Resources

Relations of Violence

• Reading: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam [1967]" in The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace, introduction by Howard Zinn (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002)

• Prof. Emeritus Al Cave
  • Dehumanization and the History of Violence Against Native Americans
    • Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999).
    • David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, repr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
    • Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
    • Alfred A. Cave, "Genocide in the Americas" in Dan Stone, ed , The Historiography of Genocide (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
    • Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010).
• Dr. S. Amjad Hussain
  • Confessions of a Closet Terrorist
    • "Recognize Palestine to spur peace accord with Israel" (Toledo Blade column, 10/3/2011)
    • "Bin Laden still casts a frightening shadow on the world" (Toledo Blade column, 9/19/2011)
    • "Followers of Islam subjected to decade of unfair treatment" (Toledo Blade column, 9/11/2011)
    • "The West need not fear the resurgence of Islam" (Toledo Blade column, 7/25/2011)
    • S. Amjad Hussain, Treading a Fine Line (a collection of 51 op-ed columns with readers' comments), available from: Literary Circle of Toledo/ 2836 Manley Road/ Maumee, Ohio 43537 e-mail toledolit@bex.net.
• Andy Thayer
  • Dehumanization, War and Other Violence
    • Gay Liberation Network
    • Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism

Culture of Fear

• Reading: Vine Deloria, Jr.

"Non-Violence in American Society [1974]," in Vine Deloria, Jr., For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, ed. James Treat (New York: Routledge, 1999).

• Terry Lodge, Esq.
  • Renouncing the Surveillance State
    • Committee to Stop FBI Repression
    • Green is the New Red
    • Spy Files: Illegal Domestic Spying (ACLU)
    • Pennsylvania Intelligence Bulletin No. 131, Aug. 30, 2010
    • Linked here is a copy of a response to a recent complaint from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the Department of Homeland Security regarding "potential abuse of authority by officials of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and Federal Protective Service (FPS) in the creation of monthly calendars of protest activity near FPS-protected buildings."
    • A poem, "The Mask of Anarchy," by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Prof. Renee Heberle
  • American Exceptionalism and the Violence of the Carceral State
    • The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program

The Wages of War

• Reading: Leo Tolstoy

"Patriotism and Government" [1900] in War--Patriotism--Peace, by Leo Tolstoi, edited and introduction by Scott Nearing (New York: Vanguard Press, 1926)

• Greg Coleridge
  • Ending Our Economic Addiction to War
    • Northeast Ohio Office Cost of War program
    • Move to Amend (Ohio)
    • Statements by Greg Coleridge
• Dr. Trudy Bond, Psychologist
  • Ten Years of Torture and Counting
    • Witness Against Torture
    • Controlled Insanity
    • When Healers Harm
    • Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
    • Center for Justice and Accountability
    • APA Confab Whitewashes Torture by Shrinks
    • Shrinks, Lies and Torture
    • If Not Now, When?
• Richard W. Hanusz
  • School of the Americas, School of Assassins: History and Present Activity
    • School of Americas (SOA) Watch
    • The School of the Americas is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
    • James Hodge and Linda Cooper, Disturbing the Peace (Orbis Books)
    • Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins: Guns, Greed, and Globalization (Orbis Books)

Round Robin

• What did we miss?
  • Globalization
    • Global Policy Forum on Globalization
  • Empire
  • Immigration
  • Domestic Violence
  • Patriarchy
    • Barbara Hope, "Patriarchy: A State of War" from Peacework: Twenty Years of Nonviolent Social Change, edited by Pat Farren, American Friends Service Committee, 1991.
    • Carol Ascher, "Narrowing the Battlefield," from Confrontation (Winter 1991), Long Island University Library Journal.
    • Mary Roadkowsky, "Feminism, Peace, and Power," from The Class of Nonviolence, prepared by Colman McCarthy of the Center for Teaching Peace, 4501 Van Ness Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016
    • War Resisters League Feminism and Nonviolence Task Force: links and resources exploring the connections between war, partiarchy, militarism, and gender.
  • Media
  • Death Penalty
    • Campaign to End the Death Penalty
    • What's Happening in Ohio
    • Death Penalty Information Center
    • The Reality of the Death Penalty, By former ACLU of Ohio Legal Director Jeff Gamso
  • Animal Cruelty
  • Environmental Destruction

Practicing Peace

• Reading: Dorothy Day

"Little by Little" in By Little and By Little: The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day, ed. Robert Ellsberg (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984)

• Sr. Paulette Schroeder
  • Walking in the Sandals of My Palestinian Friends...Determined to Know the Truth and Act
    • Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
• Dr. Asma Abdel-Halim
  • on peacebuilding in Sudan

Teaching peace

• Reading: Colman McCarthy

"I'd Rather Teach Peace" From the preface of Colman McCarthy, I'd Rather Teach Peace (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2002).

• Prof. Dale Snauwaert
  • The Fundamentals of Peace Education in a Democratic Society
    • Center for Nonviolence & Democratic Education at UT
    • In Factis Pax (In Knowledge [There Is] Peace) Online Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice
    • Betty A. Reardon Collected Papers, 1960-2009
• Prof. Marc Simon
  • on peace studies
    • Charles F. Howlett, "American Peace History since the Vietnam War," Perspectives on History (December 2010): 35-38.
    • "The Future of Peace Studies," Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 14, no. 1 (Spring 2002).
• Prof. Ashley Pryor
  • on sustainability
    • "Post-prison Garden Project Grows Earth Stewards," Yes! (Summer 2010).
    • Outdoor Classroom Garden

Workshop: Learning Nonviolence

• Reading: Mohandas Gandhi

"My Faith in Nonviolence" in The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace, introduction by Howard Zinn (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002)

• Josie Setzler
  • Nonviolence Practice: An Exercise
    • Creating a Culture of Peace
    • Pace E Bene
    • Project Peace: Imagining a World Without War—Sr. Paulette Schroeder, Tiffin, OH pauletteosf@hotmail.com (no website yet)
    • Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings, selected with an introduction by John Dear (Orbis)
    • Eknath Easwaran, Gandhi the Man: The Story of His Transformation (Nilgiri Press)
    • The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace, Introduction by Howard Zinn (Beacon)
    • Mark Kurlansky, Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library)

Choosing Peace

• Mike Ferner, Interim Exec. Dir. of Veterans for Peace
  • Exploring Civil Disobedience and Civil Resistance
    • Mike Ferner remembers conscientious objection, from Days of Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military during the Vietnam War, ed. Gerald R. Gioglio (Trenton, N.J.: The Broken Rifle Press, 1989).
• Staughton Lynd
  • Saying No in a Volunteer Army
    • Staughton Lynd delivered the first David Dellinger memorial lecture to the War Resisters League in New York City and later presented it at the 2009 conference of the Peace History Society. It is available under the title "Someday They'll Have a War and Nobody Will Come" in From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader, ed. Andrej Grubacic (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010). The address of PM Press is P.O. Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623, and the press can also be contacted at www.pmpress.org. Discounts are available on orders of multiple copies.
    • J. E. McNeil, Peace-Work Quilt: Essays by J. E. McNeil (Washington, DC: Center on Conscience and War, 2009). The address of the Center is 1830 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009-5706.
    • Howard Zinn on War, second edition (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011).
    • Richard Moser, The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996).
    • H.R. ------, proposed Military Conscientious Objector Act of 2011, available from Center on Conscience and War at the above address.