Resources

New Publications

Violence Prevention in the Educational Institution "Kindergarten" – Pre-Study – Present Approaches and Development Possibilities, 2008, FEL Verlag Freiburg i.B., Germany

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

L’ESPERANCE INSOUMISE – Les religions, moteurs de la réconciliation sociale et politique
by Mouvement international de la Réconciliation, branche française

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
Editeur : Nouvelle Cité, mars 2009
160 pages ; 17 euros
Préface: Hildegard Goss-Mayr
Introduction: Maria Biedrawa

Marked for Life: The Story of Hildegard Goss-Mayr
by Richard Deats

“In reading Richard Deats’ compelling account of the truly astonishing life of Hildegard Goss-Mayr, I am filled with a sense of the magnificence of the human person when transformed into compassion and love through the gifts of the Holy Spirit. No task is too much, no place too far to travel, no one in whom the person of God is not seen and served, such is the kindness and generosity of Hildegard Goss-Mayr, and we are all touched and grateful for such a soul force in our world.”  - Mairead Corrigan Maguire,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1976

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 Books

Active 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
Tel. +1 845 358 4601
Fax +1 845 358 4924
Email: FOR@forusa.org
Web: www.forusa.org

Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living, by Laura Slattery, Ken Butigan, Veronica Pelicaric and Ken Preston-Pile, Pace e Bene,
2510 Harrison St., Oakland,
CA 94612 USA
Tel. +1 510 268 8765
Fax +1 510 268 8799
Email: pbcal@paceebene.org
Web: www.paceebene.org

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.
Web: www.unesco.org

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.
Email: Pluto@plutobooks.com
Web: www.plutobooks.com

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
Web: www.conflict-prevention.net

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
Tel. +1 617 247 4887
Fax +1 617 247 4035
Email: Einstein@igc.org
Web: www.aeinstein.org

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.
Email: wrl@warresisters.org
Web: www.warresisters.org

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 Children

A 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)

 

Peace Activists

ARCHIVES JEAN GOSS – HILDEGARD GOSS-MAYR
à Vienne en Autriche / in Wien, Österreich
The archives of Jean Goss and Hildegard Goss-Mayr were transferred to the office of FOR Austria on 1 September 2009. IFOR received a directory of these archives for peace activists, IFOR members and staff to draw upon.

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,
Österreichischer Zweig
Lederergasse 23/3/27, A 1080 Wien
Email: office@versoehungsbund.at

Videos

A 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.
Also available is Bringing Down a Dictator (57-minutes) on the nonviolent overthrow of the Milosevic regime in Serbia. Both VHS or DVD, available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and other languages.
Web: www.aforcemorepowerful.org

Nonviolence for a Change (25 minutes, VHS) with viewers guide.
Turning the Tide Programme,
Friends House, Euston Road,
London NW1 2BJ, UK
Tel . +44 (0)20 7663 1064
Fax +44 (0)20 7663 1049
Email: stevew@quaker.org.uk

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).
Women Peacemakers Program, Spoorstraat 38, 1815 BK Alkmaar, the Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)72 5123 014
Email: office@ifor.org
Web: www.ifor.org/WPP

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,
1046 Bristol Road,
Birmingham B29 6LJ, UK
Tel. +44 (0)121 415 5641
Fax +44 (0)121 415 4119
Email: enquirires@respond.org
Web: www.respond.org

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (80 minutes) available from Media Education Foundation, 26 Center Street,
Northampton, MA 01060 USA.
Tel. 800 897 0089 or +1 413 584 8500.
Web: www.mediaed.org
See also www.jacksonkatz.com

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.
Email: edu_ekta@sancharnet.in

Nonviolent Videogames

PeaceMaker by ImpactGames
PeaceMaker is a video game simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a tool aiming to promote a peaceful resolution among Israeli and Palestinian youths, as well as young adults worldwide. Created by two Israeli graduate students with the help of several Palestinian youth groups, Peacemaker is making history as the first game about the Middle East conflict. This one-person game allows the player to take the role of either the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President, then react to in-game events from diplomatic negotiations to military attacks, and interact with eight other political leaders and social groups in order to establish a stable resolution to the conflict before his or her term in office ends. www.peacemakergame.com

A Force More Powerful by the Int'l Center on Non-violent Conflict
A Force More Powerful - the Game of Nonviolent Strategy is the first and only interactive teaching tool in the field of nonviolent conflict. Developed by The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), media firm York Zimmerman Inc. and game designers at BreakAway Ltd., with ongoing input from the Serbian resistance leaders who helped overthrow Milosevic, the game is built on nonviolent strategies and tactics used successfully in various conflicts around the world. Featuring ten scenarios inspired by history, the game simulates nonviolent struggles to win freedom and secure human rights against dictators, occupiers, colonizers, and corrupt regimes, as well as campaigns for political and human rights for minorities and women. The game models real-world experience, allowing players to devise strategies, apply tactics and see the results. http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/game/

(Source:http://www.gamesforchange.org
/conference/2006/expo.asp)

Web Resources

The 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.
Web: www.afsc.org

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 Muslim Peace Fellowship offers information and training on Islam and nonviolence and support to Muslim conscientious objectors: www.mpfweb.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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