Alternative Nonviolent Responses Repressive (4 results)

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9781850722434.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:9781850722434.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. What action should we take when a government is oppressing, even killing, its citizens? Is force 'the only language a tyrant understands?' It is right to go to war? Is it effective? Were there alternative approaches which might have averted the crises in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo or East Timor? This book looks at the nonviolent means available to the international community. often was becomes 'inevitable' because more peaceful opportunities were missed. Writers with considerable experience in peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding describe some of the options: military peacekeeping, international criminal law, support for local peace, initiatives, work for political change, and strengthening the international institutions. One chapter considers the role the mass media play in wartime, and another describes the hidden costs of war. The book is for the reader with no specialist knowledge. It shows that we could do much more to prevent gross abuses of human rights and humanitarian crises. Two chapters focus on our personal opportunities as citizens to promote just and peaceful solitions. 139 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lampen, John, editor. No alternative? Nonviolent responses to repressive regimes. York: William Sessions, 2000. Paperback, VG. Minor shelfwear to corners. Binding strong. Vi, 139pp., contents clean and bright. What action should we take when a government is oppressing, even killing, its citizens? Is force 'the only language a tyrant understands?' It is right to go to war? Is it effective? Were there alternative approaches which might have averted the crises in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo or East Timor? This book looks at the nonviolent means available to the international community. often was becomes 'inevitable' because more peaceful opportunities were missed. Writers with considerable experience in peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding describe some of the options: military peacekeeping, international criminal law, support for local peace, initiatives, work for political change, and strengthening the international institutions. One chapter considers the role the mass media play in wartime, and another describes the hidden costs of war. The book is for the reader with no specialist knowledge. It shows that we could do much more to prevent gross abuses of human rights and humanitarian crises. Two chapters focus on our personal opportunities as citizens to promote just and peaceful solitions. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.