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2011 Booklist Editor's Choice
2011 Reference and User Services Association Outstanding Reference Source Conflict Research Society Book of the Year 2010
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Four-volume set
Editor in Chief: Nigel Young
2176 pages
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25 half tones, 25 line drawings
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216x280mm
978-0-19-533468-5
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Hardback
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18 March 2010
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- Over 850 A-Z entries by leading scholars
- Fully cross-referenced with bibliographies, a timeline, map and glossary
- Also available online from the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf or through Oxford Reference Online offering flexible search and browse functionality and multi-user access
"Finding peaceful solutions to the world's increasingly complex problems will be a huge task, which must also be based upon knowledge, experience and research. I hope that 1his important new Encyclopedia will reach a global lay audience as well as policy makers and academic experts and encourage many thousands of readers to study further and work harder for the peace on which our whole future depends." -From the Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
This innovative and comprehensive encyclopedia charts the
interdisciplinary field of peace studies from ancient times to the present day, offering a comprehensive survey of the full range of historical, political, theoretical and philosophical issues relating to peace and conflict. All major figures are covered, as well as major events, organizations, theories, and much more.
World Leaders: Mohandas Gandhi, Margaret Mead, César Chávez, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lucretia Mott
Major Events: The Cuban Missile Crisis, Dayton Accords, Good Friday Agreement, Lebanon Hostage Crisis
Organizations: Greenpeace, League of Nations, United Nations, Save the Children, International Committee of the Red Cross
Theories: Just War, Civil Disobedience,
Conscientious Objection, Feminism and Peace, Postcolonialism and Peace, Power and Nonviolence Theory, Eco-Pacifism, Gay Rights
In the News: Chemical and Biological Weapons, Human Rights, War Crimes, Terrorism, Nuclear Disarmament
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Editor in Chief: Nigel Young, Cooley Research Professor in Peace Studies and Director of the Peace Studies Program, Colgate University
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"An invaluable and stimulating reference for anyone concerned about these interrelated issues." - Resurgence "The inclusion of this (Chronology) will be a feature reviewers will favourably comment on; to my knowledge, it will be the most extensive and authoritative timeline of its kind, and will prove very useful. Dr Peter van den Dungen, Lecturer of Peace Studies, University of Bradford" "A fine addition to undergraduate research collections and institutions supporting peace studies. -Library Journal" "provides a cornucopia of pertinent facts... The Guardian" "This four-volume collection represents an extraordinary piece of work, unprecedented in scale and scope, detailed, empirically rich and
theoretically broad ... it should find its way into many libraries" - International Affairs
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