifist movement from 1963 to 1969. He was the last American arrested for the Vietnam draft and was pardoned by Jimmy Carter in his first official act as US president. After moving to Canada, he defended himself before the British Columbia Supreme Court, and served prison time, including solitary confinement, for blockading clearcut logging and roadbuilding by multinational corporados. Fear is what keeps most citizens from active resistance. This book is intended to break that cycle of fear and encourage broad resistance to militarism. Free Radicals: War Resisters in Prison is the first chronicle of absolutist resisters to war from World War I through Iraq and Afghanistan, surveying military conscription and desertion worldwide. The book's extensive bibliography on war resistance, conscription, and prisons is the first in its field.
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Nimbus Publishing (CN) Speaking Up: New Voices on War and Peace in Nova
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Nimbus Publishing Limited Disruptive Women
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£21.78
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mission Accomplished?: The Crisis of
Book SynopsisWhy do politicians send troops to foreign soil, to fight battles they rarely win? Is it old-fashioned imperialism tainted with a crusader complex? Or is the West a partisan for the helpless? The fall of the Soviet Union left the West aimless. With no conflicting dogma to reinforce its sense of justice the West assumed the role of global policeman - aid graduated from charitable to economic and, finally, military. Ideological struggle was replaced by a vague and confused concept of international justice, shrouded in real-politik. Yet scepticism now pervades the interventionist debate. Simon Jenkins traces the rise of 'liberal interventionism' from Kosovo and the 'war on terror' to present day conflicts in Libya, Syria and Ukraine, asking: what can we learn from the miscalculations, mistakes, and mendacity of 'the age of intervention'? As ISIS sweeps through Middle-East, calls for a military solution are increasing. By exposing interventionist rhetoric and highlighting past mistakes, Jenkins gives us an invaluable contribution to the active and essential debate on the West's role in global conflicts.Trade Review'A rare and intriguing voyage. Most of us would not dare to do what Simon Jenkins has done, revisit what he wrote of still current issues. Too often journalists turn out to be right in their reporting, and the decision makers prove to be wrong. Here's a book that proves it' - Jon Snow; 'stimulating' - Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian; 'both intelligent and informative' - Douglas Alexander, New Statesman; 'one can never have enough of Sir Simon Jenkins...many of Jenkins's criticisms of Western intervention are...compelling.' - Michael Burleigh, Literary Review; 'This is no doubt a book well worth reading regardless of agreement or disagreement with Jenkins' views. At times his writing is deeply prophetic and is a shocking gut punch of a read and a reminder of the many, many mistakes made in our recent past that have brought us to the current quagmire we face.' - Chris Murray, The Defence ReportTable of ContentsPreface Introduction1 Into Yugoslavia 2 Marking Time: Interlude in Sierra Leone 3 Eruption: Nine Eleven 4 Into Afghanistan 5 Back to Iraq6 Iraq: The Big One 7 Iraq: Aftermath Part One 8 Iraq: Aftermath Goes Steady State 9 Return to Afghanistan 10 Endgame Eludes Iraq, Again 11 Intervention Goes Viral: Tehran, Kabul, Baghdad,Rangoon, Harare 12 The Age of Endgames 13 Springtime in Libya 14 Aftermath: Syria, Yemen, Mali, Ukraine Epilogue Index
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Parallax Press Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis
Book SynopsisIn this Buddhist perspective on resolving conflict, global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates how a real peace process is based on spiritual, not political strength. Inspired by an ongoing Buddhist retreat project for Palestinians and Israelis, Peace Begins Here offers practical ways to handle our strong emotions and misperceptions and provides a possible way out of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.Peace Begins Here features stories from individual Palestinians and Israelis, as well as examples from Thich Nhat Hanh’s life, including his experience with nonviolent action during the war in Vietnam and its aftermath. Highlights include personal stories from participants in the peace retreats and Thich Nhat Hanh’s collected practices for peace, including deep listening, deep relaxation, mindful walking, mindful eating, and loving speech.
