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We are seeing injustices caused by war and occupation unfold in real-time via social media, and we are speaking out in our millions against these horrors. Yet, from Gaza to Ukraine, the bombs continue to fall. We must understand why this is happening if we are to end it. Monstrous Anger of the Guns lays bare the dark and deceitful world of the global arms trade, which, often funded in our name, is a business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives. Leading activists and campaigners connect the dots, showing how notions of citizenship, democracy and trust in governments are misguided, and how we can fight back by building mass movements, using direct action and legal justice to end the flow of weapons and the environmental and human devastation they bring.

Chapter 1. Growing Up in Vienna (1949-1967) -- Chapter 2. Experiencing the Unfolding of the Peace Process (1967-1990) -- Chapter 3. From the Madrid Conference to the Conclusion of the First Oslo Accord (1991-1993) -- Chapter 4. The Oslo Process of Trial and Error Unfolds (1993-1999) -- Chapter 5. From Hope Under Benjamin Netanyahu to Disaster Under Ehud Barak (1999-2001) -- Chapter 6. The Need to Rethink Possible Action (2001) -- Chapter 7. Maintaining the Struggle for a Two-State Solution under Sharon and Olmert (2001-2009) -- Chapter 8. The Netanyahu-Obama Years (2009-2017) -- Chapter 9. Seeking a Way Forward: Brainstorming in Norway and the Conclusions of the Abraham Accords (2017-2021) -- Chapter 10. Netanyahu's Election Victory of 2022: The Challenge Ahead -- Chapter 11. My Suggested Conclusions for Future Peace Activists.

MICHAEL THUMANNS BESTSELLER MIT EINEM NEUEN KAPITEL ZUR AKTUELLEN LAGE In seinem SPIEGEL-Bestseller zeichnet der Moskau-Korrespondent der ZEIT Michael Thumann auf atemberaubende Weise den Absturz Russlands in eine zunehmend totalitäre Diktatur und den Weg in Putins imperialistischen Krieg aus nächster Nähe nach. Das Motiv des Diktators und seiner Getreuen: Revanche zu nehmen für die demokratische Öffnung nach 1991 und die vermeintliche Demütigung durch den Westen. Putins Herrschaft radikalisiert sich weiter. Es ist das bedrohlichste Regime der Welt. Die grundlegend überarbeitete und aktualisierte Taschenbuchausgabe enthält bislang unveröffentlichte Einsichten über Putins Verhältnis zu den radikalen Nationalisten im eigenen Land und die Stabilität seiner Herrschaft nach dem Aufstand und dem Tod seines Widersachers Prigoschin. "Ein großartiges Buch zur jüngsten Zeitgeschichte - glänzend geschrieben." ndr Kultur 40000 verkaufte Exemplare der HC-Ausgabe Mit einem neuen Kapitel zur Stabilität von Putins Herrschaft nach dem Aufstand und Tod Prigoschins Michael Thumann ist Moskau-Korrespondent der ZEIT und einer der besten Russlandkenner "Ein scharfsinniges, ein horizonterweiterndes Buch." Denis Scheck

In this book, Joan C. Lopez and Beth Fisher-Yoshida offer an alternative narrative of youth and peacebuilding, to the popular one about youth and violence. Using testimonies of current and past youth community leaders in Colombia, Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida tell a different story of hope, creativity, and unrelenting resilience. They bring attention to the ways peaceful responses to violent conflicts are formed in communities and how these have the potential to inform processes of peacebuilding in areas with similar social and historical characteristics. Focused on action-oriented initiatives, the book concludes by proposing ways in which social change can continue to happen and how we might be able to foster it. Lopez and Fisher-Yoshida specifically explore ways in which we can continue to support efforts and create new initiatives for other youth. Some of these ideas include doing more capacity building, fostering more networking and knowledge transfers, identifying ways of increasing social entrepreneurship, and building more effective youth leaders. Narratives of Peacebuilding in Colombia fills an important gap in the literature on the characteristics of peacebuilding.

