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The No Nonsense Guide To Conflict And Peace
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Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace by : Peter Greener
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace written by Peter Greener and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable guide is excellent for students, peace groups and activists. With tables, maps, case studies and quotes it looks at how conflict escalates and ways it can be prevented. It examines the changing types of war, including the War on Terror and ethnic conflict such as in Rwanda; the role of diplomacy and the UN and what steps ordinary people are taking to re-build communities. It also offers ideas and inspiration for creating lasting peace.
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Download or read book No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the war on terror dominates world headlines and conflicts of all kinds abound, this No-Nonsense Guide provides a refreshing antidote. Can conflict be prevented? If not, how can it be contained? Drawing on the authors’ wide range of experience, from the UN to the local village, Conflict and Peace will help readers to understand why conflicts persist - and how they can be transformed.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to the United Nations by : Maggie Black
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to the United Nations written by Maggie Black and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the United Nations, including its history, structure, and organization; successes and failures; and suggestions for reform to address some of its limitations.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Fair Trade by : David Ransom
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Fair Trade written by David Ransom and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From coffee farms in Peru and cocoa production in Ghana to jeans manufacture in China and the Banana War of Guatemala and the Caribbean, this fully revised No-Nonsense Guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' trade around the world, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to Science by : Jerome Ravetz
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to Science written by Jerome Ravetz and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, we need to let go of old ideas and assumptions. This No-Nonsense Guide to Science introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. We must accept uncertainty and ignorance in the field, as well as the need for citizens’ participation in the policies involving science.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty by : Jeremy Seabrook
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty written by Jeremy Seabrook and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide questions conventional thinking about wealth and poverty—is the opposite of poverty really wealth, or is it safety and sufficiency? Drawing on experience of poor people all over the world, the author gives voice to those whose views are rarely sought and shows how we all need to live more modestly to make poverty history. Jeremy Seabrook has written more than thirty books (including Travels in the Skin Trade and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer, and playwright. He has contributed to many magazines, including the New Statesman and The Ecologist.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism by : Jonathan Barker
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism written by Jonathan Barker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly accessible history of terrorism looking at core examples from the Middle East, instances of state terrorism and terrorist fringes of political movements. Covers the theories justifying and guiding terrorist acts and the battle of images that accompanies them, including: the proliferation of terrorist activities over recent years and international hotspots, the war on terror', terrorist acts carried out by states and the constraints on democracy and political and civil liberties that so often characterise the response to terrorism.'
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Tourism by : Pamela Nowicka
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Tourism written by Pamela Nowicka and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifies the often invisible impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. From labour conditions to development by stealth to the role of elites and the cultural impacts on both the visitor and the visited. |The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works.| - George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Captive State
Book Synopsis No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, 3rd Edition by : Sally Blundell
Download or read book No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, 3rd Edition written by Sally Blundell and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2013 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the producersat the start of the chain. Sally Blundell explores the origins of fair trade and what it is likely to become in the face of growing disparities between the principles and the practice.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health by : Shereen Usdin
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health written by Shereen Usdin and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of modern healthcare shows that public health is largely determined by socio-economic factors.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam by : Ziauddin Sardar
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to World Music by : Louise Gray
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to World Music written by Louise Gray and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look behind the catch-all term world music' aiming to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who its audience is and why it has become such a popular genre. Through chapters on the many different genres that make up this multi-faceted area, the case for music as a powerful harmonising tool is aptly put forward.'
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration by : Peter Stalker
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to International Migration written by Peter Stalker and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely guide to a major issue that is never far from the political headlines. Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. He has written two books on migration for the International Labor Organization.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Animal Rights by : Catharine Grant
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Animal Rights written by Catharine Grant and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows why the promotion and protection of animal rights is more critical than ever.
Book Synopsis The No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity by : Vanessa Baird
Download or read book The No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity written by Vanessa Baird and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifies all the colors of the sexual rainbow, tracking the campaigns for rights and equality worldwide.
Book Synopsis No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism, 2nd Edition by : Jonathan Barker
Download or read book No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism, 2nd Edition written by Jonathan Barker and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism and counter-terrorism have become key points in political talk and government policy. This No-Nonsense Guide has been revised and updated to take account of the major changes in global terrorism over the past seven years. Jonathan Barker presents a highly accessible history of terrorism that looks at examples from the Middle East and elsewhere, instances of state terrorism, and the terrorist fringes of political movements. He also delves beneath the surface, offering political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism, the theories that justify and guide terrorist acts, and the battle of images that accompanies them.
Book Synopsis The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food by : Wayne Roberts
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food written by Wayne Roberts and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering fast food, organic food, junk food, institutional food, and more, this guide shows how “real food” has become increasingly scarce, with production and distribution increasingly dominated in the West by agri-business. The guide goes on to present the alternatives that are emerging based on the concept of community food security. Wayne Roberts is a leading North American writer, activist, and practitioner in community food security. An author and columnist for NOW Magazine, he’s on the board of the Community Food Security Coalition and Food Secure Canada, and coordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council, the most respected city food group in the world.
