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Book SynopsisConscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era’s draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 Background and Context  1 The United States Constitution  2 The Issue of Enumerated Powers  3 Civil War Conscription Antecedents 2 The Civil War: the Union  1 The Statute  2 Enrollment Refusal  3 Draft Refusal  4 Amendments to the Conscription Statute of 1863  5 Bounties  6 Conscientious Objectors  7 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  8 Conclusion 3 The Civil War: the Confederacy  1 The First Confederate Conscription Statutes  2 General Responses to Confederate Conscription  3 New Conscription Statutes, December 1863–February 1864  4 Official State Exemptions  5 Armed Resistance  6 The March 1865 Statute  7 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  8 Conclusion 4 World War I  1 The Statute  2 The Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918  3 Registration and Opposition to It  4 The Draft and Opposition to It  5 The Slacker Raids  6 Conscientious Objection  7 Draft Prosecutions during World War I  8 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  9 Conclusion 5 World War II  1 The Statute  2 The Draft in Operation  3 Conscientious Objectors  4 Civilian Public Service  5 Controversies Regarding Civilian Public Service  6 Resisters  7 The End of the World War II Draft  8 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  9 Conclusion 6 The Cold War and the Korean War  1 The 1948 Congressional Debate  2 The 1948 Conscription Statute  3 The 1950 Congressional Debate and Conscription Statute  4 The Doctors’ Draft (1950) and Other Draft Laws, 1951–63  5 The Draft in Operation  6 Conscientious Objectors  7 Resisters  8 National Service Board for Religious Objectors, the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, and the National Council against Conscription  9 The 1948 Statute and Segregation in the Military  10 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  11 Conclusion 7 The Vietnam War Era  1 Early Demonstrations and Preliminary Legal Skirmishes  2 The 1967 Conscription Statute  3 Nixon, the Lottery, and the End of the Draft  4 Evaders  5 Conscientious Objectors  6 Draft Resistance  7 The Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and the Spock-Coffin Indictment  8 The Draft Board Raids  9 Prosecutions  10 Legal Cases Pertaining to the Conscription Statute  11 Conclusion 8 Conclusion  1 Channeling  2 Is the Draft Unconstitutional?  3 Is there a Constitutional Right to Conscientious Objection? Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCe volume édité offre des nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA) et présente aux spécialistes dand la domaine paix et securité africaine des approches épistémologiques, conceptuelles et méthodologiques innovantes. Basé sur une ouverture intellectuelle et un intérêt pour les perspectives transdisciplinaires, le volume remet en question les courants dominants, nous invitant à réfléchir sur les pratiques de recherche elles-mêmes. S'appuyant sur les perspectives des études globales et des études critiques internationales, les auteurs suivent des approches inductives et laissent les données empiriques enrichir leurs cadres théoriques et leurs outils conceptuels. Dans cette entreprise, ils se concentrent sur les acteurs, les pratiques et les discours impliqués qui donne forme aux institutions regionales. Les analyses ici-présentes examine les hypothèses qui informent habituellement les études sur le régionalisme et la gouvernance en Afrique.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of philosophical papers that explores theoretical and practical aspects and implications of nonviolence as a means of establishing peace. The papers range from spiritual and political dimensions of nonviolence to issues of justice and values and proposals for action and change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Katy GRAY BROWN: Introduction: Beyond Safe Ground Part One: Spiritual Dimensions Jerald RICHARDS: Spirituality, Religion, Violence, and Nonviolence Joseph KUNKEL: The Spiritual Side of Peacemaking William C. GAY: Apocalyptic Thinking versus Nonviolent Action Part Two: Political Dimensions Anas KARZAI, Marianne VARDALOS: Understanding “Operation Enduring Freedom ” through the Persistence of Sacrifice, Revenge, and the Gift of Cruel Economies Gail PRESBEY: Strategic Nonviolence in Africa: Reasons for its Embrace and Later Abandonment by Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Kaunda Charles Martin OVERBY: The Treasure of Japan ’s Article 9: The World ’s Foremost Law for Peace, Justice, and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution JOHN KULTGEN: “Faceless Coward ”: Bush ’ s Anti-Terrorism Rhetoric Part Three: Justice and Values Maria H. MORALES: No Justice, No Peace Michael Patterson BROWN: Sharing a Sense of Justice: The Role of Conscience in Political Protest David BOERSEMA: Taking Compromise Seriously Andrew KELLEY: Kant on Freedom, Happiness, and Peace Part Four: Action and Change William C. GAY: A Normative Framework for Addressing Peace and Related Global Issues Beth J.SINGER: On Language and Social Change John KULTGEN: Making a Man of Her: Women in the Military Ian M. HARRIS: Assumptions behind Different Types of Peace Education About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses “containment” as it relates to interlocking discourses around the “War on Terror” as a global effort and its link to race and sexuality within the United States. The project emerged from the recognition that the events of 11 September 2001, prompted new efforts at containment with both domestic and international implications.Table of ContentsPreface Mary K. BLOODSWORTH-LUGO and Carmen R. LUGO-LUGO: Introduction Mary K. BLOODSWORTH-LUGO and Carmen R. LUGO-LUGO: “The War on Terror” and Same-Sex Marriage: United States Discourse and the Shaping of Public Opinion William C. GAY: Political Use of the “War on Terror” to Augment Domestic and International LGBT Repression Lisa GUERRERO: Fear and Negation in the American Racial Imaginary: Black Masculinity in the Wars on Terror and Same-Sex Marriage John STREAMAS: Gray Zones C. Richard KING: Defending Civilization from the Hostiles: Ward Churchill, Cultural Wars (on Terror), and the Silencing of Dissent Kyoo LEE: United We Stay . . . Home: Reading the Racialized Bildung of United States’ Children in Post-11 September 2001 Comfort Books Tracey NICHOLLS: George W. Bush’s Burden: Containing the “New World (Dis)Order” Jessica LEANN URBAN: Bordering on the Absurd: National, Civilizational, and Environmental Security Discourse on Immigration Jocelyn A. PACLEB: Soldiering “Green Card” Immigrants: Containing United States Citizenship Luz MARÍA GORDILLO: The Bracero, the Wetback, and the Terrorist: Mexican Immigration, Legislation, and National Security Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisPositive Peace is a scholarly and creative compilation of articles on peace education, nonviolence and social change. Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) sets the scene in his introduction with the challenge that positive peace is both a resisting of the physical violence of war and the passive violence of the psychological structures that lead to conflict. Peace education rises to meet that challenge. In twelve chapters, philosophers and educators look at a variety of topics from Gandhian nonviolence, to pragmatic conflict solving; hope and the ethics of belief, to the way we use violent language; mothering and peace activism, to multiculturalism and peace. Recurring themes are: pragmatic nonviolence, the ethics of care as an antidote to violence, and hope in a violent world. Chapters on the use of film in peace education, song and nonviolent activism, and teaching art history and peace, demonstrate pragmatic possibilities for would-be peace educators. Arun Gandhi in his introduction asks, “For generations human beings have strived to attain peace, but with little or no success. … Why is peace so illusive? Is it unattainable? Are humans incapable of living in peace?” This book suggests that peace education has a large part to play. It is an important attempt to begin to meet the challenge.Table of ContentsAndrew Fitz-Gibbon: Preface William C. Gay: Editorial Foreword Arun Gandhi: Guest Foreword Richard Werner: Hope and the Ethics of Belief Robert L. Muhlnickel: The Vulnerability Thesis and the Peacemaking Virtues Sanjay Lal: Gandhian Nonviolence as Not Presupposing Human Goodness William C. Gay: Nonviolent Rhetoric in Geopolitics Joseph Betz: Will Kymlicka as Peacemaker Anna Lübbe: Systemic Constellations and Their Potential in Peace Work Joseph Rayle: Peace Education: A Systemic Framework Paul J. Parks: Building Bridges to Peace: Teaching Tolerance through the History of Art Dennis Rothermel: Anti-War War Films Colleen Kattau: The Power of Song for Nonviolent Transformative Action Danielle Poe: Woman, Mother, and Nonviolent Activism Katina Sayers-Walker: The Blue Guitar, Blue Frog, and the Blues Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisRemembrance and reconciliation envision intentional pathways out of conflict and toward peace. Remembrance retraces the junctures in the past that determined what a nation has become. Probing accountability for past actions establishes accountability for what continues to happen. Revisiting what a nation has done brings the perspectives of the peoples of those nations into view.Table of ContentsDennis Rothermel: Preface Remembrance Dennis Rothermel: Introduction Duane L. Cady: Remembering the Present Eddy Souffrant: Vulnerability and Beneficence: Remembering the Past for the Sake of Peace Joseph Betz: Homeland Security, Fiduciary Care, and Duties to Foreign Nationals Joseph C. Kunkel: Forgetting and Not Reconciling Hiroshima Reconciliation Dennis Rothermel: Introduction Robert Paul Churchill: Compassion and Reconciliation David Boersema: What’s Wrong with Victims’ Rights? Rob Gildert: Pedagogy and Punishment: A Unitarian Argument for Restorative Justice Andrew Fitz-Gibbon: Perpetual Violence? Mimesis and Anamnesis William C. Gay: Language and Reconciliation Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the last few decades the practice, purpose and the very language of warfare have been radically transformed. This volume mobilizes the resources of a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities in combination with the insights of military practitioners to understand the metamorphosis of war.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Avery Plaw and Axel Augé: Introduction: The Transformations of War New Concepts of War and Terror Nick Mansfield: Fighting for Peace: From the Social War to Armed Democracy Jason Edwards: Foucault and the Continuation of War Bob Brecher: Why There is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism Confronting the New Wars: Law, Security and Diplomacy Avery Plaw: The Legality of Targeted Killing as an Instrument of War: The Case of the US Targeting of Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi Benjamin Rampp: Insecurity by Impreciseness: Towards a Specific Concept of Security Stuart Murray: Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Diplomacy as the Business of Peace New Wars, History and Cultural Change Mustafa Serdar Palabıyık: The Changing Ottoman Perception of War: From the Foundation of the Empire to Its Disintegration Pamela Chrabieh Badine: Youth and Peace: Alternative Voices in Lebanon Tim Markham: The Correspondent’s Experience of War Waging the New Wars Timothy D. Hoyt: ‘Like a Phoenix from the Ashes’: The IRA as a Multi-Generational Movement and its Relevance for the War on Terror Graeme Goldsworthy, Toby Chesson and Erica Pasini: Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright Bård Mæland: From Manifest Degradation to Latent Anticipation: Military Boredom in the First World War and Afghanistan

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Book SynopsisCh 1 British Expansionism in the Himalayan Regions.- Ch 2 Chinese Expansionism in the Himalayan regions.- Ch 3  British India, Tibet And The Republic Of China.- Ch 4 The Republic Of India, Tibet And The Republic Of China 1947-1949.- Ch 5 India, Tibet And China 19491951: The Failure Of Indian Diplomacy.

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Book SynopsisDr. Katrien Hertog is a peacebuilding researcher, trainer, and practitioner with 25 years of experience in the academic and non-governmental sector, as well as International Director of Peacebuilding Programs for The International Association for Human Values.

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