Global Solutions to Violence Curriculum Resource List

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Peace Makers and Nonviolence

 

General References

Center for Teaching Peace

4501 Van Ness Street, NW

Washington DC , 20016

http://www.salsa.net/peace/conv/index.html

 

Teaching Peace, A Guide for the Classroom and Everyday Life

Leah Wells

Santa Barbara : Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 2003.

 

 

Unit 1: Philosophy of Nonviolence

Better World Handbook: From Good Intentions to Everyday Actions

Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler & Brett Johnson

British Columbia , Canada : New Society, 2001.

 

Ethics for the New Millennium

Dalai Lama

New York : Riverhead Books, 1999.

 

Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age

David Krieger & Daisaku Ikeda

Santa Monica , CA : Middleway Press, 2002.

 

Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace

Edited by Howard Zinn

Boston : Beacon Press, 2002.

One Makes the Difference

Julia Butterfly Hill

San Francisco : Harper, 2002.

 

Respecting Our Differences: A Guide to Getting Along in a Changing World

Lynn Duvall

Minneapolis : Free Spirit Publishing Inc., 1994.

No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine

Brooks Brown & Rob Merritt

New York : Lantern Books, 2002.

 

Free the Children

Craig Keilburger

New York : HarperCollins, 1998.

 

Unit 2: Prominent Peacemakers

Lesson 1: Gandhi

Gandhi's Autobiography

Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi, fwd by Sissela Bok

Washington , D.C. : Public Affairs Press, 1948.

Gandhi

David Arnold

New York : Longman, 2001.

 

Gandhi's Passion

Stanley Wolpert

New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

Autobiography: My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas Gandhi

Washington , D.C. : Public Affairs Press, 1954.

 

Mahatma Gandhi: His Life & Ideas

Charles Andrews

Delhi : Anmol Publications, 1987.

 

Lesson 2: Dorothy Day

The Long Loneliness

Dorothy Day

New York : Harper, 1952.

Dorothy Day:Portraits by Those Who Knew Her

Rosalie Riegle

New York : Orbis, 2003.

 

Lesson 3: Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired A Nation

Drew Hansen

New York : Ecco/HarperCollins, 2003.

I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.

Michael Eric Dyson

New York : Free Press, 2000.

To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America 1955-1968

Stewart Burns

New York : HarperCollins, 2004.

 

Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

David Garrow

New York : W. Morrow, 1986.

Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Ed., Clayborne Carson

New York : Intellectual Properties Management Inc., 1998.

  

Lesson 4: Mkhuseli Jack

Film: "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict"

New York : St. Martin 's Press, 2000.

 

 

Lesson 5: Alice Paul

Two Paths to Equality: Alice Paul and Ethel Rosenberg

Amy Butler

Albany , NY : State University of New York Press, 2002.

From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Women's

Party

Christine Lunardini

New York : New York University Press, 1986.

 

 

Lesson 6: César Chávez

Words of César Chávez

César Chávez

College Station , TX : Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

Moral Vision of César Chávez

Frederick Jo Dalton

New York : Orbis, 2003.

César Chávez: Labor Leader

Maria Cedeno

Brookfield , CT : Millbrook Press, 1993.

César Chávez: A Struggle for Justice

Richard Griswold Del Castillo

Houston : Arte Publico Press, 2002.

 

César Chávez: A Triumph of Spirit

Richard Castillo

Norman , OK : University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

 

 

Human Face of Poverty

 

General References

If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People (children's picture book but worth the read!)

David Smith and Shelagh Armstrong

New York : Kids Can Press, 2002.

 

Material World: A Global Family Portrait

Peter Menzel

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1994.

 

New Rulers of the World

John Pilger

New York : Verso, 2002.

 

No Nonsense Guides

Guides to Globalization, the Arms Trade, Indigenous Peoples, Fair Trade and International

Development

New York : Verso.

 

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Kevin Bales

Berkeley , CA : University of California Press, 1999.

 

Corporation Nation

Charles Derber

New York : St Martin 's Press, 2000.

 

People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

New York : HarperCollins, 1980.

 

Understanding Globalization: the Social Consequences of Political, Economic and Environmental Change

Robert Schneffer

Lanham , MD : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

 

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana Shiva

Cambridge , MA : South End Press, 2000.

 

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit

Vandana Shiva

Cambridge , MA : South End Press, 2002.

 

Grand Central Winter

Lee Stringer

New York : Seven Stories Press, 1998.

Global Inc: An Atlas of the Multinational Corporations

Medard Gabel & Henry Brener

New York : New Press, 2003.

