Approaches to peace : a reader in peace studies / edited by David P. Barash.

Incluye bibliografía.

_ pt. 1. Approaches to war. Why war? / Sigmund Freud -- On aggression / Konrad Z. Lorenz -- Warfare is only an invention - not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead -- War is a force that gives us meaning / Chris Hedges -- War and other essays / William Graham Sumner -- Victims of groupthink / Irving Janis -- Causes of war / Michael Howard -- Structural theory of imperialism / Johan Galtung -- National images and international systems / Kenneth Boulding -- Glamorized nationalism : some examples in poetry -- Redefining security : the new global schisms / Michael T. Klare.

_ pt. 2. Building ´negative peace.´ The moral equivalent of war / William James -- Getting to yes / Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton -- Disarmament demands GRIT / Charles Osgood -- Ten nuclear myths / David Krieger and Angela McCrackien -- A world free of nuclear weapons / George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger and Sam Nunn -- Powerful peace / Jonathan Schell -- Finding the future : the role of economic conversion in shaping the twenty-first century / Lloyd J. Dumas -- International law / David P. Barash -- Insider´s guide to the UN / Linda Fasulo.

_ pt. 3. Responding to terrorism. Terrorism past and present / RAND Corporation -- The clash of civilizations / Samuel P. Huntington -- Terrorism : theirs and ours / Eqbal Ahmad -- Defining a just war / Richard Falk -- Dying to win : the strategic logic of suicide terrorism / Robert Pape -- Terror : the neglected but inescapable core of terrorism / Charles P. Webel.

_ pt. 4. Building ´positive peace.´ The land ethic / Aldo Leopold -- Nobel Prize acceptance speech / Al Gore -- Pedagogy of the oppressed / P. Freire -- Global economic solidarity / Jeffrey Sachs -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Human rights / David P. Barash.

_ pt. 5. Nonviolence. Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby / Leo Tolstoy -- Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Neither victims nor executioners / Albert Camus -- Ahimsa, or the way of nonviolence / Mohandas Gandhi -- Civilian resistance as a national defense / Gene Sharp.

_ pt. 6. Religious inspiration. Hinduism : the Bhagavad Gita -- Buddhism : being peace / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Taoism : Tao De Ching -- Judaism : the Old Testament -- Christianity : the New Testament -- Islam : the meaning of jihad / Ali Gomaa -- Holy disobedience / A.J. Muste -- A devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann / Thomas Merton.

_ pt. 7. Peace movements, transformation, and the future. Building utopias in history / Elise Boulding -- On humane governance / Richard Falk -- Sexism and the war system / Betty Reardon -- Human approach to world peace / Dalai Lama -- Empire v. democracy : why nemesis is at our door / Chalmers Johnson -- No future without forgiveness / Desmond Tutu -- Antiwar activists, where are you? / Victoria Bonney -- A few poetic visions.