£12.15
Haus Publishing The Peace That Never Was: A History of the
Book SynopsisNinety years ago the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to settle disputes by diplomacy not war. This book looks at how the League was shaped and the multifaceted body that emerged, and how it was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as well as its role in human rights and refugee issues. The failure of the League to prevent the Second World War would lead to its dissolution and the subsequent creation of the United Nations. Can the UN's fate be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor?Trade ReviewHenig provides greater depth, and much more authority, than the textbooks. She is a sure, and also an entertaining, guide'. -History Review
£11.39
Brepols N.V. Peace and Negotiation
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£38.51
Aschendorff Verlag The Public Role of the Church in Contemporary
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£98.80
Aschendorff Verlag Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate
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£58.00
Aschendorff Verlag Die Harte Schule Der Neuen Gewalt: Denkwege
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£54.00
Aschendorff Verlag Proactive Tolerance: The Key to Peace
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£65.55
Bohlau Verlag Frühneuzeitliche Friedensstiftung in
Book SynopsisDie Historische Friedensforschung ist angesichts der vielgestaltigen Konflikte der gegenwärtigen Staatenwelt gefragter denn je. Gerade die Epoche der Frühen Neuzeit bietet aufgrund ihrer auffällig hohen Kriegsdichte zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte zur Erforschung der Frage, wie in der Vergangenheit konkret versucht wurde, Frieden herzustellen. Zwar sind zentrale Aspekte frühneuzeitlicher Friedensstiftung, wie Friedenskongresse und -verträge, Verhandlungstechniken oder Friedensdenken, in der neueren Geschichtswissenschaft bereits intensiv analysiert worden. In zweiter Reihe stand bislang allerdings die landesgeschichtliche Verortung der erzielten Befunde. Angesichts des defizitären Forschungsstands zielt der Sammelband darauf ab, in territorial und europäisch übergreifender Weise die Potenziale einer Verbindung landesgeschichtlicher Fragestellungen mit der Historischen Friedensforschung aufzuzeigen.
£60.93
Bohlau Verlag Koln Frieden Und Menschenrechte: Studien Zur
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£45.44
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht In Viam Pacis: Praktiken Niederlandischer Und
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£90.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Societies in Transition: Sub-Saharan Africa
Book SynopsisThe second volume of the trans-disciplinary series Research in Peace and Reconciliation looks at ways of dealing with the past in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent decades and highlights the variety of peaceful strategies and processes. It asks to what extent this variety fosters the development of alternative methods for the transformation of violent conflict.The contributions focus on different African countries and regions as Chad, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. They take into account the influence of particular cultural contexts on processes of reconciliation. In doing so, they emphasize the importance of religions, rites, and tribal customs as well as the complex legacy of colonialism. They also look at the presentation of the topic in Western media.Many thanks go to the Ernst-Abbe-Foundation (Jena) for its generous support of the publication.
£124.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht AsiaPacific Between Conflict and Reconciliation
Book SynopsisTranslating the Western concept of reconciliation into a universal idiom
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG The Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe
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£115.05
Matthias Grunewald Verlag Friedens-Raume: Interkulturelle Friedenstheologie
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£52.25
EOS - Editions Sankt Ottilien Spiritual Empowerment of Peace Builders: A
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£75.05
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Religions and World Peace: Religious Capacities
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£25.50
V&R unipress GmbH Friedensbildung: Das Hamburger interdisziplinäre
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£60.63
V&R unipress GmbH World Peace through Christian-Muslim
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£64.12
V&R Unipress Osnabrucker Jahrbuch Frieden Und Wissenschaft
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£29.00
V&R Unipress Internationale Beziehungen. Theorie und
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V&R unipress GmbH Eine Friedensordnung für Europa?: Der Vertrag von
Book SynopsisAm 18. Jänner 1919 schien die gesamte Welt auf Paris zu blicken, als der französische Ministerpräsident Raymond Poincaré die Friedenskonferenz eröffnete. Man wollte einen dauerhaften Frieden für die gesamte Welt schließen und war dementsprechend motiviert. Doch bald sollte diese anfängliche Euphorie der harten politischen Realität weichen: Spätestens mit der Unterzeichnung des Vertrages von Versailles am 28. Juni 1919 war auch der österreichischen Delegation unter Karl Renner bewusst, dass es wenig Verhandlungsspielraum gab und man sich mit einem Friedensdiktat werde abfinden müssen. Im ersten Beitrag werden die Pariser Friedensverhandlungen und die Rolle der österreichischen Delegation thematisiert. Die beiden folgenden Beiträge beleuchten wesentliche und weitreichende Inhalte des Vertrages von St. Germain: die Minderheitenfrage und das Anschlußverbot. Der letzte Artikel weist auf die globale Dimension des Vertrages hin: Österreich musste das Opiumabkommen von 1912 unterzeichnen. Poincaré opened the Peace Conference. They wanted to have a sustainable peace for the whole world and thus people were very motivated. Yet, shortly after this event the emerging euphory made way for the harsh political reality: After the treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919 Karl Renner, leader of the Austrian delegation, was well aware that negotiations were hardly possible and one had to cope with the peace dictate. The first contribution explores the peace negotiations of Paris and the role of the Austrian delegation. The two following contributions discuss crucial and wide-ranging points of the Treaty of Saint-Germain: The treatment of minorities and the Anschlußverbot (the prohibition on the merging of German-Austria and Germany). The last article addresses the global dimension of the treaty: Austria had to sign the International Opium Convention of 1912.