 

 

Lesson 3: Free Trade

Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affects our Lives, Work and Environment

Ed., John Cavanaugh

Toronto : Between The Lines, 1992.

No Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade

New York : Verso, 2001.

No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty

New York : Verso.

 

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

Naomi Klein

Picador: New York , 2002.

No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs

Naomi Klein

Picador: New York , 2002.

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Barbara Ehrenreich

New York : Owl Books, 2002.

Democratizing the Global Economy: The Battle Against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

Kevin Danaher

Monroe , ME : Common Courage Press, 2001.

Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire

Chalmers Johnson

New York : Metropolitan Books, 2000.

Working Poor: Invisible in America

David Shipler

New York : Knopf, 2004.

Unequal Protection: the Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights

Thomas Hartmann

New York : Rodale Books, 2002.

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

Kevin Phillips

New York : Broadway Books, 2003.

 

The Free Trade Agreement Between the U.S. and Central America

Raúl Moreno

Sinti Techan Network, Hemispheric Social Alliance and American Friends Service Committee.

Managua : Ediciones Educativas.

 

 

Lesson 4: NAFTA

Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the US/Mexico Border

David Bacon

Berkeley , CA : University of California Press, 2004.

 Child Labour

Kaye Stearman

Chicago : Heinemann/Raintree, 2003.

One World: The Ethics of Globalization

Peter Singer

New Haven , CT : Yale University Press, 2002.

Holy Water From the West

K.R.Ranjith

Thrissur: Altermedia, 2004.

Globalization and Its Discontents

Joseph Stiglitz

New York : W.W. Norton, 2002.

 

Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America 's Poor

Paul Wright

New York : Routledge, 2003.

 Ending Poverty as We Know it

William Quigley

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.

 Free the Children: A Young Man's Personal Crusade Against Child Labor

Craig Keilburger

New York : HarperCollins, 1998.

 Working Poor: Invisible in America

David Shipler

New York : Knopf, 2004.

 

 Lesson 6: Immigration

A Better World Is Possible! Alternatives to Economic Globalization

Report by the Alternatives Committee of The International Forum on Globalization (Spring 2002).

 

Immigration: A Civil Rights Issue for the Americas

Ed. Susanne Jonas and Suzie Dod Thomas

Wilmington , DE : Scholarly Resources Inc., 1999.

 

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Free Trade

Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, Nolan J. Malone

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Beyond Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era

Elizabeth G. Ferris

Geneva : WCC Publications, 1993.

 

Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Ruben Martinez

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2001.

 

 

Links between Economic and Military Violence

 

General References

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Amy Chua

New York : Doubleday, 2001.

 

Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy

Noreena Hertz

New York : Free Press, 2001.

 A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Powers

New York : Perennial, 2003.

 Private Planet: A Corporate Plunder and the Fightback

David Cromwell

Charlbury: Jon Carpenter, 2001.

 Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of the Commonwealth

David Bollier

New York : Routledge, 2002.

 Power Politics

Arundhati Roy

Cambridge , MA : South End Press, 2001.

 The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile

Arundhati Roy

Cambridge , MA : South End Press, 2004.

 The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

Richard Heinberg

Gabriola , BC : New Society Publishers, 2003.

 A Better World Is Possible! Alternatives to Economic Globalization

Report by the Alternatives Committee of The International Forum on Globalization (Spring 2002).

 Economic Warfare: Sanctions, Embargo Busting and their Human Cost

RT Naylor

Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2001.

 Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance in Cuba

Fernando Funes

Oakland , CA : Food First, 2002.

 Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

Chalmers Johnson

New York : Owl Books, 2004.

 

Lesson 1: Guatemala

Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust in Central America

Thomas R. Melville

Xlibris Corporation, 2005.

The School of Americas : Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas

Lesley Gill

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope

Beatriz Manz

Berkeley , CA : University of California Press, 2004.

The Battle for Guatemala : Rebels, Death Squads, and U.S. Power

Susanne Jonas

Boulder , CO : Westview Press, 1991.

Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process

Susanne Jonas

Boulder , CO : Westview Press, 2000.

 

 

Lesson 2: Colombia

Building from the Inside Out: Peace Initiatives in War-torn Colombia

Gretchen Alther, John Lindsay-Poland, Sarah Weintraub

American Friends Service Committee; November 2004.

 

Colombia : Facts and War Timeline 1948-2004

Latin America & Caribbean Program – Peacebuilding Unit

American Friends Service Committee; September 2004.

 

Longing for Home: Return of Land to Colombia 's Internally Displaced Population

Lisa Haugaard

Washington , D.C. : LAWGEF, September 2006.

 

 

 
     
     
   
 
 
       
         

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