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[5] The Nation called the book a "comprehensive and fascinating memoir" but also stated that "The Missing Peace raises serious questions about the soundness of the Israel-first school of which Dennis Ross is a prominent member." [6] Former professor Norman G. Finkelstein wrote a rebuttal to The Missing Peace in the Journal of Palestine Studies ...
The War that Began in 1914 will come to be seen as having lasted until 1990. Thus this Part introduces the idea of an "epochal war', a historical construction that embraces several conflicts thought to be separate wars by the participants, and the notion of the "Long War", a conflict which embraces the First and Second World Wars, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Korean and ...
2007, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time. Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-14-303825-2. Paperback. 2009, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change The World…One Child at a Time (Young Adult Book). Mortenson, Greg; Relin, David Oliver; signature by Amira Mortenson, foreword by Jane Goddall.
Elliott is the author of novels for young adults, including "Annie, Between the States," a Civil War story which tracks how the upheaval of that conflict changes the life of the young heroine. Another work, "Give Me Liberty," recreates the rise of revolutionary fever in 1776 through the eyes of a young indentured servant who participates in one ...
Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...
The PCFF is also known as Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families for Reconciliation and Peace and as Bereaved Families Supporting Peace, Reconciliation, and Tolerance. PCFF was founded in 1995 by Yitzhak Frankenthal and several bereaved Israeli families. [1] According to an article in The Guardian, PCFF had more than 500 members in 2009. [2]
The book was first published in Britain. It won the £5,000 Duff Cooper Prize for an outstanding literary work in the field of history, biography or politics, the £3,000 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in the United Kingdom, and the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award in Canada.
The by-laws of the Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict of the American Sociological Association specify: [2] The purpose of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict is to foster the development and application of sociological theories and methods for the understanding and study of dynamics of collective conflict and its prevention ...