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Weekly Post – 9/27/22. “Putting It All Together: Knowledge as One of the Foundations of the Discipline and Practice of Peace”

The Building Peace Initiative Reading List

Creating True Peace: Ending the Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 2nd Edition.  Marshall Rosenberg

Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct.  P.M. Forni

Peace and Conflict Studies.   David Barash and Charles Webel

The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference. Ellis, Jones, Haenfler, Ross and Johnson, Brett,

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.  Karen Armstrong

World’s In Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World.  Dalai Lama

Gandhi: On Nonviolence.  Thomas Merton

The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace.  Introduction by Howard Zinn

I’d Rather Teach Peace. Colman McCarthy

No Future Without Forgiveness.  Desmond  Tutu

Forgiveness and Revenge.  Trudy Govier

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. Simon Wisenthal

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. 

Tracey Kidder

Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War.  Sister Chan Khong

At Hell’s Gate: A Soldiers Journey from War to Peace.  Claude Anshin Thomas

Slaughterhouse-Five.  Kurt Vonnegut Jr

*I have included the three history selections because they provide a lot of  information which will be important when it comes to clearing up misperceptions many people have.  They are challenging reads especially Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas.  I would read them in the order listed.

*1. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.  Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall  

*2. A People’s History of the United States.  Howard Zinn

*3. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas.  David  Cortright,

There are many life stories to read:  Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Wangari Maathai, Rigoberta Menchu, Nelson Mandela, Nadia Murad and so may more to inspire us in those moments when we need it.