A Peace Reader: Essential Readings on War, Justice, Non-violence, and World Order

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Joseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong
Paulist Press, 1992 - Law - 483 pages
A Peace Reader Revised contains articles reflecting different and even opposing viewpoints, offering competing visions of the future. They range from the scholarly to the folksy; from the philosophical to the satirical; from the didactic to the poetic. In an effort to help students develop critical thinking skills, the authors include study questions after every major article. The result is a book as contemporary as today's headlines and as timeless as the wisdom of the ages.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Militarism in America The Defense
61
A Declining Empire Goes to War Paul Kennedy
76
ROTC Today and Tomorrow Robert F Collins
86
War Preparers Anonymous Kurt Vonnegut
95
Pacem in Terris Pope John XXIII
107
Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther
113
Socialism Informs the Best of
129
The Coward Eve Merriam
439
Independence Henry David Thoreau
443
War Is Kind Stephen Crane
445
CounterAttack Siegfried Sassoon
446
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen
448
The Battle of Blenheim Robert Southey
450
The Canticle of Brother Sun St Francis of Assisi
452
The War Prayer Mark Twain
454

The Wail of the Children Mother Jones
138
Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence Mohandas
171
To Oliver Cromwell and The Time
183
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187
Letter to a NonCommissioned
191
Why I Leave the F O R Reinhold
198
The Individual Conscience A J Muste
205
Are you a Conscientious Objector? CCCO
213
The Techniques of Nonviolent Action Gene Sharp
223
The Holocaust as a Problem in Moral
230
Those Who Said No to the Holocaust David Kitterman
249
Universal Declaration of Human
333
Redefining National Security Lester R Brown
339
Foreign Aid and U S National
345
An International
356
The Lesser Evil over the Greater Evil Jeane Kirkpatrick
362
Americas Liberal Tradition Charles William
370
Can Peace Be Imagined? Elise Boulding
377
Toward a Paradigm of Peace Betty A Reardon
391
The Scandal of Peace Education André Ryerson
404
Scientists and the Peace Movement Johan Galtung
421
September 1 1939 W H Auden
433
A Theft from Those Who Hunger Dwight D
455
HeroZero Anonymous G I
456
A Debt of Generosity Thucydides
457
Incident at Damascus Arkansas John Fandel
458
The Hairy Man from the East Chief Luther Standing Bear
459
My Religion Leo Tolstoy
460
The Dhammadapada Buddha
461
The Way of Life Laotse
462
Break up Your Fallow Ground Hosea 464
Hear This Micah 465
Swords into Plowshares Micah 466
Seek Good and Not Evil Amos 467
Let Justice Roll Amos 468
He Has Put Down the Mighty Luke 469
The Spirit of the Lord Luke 470
Blessed Are the Poor Matthew 471
Put on the Armor that God Gives Ephesians 472
Methods of Nonviolent Action Gene Sharp 473
Peace Upon Earth Thomas Hardy 480
Neither Blame Nor Praise Dante Alighieri 481
Easy Essay Peter Maurin 482
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