Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the GENERAL PEACE ISSUES 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 14: GENERAL PEACE ISSUES Books in this section deal with broad (or sometimes just varied) aspects of war and/or peace, and include very general "let's have peace" material, and assorted "ideas for peace". Some of them are much more interesting than this might suggest, but are just hard to classify elsewhere! Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. Courageously Crossing Thresholds: 29 Examples of International Peace Work (The Threshold Foundation, Bremen, Germany, 2003), pbk £3.00 The stories of the winners and other prize nominees of the foundation's Bremen Peace Award. Science for Peace and Socialism, JD Bernal & Maurice Cornforth (Birch Books, London, c1950), pbk £5.00 Articles of Peace - celebrating fifty years of Peace News, (Eds) Gail Chester and Andrew Rigby (Prism Press, Bridport, Dorest, 1986), pbk £7.50 Taking a contemporaneous look at some of the key issues covered by PN during its first 50 years - relating these issues to the paper's coverage, but not primarily a history of PN. Peace is the Way - Bringing War and Violence to an End, Deepak Chopra (Rider, 2005), £12.99 The Quest for Peace, (Eds) Andrew C Cordier and Wilder Foote (Columbia University Press, New York, USA, 1965), hbk £6.50 The Dag Hammarskjold memorial lecture series. The Palace of Crystal - A World Without War, Harry Davis (Arena Books, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 2007), £20.99 With its title taken from Dostoevsky, this book considers what precipitates unwilling populations into war, and how we seem mesmerised by leaders. The Dynamics of War and Revolution, Lawrence Dennis (Institute for Historical Review, Torrance, California, USA, 1980), pbk £3.50 The Peace Book - 108 Simple Ways to Create a More Peaceful World, Louise Diamond (Conari Press, Berkeley, California, 2001), £3.00 A Search for Alternatives to War and Violence (Ed) Ted Dunn (James Clarke and Co, London, 1963), pbk £8.00 A selection of writings, inspired by a major peace movement conference (organised by a consortium of peace organisations) held in Colchester in 1961. Two dozen authors - some of them being leading thinkers in their field - look at different understandings of peace, and at methods ranging from international political institutions to direct action. Men Against War, Nicholas Gillett (Victor Gollancz, 1965), hbk £12.00 Portraits of eight great peacemakers. Peace: The Plain Man's Guide to War-Prevention, Hugh Hanning (Cecil Woolf, London, 1988), hbk £4.00 Looks at how to overcome the obstacles to a more peaceful world. Peace is Possible, Fredrick S Heffermehl (International Peace Bureau, 1999), pbk £3.00 Special short edition for the 1999 International Peace Conference in The Hague - 30 short, popular essays for peace. The Path to World Peace and The Citizenship Contract, Johan Alexander Helenius (self-published, 2007), pmphlt £1.50 An amusing - though certainly not intended as such - example of the "I've got this wonderful, not to mention highly-prescribed, set of ideas of what is needed for a happy and peaceful world, and if only everyone else would do exactly as I say..." approach to humanity's problems. Plotting Peace: The Owl's Reply to Hawks and Doves, Ronald Higgins (Brassey's UK, 1990), hbk £6.50 The Causes of Wars, Michael Howard (Unwin Paperbacks, 1984), pbk £3.00 Science, Liberty abnd Peace, Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1947), hbk £4.00 Calls for decentralisation of power as a key part of using science and technology for peace and the benefit of society. Voices for Peace, (Ed) Anna Kiernan (Scribner, London, 2001), pbk £4.00 An anthology of pieces by many of the usual supects (but with one or two surprises too) produced as a response to the plane attacks in the USA in September 2001. The writings are intended to call for creative ways to end the chain of violence. The Concept of Peace, John MacQuarrie (SCM Press, 1973), hbk £5.00 The Economic and Moral Consequences of British Rearmament, William H Marwick (Friends' Peace Committee, London, 1951), pmphlt £3.50 This is the "Peace News Pamphlets" edition of the FPC original. The Knowledgeable State - Diplomacy, War and Technology since 1830, Maurice Pearton (Burnett Books, 1982), hbk £6.95 Peace (New Internationalist - Books to Go series, 2005), hbk £5.99 The Beauty Queen's Guide to World Peace - Money, Power and Mayhem in the Twenty-First Century, Dan Plesch (Politico's Publishing, 2004), pbk £8.99 An expert, and humourous, look at how to get peace in a generation. Though not an analysis which focuses much on the direct action aspects of campaigning. Peace on Earth: The Way Ahead, (Ed) Walter Stein (Sheed & Ward, 1966), pbk £4.00 On the Prevention of War, John Strachey (Macmillan, 1962), hbk £6.50 Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation in Africa, Bill Sutherland & Matt Meyer (Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, USA, 2000), pbk £13.99 The Heavy Dancers, EP Thompson (Merlin Press, 1985), pbk £3.50 The Heavy Dancers: Writings on War, Past and Future, EP Thompson (Pantheon Books, New York, 1985), pbk £3.00 The Promise of World Peace, The Universal House of Justice (OneWorld Publications, 1986), pbk £4.00 Issued by the Baha'i Faith. The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace, (Ed) Helen Ware (New Internationalist, 2006), pbk £6.99 Unintended War - Beyond Deterrence, Arthur Waskow (American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1962), pmphlt £5.00 Peace is the Way - A Guide to Pacifist Views and Actions, (Eds) Cyril Wright and Tony Auguarde (Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1990), pbk £6.95 Produced for the Peace Pledge Union, it includes a series of essays on the relationship of pacifism to many other issues, as well as chapters on pacifist actions, pacifist alternatives, pacifist organisations, and so on. A comprehensive introduction. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, Howard Zinn (City Lights Books, San Francisco, USA, 2007), pbk £14.99 A new collection of essays by a fine anti-militarist writer, dealing perceptively with political struggle in the face of the situation in the USA (and that country's role in the world) in the last few years. Howard Zinn on War, Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press, New York, USa, 2001), pbk £8.99 A selection of writings by one of the USA's great radical historians: "...the great challenge of our time is how to achieve justive, with struggle, but without war."