New Publications
Gabriele Kraus-Gruner, Maike Rönnau, Klaus Fröhlich-Gildhoff, Eva Füssinger (Eds): Publication can be ordered at NVE project office e-mail: office@nv-e.org or IFOR e-mail: office@ifor.org New Books
MIR France has produced a book which is meant to be a contribution for their work on reconciliation. Thirteen of the 15 authors are members of FOR, Hildegard Goss-Mayr has written the preface. It is available at the MIR France office (17 euros + mailing) or on the amazon.fr website. See full size image and front/back of this book. Auteur : Mouvement international de la Réconciliation, branche française
Read the foreword by Mairead Maguire, the preface by Richard Deats, and click here for more information on Richard Deats. “Marked for Life: The Life of Hildegard GossMayr” is available at FOR USA (bookstore@forusa.org), $13.95 plus postage; or order online at The FOR Online Store. More BooksActive Nonviolence: A Way of Life, A Strategy for Change, edited
by Richard Deats, Shelley Douglass and Melinda Moore. From Fellowship
of Reconciliation, Box 271, Nyack, New York 10960, USA Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living, by Laura Slattery, Ken Butigan,
Veronica Pelicaric and Ken Preston-Pile, Pace e Bene, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation, edited by Raymond Helmick and Rodney Petersen. Templeton Foundation Press, London. 2001 Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation in Africa, by Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer, Africa World Press, USA/Eritrea, 2000. Male Roles, Masculinities and Violence: A Culture of Peace Perspective,
by Connell, R.W., co-edited with Ingeborg Breines and Ingrid Eide.
Paris, UNESCO Publishing, 2000. Partners in Change: Working with Men to End Gender-Based Violence, by United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2002. Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action (2002, 264 pages)
by Diana Francis. Also her most recent work Rethinking War and Peace
(2004, 177 pages) from Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London N6
5AA, UK.
The Politics of Nonviolent Action (three volumes) by Gene Sharp(also
Waging Nonviolent Struggle, web: www.wagingnonviolentstruggle.com)
from The Albert Einstein Institution, 427 Newbury Street, Boston,
MA 02115, USA Reweaving the Web of Life: Feminism and Nonviolence, edited by Pam McAllister, 1982, New Society Publishers, USA. Sexism and the War System, by Betty Reardon (1993, 122 pages) from
War Resisters League, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012, USA.
Towards a women’s agenda for a culture of peac, edited by Ingeborg Breines, Dorota Gierycz and Betty Reardon. UNESCO Publishing, France, 1999. Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa: Jesus’s Third Way by Walter Wink, Philadelphia, New Society Publishers, 1987. War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the war system and vice versa, by Joshua Goldstein, Joshua Cambridge University Press, 2001. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr., New York, Bantam Books 1967. Also Strength to Love (New York, Harper and Row, 1967) and The Trumpet of Conscience (New York, Harper and Row, 1958). You Can’t Kill the Spirit (1988) and This River of Courage: Generations of Women’s Resistance and Action (1991, New Society Publishers, USA) by Pam McAllister, document over three hundred nonviolent actions by women throughout history and list others books on women and nonviolence. For and About ChildrenA Group of One by Rachna Gilmore. A Canadian girl learns about the Independence movement of India. (ages 12 and older) Boys will be boys: Breaking the link between masculinity and violence, by Myriam Miedzian, 2002. Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators and Parents by Allan Creighton, with Paul Kivel (168 pages, 1992) Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Doreen Rappaport (2001, 30 pages). Picture book on King’s life for young children, with reference list of other children’s books on King. ¡Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A. by Diana Cohn (31 pages, 2002) Bilingual (Spanish and English) picture book about a boy and his mother who leads a strike. (ages 4-8)
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Peace ActivistsARCHIVES JEAN GOSS – HILDEGARD GOSS-MAYR Hildegard Goss Mayr is one of the world’s leading experts on non-violence. She is the honorary president of International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the world’s oldest organization dedicated to the principles of non-violent resistance. The efforts and training of Hildegard Goss Mayr, along with those of her husband Jean Goss, were a major factor in the successful and peaceful overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. We are now honored to present this online directory of the works of Jean Goss and Hildegard Goss-Mayr. For access to and use of these archives, please contact: c/o Internationaler Versöhnungsbund, VideosA Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (two cassettes,
three hours) is an award-winning documentary on successful nonviolent
campaigns in the 20th century from South Africa, Poland, Chile,
India, Denmark, the USA and the Philippines. Nonviolence for a Change (25 minutes, VHS) with viewers guide.
Nonviolence for the Brave: Gender-sensitive Nonviolence Training
(VHS or DVD) with viewers guide. Also available (VHS or DVD) are
four 20-minute documentaries of women peacemakers from Africa (in
French or English), Asia, Europe and the Pacific (in Spanish or
French). The Wajir Story: Conflict Transformation in Kenya, also four other
videos: Only Through Dialogue: the Somali way to peace; Gulu: the
struggle for peace; Pulling Together: community policing in the
new South Africa; and Practice to Policy: a film about peace building
in Africa (VHS) from Responding to Conflict, Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (80
minutes) available from Media Education Foundation, 26 Center Street,
Let’s Talk Men, four videos from Bangladesh, India, Nepal
and Pakistan in the South Asia Exploring Masculinities series. EKTA,
No. 6 Duraisamy Nagar, Ist Cross St., Madurai, 625010, Tamil Nadu,
India. Nonviolent VideogamesPeaceMaker by ImpactGames A Force More Powerful by the Int'l Center on Non-violent
Conflict Web ResourcesThe American Friends Service Committee offers up-to-date information
on nonviolent campaigns in the USA and elsewhere; operates a video
lending library with videos on nonviolence. The Buddhist Peace Fellowship offers information and training on socially engaged Buddhism, and support to Buddhist conscientious objectors: www.bpf.org The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of organizations working for the abolition of war. Coordinates the Global Campaign for Peace Education: www.haguepeace.org Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action is on UN Resolution 1325 and ways women can use it to further peace and women’s human rights: www.womenwagingpeace.net The Jewish Peace Fellowship offers information and training on
ala aspects of Jewish peace building, including support to Jewish
conscientious objectors: www.jewishpeacefellowship.org The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works towards the rapid and full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (in English, French or Spanish). Web: www.peacewomen.org A Toolkit for Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Gender Based Violence, by the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Web: www.endabuse.org/toolkit The Turning the Tide website has information sheets on nonviolence, planning a campaign, power, how change happens and consensus decision-making. www.turning-the-tide.org The War Resisters International website contains news and resources on nonviolence around the world: www.wri-irg.org (English, German, French and Spanish). The Women’s Portal of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) includes news, campaigns and background information on the impact of guns on women’s lives: www.iansa.org/women The United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) publishes materials on women and peacebuilding (see especially the Independent Experts Assessment on Women, War and Peace). Web: www.unifem.org See UNIFEM’s portal on women, war and peace: www.womenwarpeace.org For more books, training manuals and videos on nonviolence, in English, and for information on nonviolence trainings, contact: Fellowship of Reconciliation at www.forusa.org and War Resisters League at www.warresisters.org
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Violence Prevention in the Educational Institution "Kindergarten"

People Building Peace II: Successful Stories of Civil Society by
Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk, Marte Hellema and Juliette Verhoeven
(694 pages, 2005) and People Building Peace: 35 Inspiring Stories
from Around the World (410 pages, 1999) from the European Centre
for Conflict Prevention, the Netherlands