In some of my research, I read Conflict Management and African Politics by Terrence Lyons and Gilbert M. Khadiagala. This was one of the few books I could find to explore African…
Category: History
Quick Review: Identity and Violence
I have been slow to post a quick review of Amartya Sen’s Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, but I wanted to post just to draw some attention to it as most people…
Quick Review: The Little Book of Racial Healing
The Little Books of Justice & Peacemaking is a great series of books that convey key arenas of scholarship, theory, and methodology in manageable sizes (about 100 pages each book or 1/2…
Quick Review: Talking To Strangers
I just finished Malcom Gladwell’s most recent book Talking to Strangers , which is another great read in keeping with many of his other books. The audiobook is a cutting edge approach to…
Quick Review: Preparing For Peace
As I have been working through many of the books of Peace Studies scholar-practitioner John Paul Lederach, here’s one from the late 90’s. Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, as the…
Quick Review: Interfaith Just Peacemaking
I just finished not too long ago the book Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the New Paradigm of Peace and War edited by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. This was…
Quick Review: In the Name of Identity
I read this really interesting book this week, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf. Maalouf is Lebanese but has spent much of his life in France….
Quick Review: Tears We Cannot Stop
Last week I got a chance to read Michael Eric Dyson’s Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America. It is in the same vein as James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Te-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, which were also quite powerful…
Quick Review: Negotiating the impossible
I just finished and really enjoyed Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts by Deepak Malhotra. It’s the next negotiation book in quite a line of them that I am reading. Malhotra is…