Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 13: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS This section includes (but is not limited to) material on: citizen diplomacy and "people to people" campaigns; nonviolent accompaniment and unarmed cross-border intervention; world citizenship; both war tax resistance and peace tax campaigning; the environmental aspects of warfare; analysis of media coverage of war and wars; and opposition to military-related academic research. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. To Asia in Peace: The Story of a Non-Violent Action Mission to Indo China, (Ed) Pat Arrowsmith (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), pbk £2.95 Food not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community, CT Lawrence Butler & Keith McHenry (New Society Publishers, Philadephia, USA, 1992), pbk £8.50 The ideas and the practicalities, including tales of imaginative battles with repressive and uncomprehending authorities. Includes recipes for meals from discarded food. My Country is the World - The Adventures of a World Citizen, Garry Davis (Macdonald & Co, 1962), hbk £10.00 The New Diplomats - Citizens as Ambassadors for Peace, Jim Garrison and John-Francis Phipps with Pyare Shivpuri (Green Books, 1989), pbk £5.95 War and Peace News, Glasgow University Media Group (Open University Press, 1985), pbk £5.95 Radioactive Heaven & Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on and above the earth, IPPNW (Zed Books, 1991), £7.00 The Tax Dilemma: Praying for Peace, Paying for War, Donald D Kaufman (Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, USA, 1978), pbk £6.50 Servas 1949-1989: an Experiment in Peace Building, Pat Knowles (1989), pbk £9.50 Soldiers In The Laboratory, Chris Langley (Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2005), pbk £12.50 This report documents the power and infuence of the military in science, engineering and technology in the UK in recent years. More Soldiers In The Laboratory: The militarisation of science and technology - an update, Chris Langley (Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2007), £2.50 This short report provides an update to Soldiers In The Laboratory, published by SGR in 2005, and also highlights problems in obtaining this sort of information, despite the Freedom of Information Act. Behind Closed Doors - Military influence, commercial pressures, and the compromised university, Chris Langley, Stuart Parkinson and Philip Webber (Scientists for Global Responsibility, Folkestone, 2008), £3.50 This report builds on the disclosures of, and recommendations in, Soldiers In The Laboratory and More Soldiers In The Laboratory. It focuses on the impact of military sector influence within the research and teaching environment of universities in the UK. Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick (Hawthorn Press, 2005), pbk £25.00 Looks at the way much coverage of conflict fuels further violence, with topical case studies, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance. Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights, Liam Mahony and Luis Enrique Eguren (Kumarian Press, 1997), pbk £20.00 An inspirational story, focusing especially on the role of Peace Brigades International in Guatemala. Dams and Other Disasters - a century of the army corps of engineers in civil works, Arthur E Morgan (Porter Sargent, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1971), hbk £5.00 The book documents a hundred years of incompetence and political manipulation by a section of the US army, laying bare its carefully nurtured public image as a body working in the public interest. Nonviolent Intervention Across Borders - A Recurrent Vision, (Eds) Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Thomas Weber (Spark M Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, 2000), pbk £20.00 The book gives examples of nonviolent cross-border direct interventions undertaken by activists rather than by humanitarian agencies. Citizens' Diplomacy - A Handbook on Anglo-Soviet Initiatives, Claire Ryle and Jim Garrison (Merlin Press, 1986), pbk £4.00 Peace Under Fire - Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, (Eds) Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Huseein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni (Verso, 2004), pbk £5.00 (reduced from £15.00) Accounts of the ISM's support for Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israeli military occupation. Study War No More - Military involvement in UK universities, Tim Street with Martha Beale (Fellowship of Reconciliation and Campaign Against Arms Trade, 2007) pbk £3.00 Explosive Remnants of War - Mitigating the Environmetnal Effects, (Ed) Arthur H Westing (Taylor & Francis, for SIPRI, 1985), hbk £6.50 Produced as part of a project between SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme on "Military activities and the human environment". Amity in the Middle East - How the World Sports Peace Project and the Passion for Football brought together Arab and Jewish Youngsters, Geoffrey Whitfield (The Alpha Press, Brighton, 2006), pbk £14.95 Don't Shoot the Clowns - Taking a circus to the children of Iraq, Jo Wilding (New Internationalist, 2006), pbk £8.99 ORGANISATIONS you can contact which are concerned with some of the issues here include: Conscience - the Peace Tax Campaign, Archway Resource Centre, 1b Waterlow Rd, London N19 5NJ, Britain (tel +44-20-7561 1061; fax 7281 6508; e-mail info@conscienceonline.org.uk; web http://www.conscienceonline.org.uk). Peace Brigades International (PBI), 28 Charles Square, London N1, Britain (tel +44-20-7324 4628; e-mail admin@peacebrigades.org; web http://www.peacebrigades.org). War Resisters' International (WRI), 5 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9DX, Britain (tel +44-20-7278 4040; fax 7278 0444; e-mail info@wri-irg.org; web http://wri-irg.org). For further useful contacts see the Directory published in the latest Housmans Peace Diary.