Peace Reader : Essential Readings on War and Justice, Non-Violence, and World Order

by Fahey, Joseph J.

• ISBN13: 9780809133178
• ISBN10: 0809133172
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Paulist Pr

Summary

A Peace Reader Revised contains articles reflecting different and even opposing viewpoints, offering competing visions of the future. They range from the scholarly to the folksy; from the philosophical to the satirical; from the didactic to the poetic. In an effort to help students develop critical thinking skills, the authors include study questions after every major article. The result is a book as contemporary as today's headlines and as timeless as the wisdom of the ages.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
SECTION ONE War and the Arms Race	5	(102)
1. The New Litany of "Innate Depravity," or Original Sin Revisited	5	(15)
Ashley Montagu
2. The Causes of War	20	(13)
Michael Howard
3. Patriarchy, Peace and Women Warriors	33	(18)
Christine Sylvester
4. Planning for Economic Conversion	51	(10)
Seymour Melman
Lloyd J. Dumas
5. Militarism in America	61	(15)
The Defense Monitor
6. A Declining Empire Goes to War	76	(4)
Paul Kennedy
7. Conscience and War	80	(6)
Joseph J. Fahey
8. ROTC Today and Tomorrow	86	(5)
Robert F. Collins
9. War Is No Way To Start a Career	91	(4)
Peter Passel
10. War Preparers' Anonymous	95	(4)
Kurt Vonnegut
11. "All Quiet on the Western Front"	99	(8)
Erich Maria Remarque
SECTION TWO Social Justice	107	(64)
1. Pacem in Terris	107	(6)
Pope John XXIII
2. Letter from a Birmingham Jail	113	(16)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. Socialism Informs the Best of Our Politics	129	(9)
Michael Harrington
4. The Wail of the Children	138	(3)
Mother Jones
5. The Case against Helping the Poor	141	(11)
Garrett Hardin
6. Chief Seattle's Message	152	(5)
Chief Seattle
7. First Letter to the Delaware Indians	157	(2)
William Penn
8. Amnesty International	159	(4)
Amnesty International
9. Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker	163	(8)
The Catholic Worker
SECTION THREE Non-Violence	171	(84)
1. Ahimsa, or the Way of Nonviolence	171	(5)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
2. Letter to Anthony a Bergis	176	(7)
Desiderius Erasmus
3. To Oliver Cromwell and The Time of My Commitment	183	(4)
George Fox
4. Address to the Congres de la Paix	187	(4)
Victor Hugo
5. Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer	191	(7)
Leo Tolstoy
6. Why I Leave the F.O.R.	198	(7)
Reinhold Niebuhr
7. The Individual Conscience	205	(8)
A. J. Muste
8. Are You a Conscientious Objector?	213	(5)
CCCO
9. The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response	218	(5)
`National Conference of Catholic Bishops
10. The Techniques of Nonviolent Action	223	(7)
Gene Sharp
11. The Holocaust as a Problem in Moral Choice	230	(19)
Robert McAfee Brown
12. Those Who Said `No' to the Holocaust	249	(6)
David Kitterman
SECTION FOUR Conflict Resolution	255	(78)
1. A Nuclear Age Ethos: Ten Psychological-Ethical Principles	255	(3)
Robert Jay Lifton
2. Communication and Conflict--Management Skills	258	(9)
Neil H. Katz
John W. Lawyer
3. Identifying Alternatives to Political Violence: An Educational Imperative	267	(12)
Christopher Kruegler
Patricia Parkman
4. You Be the Arbitrator	279	(8)
American Arbitration Association
5. Conflict Resolution: Isn't There a Better Way?	287	(9)
Warren E. Burger
6. Arbitration vs. Mediation--Explaining the Differences	296	(19)
John W. Cooley
7. Getting to "Yes" in a Nuclear Age	315	(18)
Roger Fisher
SECTION FIVE World Order	333	(100)
1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights	333	(6)
United Nations
2. Redefining National Security	339	(6)
Lester R. Brown
3. Foreign Aid and U.S. National Interests	345	(11)
George Shultz
4. Arbitration: An International Wallflower	356	(6)
Robert Coulson
5. The Lesser Evil over the Greater Evil	362	(8)
Jeane Kirkpatrick
6. America's Liberal Tradition	370	(7)
Charles William Maynes
7. Can Peace Be Imagined?	377	(14)
Elise Boulding
8. Toward a Paradigm of Peace	391	(13)
Betty A. Reardon
9. The Scandal of "Peace Education"	404	(17)
Andre Ryerson
10. Scientists and the Peace Movement	421	(12)
Johan Galtung
SECTION SIX Imagination and Hope	433
1. September 1, 1939	433	(3)
W. H. Auden
2. Dover Beach	436	(2)
Matthew Arnold
3. The Soldier	438	(1)
Rupert Brooke
4. The Coward	439	(1)
Eve Merriam
5. Conscientious Objector	440	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
6. The March into Virginia	441	(2)
Herman Melville
7. Independence	443	(2)
Henry David Thoreau
8. War Is Kind	445	(1)
Stephen Crane
9. Counter-Attack	446	(2)
Siegfried Sassoon
10. Strange Meeting	448	(2)
Wilfred Owen
11. The Battle of Blenheim	450	(2)
Robert Southey
12. The Canticle of Brother Sun	452	(2)
St. Francis of Assisi
13. The War Prayer	454	(1)
Mark Twain
14. "A Theft from Those Who Hunger..."	455	(1)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. Hero--Zero	456	(1)
Anonymous G.I.
16. "A Debt of Generosity..."	457	(1)
Thucydides
17. Incident at Damascus, Arkansas	458	(1)
John Fandel
18. The Hairy Man from the East	459	(1)
Chief Luther Standing Bear
19. My Religion	460	(1)
Leo Tolstoy
20. The Dhammadapada	461	(1)
Buddha
21. The Way of Life	462	(2)
Laotse
22. "Break up Your Fallow Ground..."	464	(1)
Hosea
23. "Hear This..."	465	(1)
Micah
24. "Swords into Plowshares..."	466	(1)
Micah
25. "Seek Good and Not Evil..."	467	(1)
Amos
26. "Let Justice Roll..."	468	(1)
Amos
27. "He Has Put Down the Mighty..."	469	(1)
Luke
28. "The Spirit of the Lord..."	470	(1)
Luke
29. "Blessed Are the Poor..."	471	(1)
Matthew
30. "Put on the Armor that God Gives..."	472	(1)
Ephesians
31. 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action	473	(7)
Gene Sharp
32. Peace Upon Earth	480	(1)
Thomas Hardy
33. Neither Blame Nor Praise	481	(1)
Dante Alighieri
34. Easy Essay	482
Peter Maurin