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Across the globe, there are more than 50 armed conflicts, many of which are being perpetrated in the name of religion. In these zones of violence, there are brave men and women who, motivated by their religious beliefs, are working to create and sustain peace and reconciliation. Yet their stories are unknown. This book explores the conflicts and the stories of 15 remarkable individuals identified and studied by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding from regions as far-flung as West Papua, Indonesia, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, El Salvador and South Africa. The book also captures important lessons learned when these peacemakers convened in Amman, Jordan for the 2004 Peacemakers in Action Retreat and discussed their best techniques and greatest obstacles in creating peace on the ground. Peacemakers in Action provides guidance to students of religion and future peacemakers.

Trouble-makers or truth-sayers? : the peculiar status of foreign correspondents in China / Martin Fackler -- The political roots of China's environmental degradation / Judith Shapiro -- Fueling China's capitalist transformation : the human cost / Timothy B. Weston -- Qigong, Falun Gong, and the body politic in contemporary China / David Ownby -- Narratives to live by : the century of humiliation and Chinese national identity today / Peter Hays Gries -- The Internet : a force to transform Chinese society? / Xiao Qiang -- The politics of filmmaking and movie watching / Sylvia Li-chün Lin -- Fictional China / Howard Goldblatt -- Of rice and meat : real Chinese food / Susan D. Blum -- Herding the masses : public opinion and democracy in today's China / Tong Lam -- Sex tourism and lure of the ethnic erotic in Southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Welcome to paradise! : a Sino-U.S. joint-venture project / Tim Oakes -- The new Chinese intellectual : globalized, disoriented, reoriented / Timothy Cheek -- Reporting China since the 1960s / John Gittings -- Afterword: China, the United States and the fragile planet / Lionel M. Jensen

Introduction and overview -- The international policy context -- My aim and rationale -- The structure of the book -- The theoretical landscape of knowledge transfer -- Theoretical portraits of the innovation process -- Theories of policy change and implementation -- Policy assumptions about triple helix partnerships -- The nature of knowledge: discourses in socio-cultural theory -- Innovation as collaboration and expansive learning -- The paradox of creative destruction -- Overview -- A natural history of my research methodology -- My methodological journey in the rough terrain of innovation -- My research design -- The UK case studies: high technology corridors (HTCs) -- The Japanese cases: textiles and photonics -- The US cases: Silicon Valley and sustainable energy innovation -- My method of data presentation -- Discussion of ethical and political issues -- Overview -- Reconstructing subject perspectives -- The complexity of subject positioning and identity -- Visualizing competing objects of activity -- Overview -- Horizontal expansion of the object by collaboration of experts -- Horizontal expansion of the object of activity -- How boundary objects bridge organizational cultures -- Vignette: samples and prototypes as boundary objects -- Vignette: management consultancy project in the UK -- Vignette: projects: connecting industry with art schools -- Vignette: collaborative projects to develop electronic tools -- Users and developers: consumers oriented innovation -- Vignette interacting with clients in the design process -- Vignette: Nuno collaborations with fashion designers -- Vignette: public-private sector partnership zero energy homes -- Vignette: collaboration between users and developers of photonics -- Vignette: how users transformed an outcome into a tool -- Overview -- Mediation between activity systems of unequal agency -- Vertical expansion of the object of activity -- The significance of power and hierarchical structures -- Collaborative projects as cycles of expansive learning -- Vignette: Nuno's sustained investment in collaboration -- Vignette: Hamamatsu photonics cluster -- Vignette: collaboration to create innovative stainless steel textiles -- Vignette: collaborative ICT research project -- Vignette: learning from a rapid prototyping project in the UK -- Vignette: learning from a collaborative visualization software project -- Crossing the Valley of Death -- Vignette: the role of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley -- Vignette: industry scanning and serious play: jellyfish fabric -- Vignette: metallic plating of textiles -- Vignette: collaboration on hydrogen fuel cells in California -- Overview -- The impact of complexity and power dynamics on organizational learning -- Complexity of partnerships as a constraint on learning -- Vignette: practical experience of large scale innovation -- Vignette: the impact of multivariate objects -- The importance of flexibility and autonomy -- Vignette: balancing power dynamics in an architecture project -- Vignette: how a mediator empowered a weak activity system -- Vignette: the unique nurturing environment in Silicon Valley -- Vignette: artistic goals and serious play -- Mediators as mini-maestros of networks -- Vignette: the capacity of designers to act as mini maestros -holograms -- Vignette: collaboration in the creation of eco textiles -- Vignette: combined impact of mediators and boundary objects: Novus -- Conscription devices and emotional commitment to the object -- Vignette: uniting communities in collaborative public interest research -- Vignette: employee creativity: the object of Google activity -- Vignette: collaboration between physicians and automotive designers -- Vignette: collaboration between defence industry and physicians -- Vignette: embedded projects within Medilink -- Overview -- Using evaluation as a tool for learning -- Variations in the style and purpose of evaluation -- How involvement in the process of evaluation supports learning -- Vignette: the victory narrative and reflective evaluation -- Vignette: sustaining coherent development with short term projects -- Vignette: conflict between the roles of animateur and auditor -- Vignette: bureaucracy: espoused and actual autonomy -- Vignette: the creative power of conflict: action on sustainable energy -- Overview -- Insights from the research findings -- Research question 1 -- Research question 2 -- Research question 3 -- Research question 4 -- Research question 5 -- A toolkit to support organizational learning -- Vractical ways to enhance innovation partnerships -- Diagnostic tools for innovation partnerships -- Conclusions -- Risks and limitations of the research -- Future development of expansive learning theory -- Bibliography.

