"People Power" Around the Globe: Selected Bibliography, Briefly
Annotated
BOOKS
A Peace Team Reader: Nonviolent Third-Party Crisis Intervention by NGOS, ed.
Michael Beer (1993). Nonviolence International, P.O. Box 39127, Friendship Station
NW, Washington DC 20016. A working document on active interventions around the
world.
Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent
Conflict. NY: St. Martin‚s Press, 2000. Also an excellent PBS film, on
Gandhi, Danes Against Hitler, Civil Rights/Nashville, etc.
David Adams and Michael True, „Unesco‚s Culture of Peace Programme:
An Introduction, International Peace Research
Association Newsletter. XXXV, NO. 1 (March 1997).
Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness, ed. Carolyn Forche. NY: W. W. Norton Co., 1993. Poems by dissidents. Who were silenced, imprisoned, exiled, or killed singing/About dark times.
Elise Boulding, Building a Global Civil Culture: Education for an Interdependent
World. Syracuse University Press, 1990, and Cultures
of Peace: The Hidden Side of History. Syracuse University Press, 2000. Peace
praxis among intergovernmental and nongovernmental
agencies associated with conflict, diversity, technology, and the future.
Steve Breyman, Why Movements Matter: The West German Peace Movement and U.S.
Arms Control Policy. Albany: State University of
NY Press, 2001. The success of the international anti-nuclear movement during
one of the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War.
Robert J. Burrowes, The Strategy of Nonviolent Defense: A Gandhian Approach.
Albany: State Uiversity of NY Press, 1996. Conflict theory, tactics, and international
relations.
Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent: Interiviews with David Barsamian. Monroe,
ME: Common Courage Press, 1992. A major
social critic on, people power around the world.
The Frontiers of Nonviolence, ed. Chaiwat Satha-Anand and Michael True. Bangkok:
International Peace Research Association, 2002.
Essays on nonviolent movements in China, the Philippines, etc..
Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order, ed. Jeremy Brecher, John Brown Childs,
and Jill Cutler. Boston: South End Press, 1993.
Activists, labor leaders, peace researchers from around the world, on, globalization
from above vs. globalization from below.
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children
of the World., 2001-2010. <http://www.unesco.org.cp> and< http://www.culture-of-peace.info>
No Alternative? Nonviolent Responses to Repressive Regimes, ed. John Lampen.
York, UK: William Sessions, Ltd. 2000. Nonviolent
interventions and conflict resolution in East Timor, South Africa, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Serbia.
Nonviolence: Contemporary issues and Challenges, ed. Mahendra Kumar. Delhi:
Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1994. Essays on new forms
of violence and modes of resistance in China, Islam, India, Italy, U.S., etc.
Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, ed. Staughton Lynd and Alice
Lynd. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books 1995. An expanded and updated edition of a
classic anthology.
Nonviolent Alternatives: Strategy and Global Experiece of Nonvolent Direct Action.
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. A
geography of global struggles, with brief reports and research issues on Africa,
Asia, Europe, the Americas, Middle East.
Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders: A Recurrent Vision, ed. Yeshua Moser-Punagsuwan
and Thomas Weber. Detailed accounts of
nonviolent inerposition, accompaniment, intervention seasons researchers.
Peace and World Security Studies: A Curriculum Guide, 6th ed., Michael T. Klare.
Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994. „An
indispensable guide, with course syllabi in peace studies, conflict resolution,
nonviolence, feminist perspectives.
Peacework: 20 Years of Nonviolent Social Change, ed. Pat Farren. Foreword by
Grace Paley. Baltimore: Fortkamp Publishing Co, 1991.
Brief articles on campaigns around the world. (see publication below)
Dirk Philipsen, We Were the People: Voices from east Germany‚s Revolutionary
Autumn of 1989. Duke University Press, 1992.
Successes in dissent and opposition in the GDR, among workers, religious organizations.
Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP
to Women‚s Suffrage, ed. Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele. NY: Garland
Publishing Co., 1997. An indispensable guide to movements,, campaigns, persons,
strategies past and present.
The Radical Handbook, ed. John Button. London: Cassell‚s 1995. Portraits
of figures, communities, organizations central to movements
for justice and peace around the world, with an introductory essay.
Adam Roberts, Civil Resistance in the East Europen and Soviet Revolutions. Monograph
4 (1991). Albert Einstein Institution (see
below). A survey of resistance, mostly nonviolent, in Poland, Hungary, Germany,
USSR.
Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1973,
and There Are Realistic Alternatives (the latter available on the web www.aeinstein.org
or Albert Einstein Institution (see below)
Michael True, Since 1989: The Concept of Global Nonviolence and Its Iimplications
for Peace Research, Social Alternatives (Australia), Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 1997),
8-11.
War Prevention Works: 50 Stories of People Resolving Conflict, ed. Dylan Mathews.
Oxford Research Group, 2001. Ordinary peope on
the power of nonviolence in Nigeria, Serbia, India, El Salvador, Somalia, Lebanon,
etc. <www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk>
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PERIODICALS
International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Newsletter, ed. John Synnott
and Hidekazu Sakai, School of Humanities and Social
Science, Queensland University of Technology. <j.synott@gut.edu.au>
International Journal of Peace Studies, ed. Cheng-Feng Shih, Tamkang University,
Taiwan. <ohio3106@ms8.hinet.net>
Peace Magazine. Quarterly P.O. Box 248, station P, Toronto M5S 2S7 <www.peacemagazine.org>
Peacework. Monthly. American Friends Service Committee (address below) <www.afsc.org/peacework>
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FILMS AND VIDEOS
A Force More Powerful. A superb six-hour PBS film, narrated by Ben Kingsley
and based upon the book by Peter and DuVall (see above). <www.films.com>
Film Resource Library, American Friends Service Committee, 2161 Massachusetts
Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 Tel. (617) 661-6130
Maryknoll World Productions, P.O. Box 308, Maryknoll, NY 10545.Tel. (800) 227-8523.
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