"Although it was characterized by simmering international tensions, the early Cold War also witnessed dramatic instances of reconciliation between states, as former antagonists rebuilt political, economic, and cultural ties in the wake of the Second World War. And such efforts were not confined to official diplomacy, as this study of postwar rapprochement between Poland and West Germany demonstrates. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Peace at All Costs follows Polish and German non-state activists who attempted to establish dialogue in the 1950s and 1960s, showing how they achieved modest successes and media attention at the cost of more nuanced approaches to their national histories and identities."--

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika gelten als das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten und nehmen zugleich im Global Peace Index einen der hinteren Ränge ein. Wie ist das möglich? Gert Hellerich beleuchtet die von Gewalt im Inneren sowie nach außen hin geprägte Realität des Landes. Er zeichnet ein düsteres Panorama von weithin präsenter Kriminalität und Alltagsgewalt, der Beteiligung der USA an internationalen kriegerischen Konflikten und einer damit einhergehenden ausgeprägten Militarisierung von Staat und Gesellschaft. In einem Plädoyer gegen die zerstörerische Macht der Gewalt stellt Hellerich Wege vor, die in eine Zukunft gewaltfreier Konfliktlösungen weisen. Vielversprechende Ansatzpunkte dafür sieht er in der religiösen und kulturellen Verwurzelung der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft im Christentum und in der Friedfertigkeit Jesu

Non-governmental organizations and militaries are notorious for their difficult relationship. The military is mostly understood through the prism of its lethality, and NGOs are perceived as idealistic do-gooders, ready to save the world. Stanislava P. Mladenova traces the changing character of interaction between both of these entities. She argues that the boundaries which once separated their functions are fading. Fragile, ungoverned, and insecure spaces need both of what these actors can provide. As a result, they have drawn closer together, and have everything at their disposal for a collaborative, efficient, and productive civil-military partnership, which is contrary to what many observers and leaders in the conflict and development space have long believed. Mladenova makes a convincing case that it is high time both sets of actors put aside their differences, bringing to light a fast-changing landscape of vicious poverty, insecurity, and climate change, where the conventional way of doing business will become the exception, not the rule.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Conceptualizing Peace and War -- Chapter 2. Representing and Feeling Conflict: Lessons for Building Peace -- Chapter 3. Religions and Violence -- Chapter 4. The Notion of Unity in Russian Thought and Its Implications for Peaceful Coexistence -- Chapter 5. Peace with the Future. How Narratives of the Anthropocene Form Relational Concepts of Peace -- Chapter 6. Hermeneutical and Exegetical Approaches to the Concepts of Peace and Violence in the Qur'ān -- Chapter 7. War and Peace Through a Feminist Lens: The Need for a Gender-Responsive, Humanitarian Approach for 'Conflict Resolutions' and 'Peace Processes' -- Part II: Examples of War and Peacebuilding -- Chapter 8. New Approaches within the Peace Mission in Africa Using the Example of Uganda -- Chapter 9. Mohammed Merah and the Birth of Post-Modern Jihadism: The Genesis of Merah's Jihadist Extremism as a Rupture and its Effects on the French Society -- Chapter 10. War and Peace in the Understanding of Turkish Politics -- Chapter 11. Victim or Perpetrator? Child Returnees´ Perceptions of Peace and War -- Chapter 12. Women, Minors and Families Affiliated with Terrorist Groups: Reintegration and Peacebuilding in Morocco -- Chapter 13. The Meaning of War and Peace in Jihadist Online Radicalization -- Chapter 14. 'I Need You As My Foe'. A Practical Perspective on the Need of Having Enemies in the Process of Radicalization.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Unsettled Reflections from Golden Valley, Myanmar -- Chapter 2: Promoting Peace or Pushing Norms? Understanding Normative Agency in Mediation Processes -- Chapter 3: New Kids on the Block: The Rise of NGO Mediators in Mediation and Peacemaking -- Chapter 4: The Promised Land of Inclusive Peace: NGO Mediators as Norm Promoters of Inclusion -- Chapter 5: What's in a Norm? What Normative Frameworks in Myanmar Reveal about Inclusivity -- Chapter 6: Chronicles of a Norm for Sale: Norm Entrepreneurship in the Myanmar NCA Negotiations -- Chapter 7: "The Trouble with Inclusivity": How Promoting Inclusive Peace led to an Exclusive Outcome -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Life and Death of Inclusive Peace in Myanmar.