Give Peace a Chance: Preventing Mass Violence

ISBN-13: 9781612051390 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str.

M.D. David A. Hamburg; Eric Hamburg

Opis

In Give Peace a Chance, the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years. Including lessons from personal experience, pithy quotes from interviews with international dignitaries, and the insights of a documentary sensibility, this book reflects upon striking moments in peace history and inflects them with the perspective of preventive medicine. From Jane Goodall's rainforest research station, to a hostage taking in Eastern Africa, to the Reagan-Gorbachev post-summit epiphany in Reykjavik, the Hamburgs take us there. They then distill the wisdom of these and many other encounters into an essential "six pillars of prevention"-education, early action, democracy building, socioeconomic development, human rights, and arms control. These six pillars are essential not only to reflections upon the past, but to future prospects emerging from recent challenges to peace-the Arab Spring, the violent repression in Syria, and the brewing faceoff with Iran.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements An Invitation to Peace Chapter 1 Personal Experiences as Pathways to Peace Part I Pillars of Prevention Chapter 2 Education for Peace Chapter 3 Early Warning Chapter 4 Democracy and Peace Chapter 5 Development and Peace Chapter 6 Human Rights and Peace Chapter 7 Weapons against Peace Part II Who Can Do What for Peace? Chapter 8 The United States and Other Democracies Chapter 9 The United Nations Chapter 10 The European Union and Other Regional Organizations Chapter 11 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Chapter 12 Promising Changes in a Decade and a Generation Notes Recommended Readings Index About the Authors

O autorze

David A. Hamburg, Eric Hamburg