Marks of the Chicana corpus : an intervention in the universality debate / Helena Maria Viramontes -- The new Latin nation : immigration and the Hispanic population of the United States / Alejandro Portes -- "Dime con quién hablas, y te diré quién eres" : linguistic (in)security and Latina/o unity / Ana Celia Zentella -- (Re)constructing Latinidad : the challenge of Latina/o studies / Frances R. Aparicio -- The name game : locating Latinas/os, Latins, and Latin Americans in the US popular music landscape / Deborah Pacini Hernández -- Cuando Dios y usted quiere : Latina/o studies between religious powers and social thought / David Carrasco -- Latina/o cultural expressions : a view of US society through the eyes of the subaltern / Edna Acosta-Belén -- José Limón, the devil and the dance / Jose E. Limón -- The everyday civil war : migrant labor, capital, and Latina/o studies / Nicholas De Genova -- The powers of women's words : oral traditions and performance art / Yolanda Broyles-González -- Language and other lethal weapons : cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture / Antonio I. Castañeda -- Looking for Papi : longing and desire among Chicano gay men / Tomás Almaguer -- On becoming / Nelly Rosario -- Of heretics and interlopers / Arturo Madrid -- Coloring class : racial constructions in twentieth-century Chicana/o historiography / Vicki Ruiz -- "El Louie" by Jośe Montoya : an appreciation / Raúl Villa -- Preservation matters : research, community, and the archive / Chon A. Noriega -- The star in my compass / Virginia Sánchez Korrol -- "Y que pasara con jovenes como Miguel Fernandez?" : education, immigration, and the future of Latinas/os in the United States / Pedro A. Noguera -- Latinas/os and the elusive queso for equal education / Sonia Nieto -- The moral monster : Hispanics recasting honor and respectability behind bars / Patricia Fernández-Kelly -- A rebellious philosophy born in East LA / Gerald P. López -- Latinas/os at the threshold of the information age : telecommunications challenges and opportunities / Jorge Reina Schement -- Conceptualizing the Latina experience in care work / Mary Romero -- Surviving AIDs in an uneven world : Latina/o studies for a brown epidemic / Carlos Ulises Decena -- Post-movimiento : the contemporary (re)generation of Chicana/o art / Tomás Ybarra-Frausto -- "God bless the law, he is white" : legal, local, and international politics of Latina/o and Black desegregation cases in post-World War II California and Texas / Neil Foley -- Latinas/os and the Mestizo racial heritage of Mexican Americans / Martha Menchaca -- Looking at that middle ground : racial mixing as a panacea? / Miriam Jiménez-Román -- Color matters : Latina/o racial identities and life chances / Ginetta E.B. Candelario -- Between blackness and latinidad in the hip hop zone / Raquel Z. Rivera -- Afro-Latinas/os and the racial wall / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- The (w)rite to remember : indigena as scribe 2004-5 (an excerpt) / Cherrie Moraga -- "How I learned to love salseros when my hair was a mess" by Edwin Torres : a comment / Edwin Torres -- Reflections on thirty years of critical practice in Chicana/o cultural studies / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Social aesthetics and the transnational imaginary / Ramón Saldívar -- The Taino identity movement among Caribbean Latinas/os in the United States / Gabriel Haslip-Viera -- Looking good / Frances Negrón-Muntaner -- "Chico, what does it feel like to be a problem?" : the transmission of brownness / José Esteban Muñoz -- "Fantasy heritage" : tracking Latina bloodlines / Rosa Linda Fregoso -- Latinas/os and Latin America : topics, destinies, disciplines / Román de la Campa -- Latinas/os and the (re)racializing of US society and politics / Suzanne Oboler -- Refugees or economic immigrants? : immigration from Latin America and the politics of US refugee policy / Maria Cristina García -- Inter-American ethnography : tracking Salvadoran transnationality at the borders of Latina/o and Latin American studies / Elana Zilberg -- From the borderlands to the transnational? : critiquing empire in the twenty-first century / Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

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The final chapter? : the Iraq War and the end of history / Lloyd C. Gardner -- The Vietnam laugh track / Marilyn B. Young -- Unraveling the domestic foreign policy consensus : presidential rhetoric, American public opinion, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq / Richard A. Melanson -- Iraq and Vietnam : military lessons and legacies / Richard Lock-Pullan -- A national symphony of theft, corruption and bribery? : anatomy of state building from Iraq to Vietnam / James M. Carter -- Vietnam, victory culture and Iraq : struggling with lessons, constraints and credibility from Saigon to Falluja / David Ryan -- Europe's Vietnam syndrome : America and the quagmire of Iraq / Jon Roper -- No more Vietnams : Iraq and the analogy conundrum / Trevor B. Mccrisken -- Vietnam and Iraq : strategy, exit and syndrome / John Mueller -- Falling dominoes : the United States, Vietnam and the war in Iraq / Matthew Masur -- The Iraq and Vietnam wars : some parallels and connections / John Dumbrell