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V&R unipress GmbH Osnabrücker Jahrbuch Frieden und Wissenschaft
Book SynopsisVor 30 Jahren, im Frühjahr 1989, protestierte eine Bewegung von Studierenden auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens in Peking öffentlich gegen die Regierung der Staatspartei KPCH. Es ging ihnen um die Freiheit politischer Kritik und die Möglichkeit, unabhängige Organisationen zu gründen. Der Protest und die Hoffnungen auf politische Veränderungen wurden niedergeschlagen. Der lange Zeit inhaftierte chinesische Schriftsteller Liao Yiwu war als literarischer Chronist der Proteste in Peking Podiumsgast bei den Osnabrücker Friedensgesprächen. Ein Sieg der Freiheit in der Folge des weltpolitischen Umbruchs von 1989 ist bisher nicht eingetreten. Das zeigen aktuelle Verfolgungen und Verhaftungen von Oppositionellen etwa in der Türkei, im Sudan, in Russland, Iran oder in Hongkong. Fälle wie der des in Istanbul ermordeten Journalisten Khashoggi und vieler anderer Kritiker, Menschenrechtsaktivisten und Whistleblower veranschaulichen die andauernde Verletzlichkeit der Freiheit von Meinungsäußerung und Information, der Freiheit des Aufenthalts und ungehinderter Bewegung sowie des Anspruchs auf körperliche Unversehrtheit. Freiheitsbedrohungen durch verbale Angriffe mit persönlicher, politischer und religiöser Zielsetzung, Diffamierungen und Beleidigungen, wie sie die sozialen Medien transportieren, kommen hinzu. Davon ist vieles erlaubt, durch das Grundrecht der freien Meinungsäußerung, auch der Kunstfreiheit gedeckt. Doch die Freiheit des Einzelnen kann nur so weit reichen, wie die Freiheit des Nächsten unverletzt bleibt. Unter dem Zeichen der Freiheit versammelt der vorliegende, 26. Band des Jahrbuches der Osnabrücker Friedensgespräche Fälle und Aspekte der Bedrohung individueller Freiheit(en), aber auch Reflexionen über die Auswirkungen jener Freiheiten, von denen regierende Staatenlenker wie z.B. Donald Trump souverän Gebrauch machen.
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V&R Unipress Weltinnenpolitik Und Internationale Polizei:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Public Role of the Church in Contemporary
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£72.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Chivalrous Combatants?: The Meaning of Military
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£33.75
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention
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£51.75
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft OSCE Yearbook 2017: Yearbook on the Organization
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£60.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Collaboration in Water Resource Management in
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£42.75
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Rebel Parties in African Post-Conflict Elections:
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Migration, Stability and Solidarity
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft From the North Atlantic to the South China Sea:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Transitional Justice in Colombia: The Special
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£36.45
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Peace Mediation in Germany's Foreign Policy:
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£42.75
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Peacebuilding Process in Postwar Liberia: A
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£54.40
Peeters Publishers Studying War-No More?: From Just War to Just
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