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Suggested book and video list
Books
- European Security in the Post-Soviet Age: The Case
Against NATO By Graham Hallett
William Sessions, York, 2007, 302pp. ISBN: 978-1085072-358-5
www.caseagainstnato.co.uk - "In pursuit of Alternatives to War"
Owen Hardwicke
Available mid March; it is really a compilation of useful texts as well as a chronicle of Peacemaking campaigning in Wrexham.
ISBN 1-84494-024-1 - The Unconquerable World?
Jonathan Schell
Allen Lane 2003.
ISBN 0-7139-9766-4
billed by the New York Times as “Perhaps the most impressive argument ever made that there exists a viable and desirable alternative to a continued reliance on war” . - War No More
Professor Robert Hinde and Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat
ISBN 0-7453-2191-7 Pluto Press
See offer and review - Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty First
Century.
Paul Rogers
Pluto Press, 2000, 164pp. ISBN 0-7453-1679-4 - Ending War: The Force of Reason.
Editors Maxwell Bruce and Tom Milne
MacMillan Press, 1999, 179pp. ISBN 0-333-77482-5 - War: A Cruel Necessity? - The Bases of
Institutionalized Violence.
Editors Robert Hinde and Helen Watson
Tauris Publishers, 1995, 260pp. ISBN 1-85043-824-2 - Is Peace Possible?
Kathleen Lonsdale
Penguin Special, 1957, 127pp - Common Security: A Programme for Disarmament (The
Palme Commission Report).
Pan Books, 1982, 202pp. ISBN 0-330-26846-5 - Alternatives to Violence: Conflict Resolution and
the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes.
Keith Suter
Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, Australia, 1986, 151pp.
ISBN 0-909506-15-9 - The Abolition of War (Essays and Papers of a World
Federalist).
Max Habicht
Club Humaniste, Paris, 1987, 397pp. - Peace is Possible (31 Essays).
Editor Fredrik Heffermehl
International Peace Bureau, 2000, 152pp. ISBN 92-9006-01-1
(£5 from MAW, 11 Venetia Road, London, N4 1EJ) - Time to Abolish War - A Youth Agenda for Peace and
Justice.
Hague Appeal for Peace, 2000, 59pp
(£2.50 from MAW, 11 Venetia Road, London, N4 1EJ) - Peace by Peaceful Means.
Johan Galtung
Saga Publications, 1996. ISBN 08039-75104 - Another Way.
Adam Curle and Jon Carpenter
Oxford, 1995. ISBN 897766-22-X - Peace: The Plain Man’s Guide to War
Prevention.
Hugh Hanning
Woolf, London, 1988. ISBN 0-900821-92-2 - The Causes of War and Other Essays.
Michael Howard
Unwin (now Harper Collins), 1983, 291pp. ISBN 004 9400 738 - There are Alternatives: Four Roads to Peace and
Security.
Johan Galtung
Spokesman, 1984. ISBN 0-85124-393-2 - Disarmament: The Unanswerable Case.
John Ferguson
Heineman, 1982. ISBN 43425706-0 - A Step by Step Approach to World Peace, Region by
Region.
Ted Dunn
Gooday Publications, 1988, 119pp. ISBN 1-870568-11-7 - Why War?
C.E.M. Joad
Penguin Books, 1939, 247pp - War Prevention Works - 50 Stories of People
Resolving Conflict.
Oxford Research Group, 2001, 126pp. ISBN 0-9511361-6-X - Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of
People Power in the Twentieth Century.
Peter Ackerman
1994 - Going to Court Not War.
Beverley Chipp. 2001, 29pp. ISBN 0-9537910-0-9
(£1.50 from Beverley Chipp, 10 Chenies Street Chambers, 9 Chenies Street, London, WC1E 7ET) - From War to Peace.
Lessons learned from achievements and failures in peace agreements over the past decade: a strategy for peace process optimisation.
(£12.50 sterling cheque to International Peace Bureau, 41 rue de Zurich, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland.) - Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its
Attempt to End War.
Margaret MacMillan. (John Murray 2001)
Videos from Concord Video and Film Council
22 Hines Road,
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9BG Tel: 01473 726012
- Attention
(12 minutes).
Prize winning Czech film on the history of war. Animated cartoon. - Boom
(11 minutes).
Prize winning Czech/UN animated cartoon. History of war from cavemen to disaster. - The Big If
(10 minutes).
Czech cartoon on the relationship between war and poverty.
(‘Boom’ and ‘The Big If’ come on the same tape) - Life on Earth Perhaps
(29 minutes).
Compares the behaviour of people with the behaviour of nations. It demonstrates how war has changed over the years, and reminds us that the development of military technology has made war too damaging to be considered a viable military option. - Neighbours
(9 minutes).
A famous film parable. Beginning with laughter as two men argue about a flower growing on the boundary between their gardens, the tension develops to horror and death. - Nonviolence in Action
(30 minutes).
Two tapes which explore the nature of nonviolence in many contexts, from quarrels between neighbours to long-term political strategy.
Dear Reader,
Additions (and corrections) to
this list would be very welcome. The aim is not to report stories about the
horror and cost of war, but to spread information about steps towards its
abolition.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Bethan Hillas
MAW
Committee
