Peace history: An introduction
Van den Dungen, Peter, and Lawrence S. Wittner. 2003. Journal of Peace Research 40, no. 4: 363-375. This piece provides an introduction to Peace Studies within History, emphasising the social nature of the study.…
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Ultraprimitive Pacifists: The Tasaday as a Symbol of Peace
Sponsel, Leslie E. 1990. Anthropology Today 6, no. 1: 3–5. Sponsel writes about the Tasaday peoples, an indigenous group living in the Lake Sebu area in Mindana, Phillipines. He discusses the symbolic relevance of the…
Ekila: Blood, Bodies, and Egalitarian Societies
Lewis, Jerome. 2008. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 2 : 297–315. A case study of the Mbendjele people in Northern Congo, and their indigenous belief of ‘ekila,’ which is an abstract…
Anthropology: Implications for Peace
Souillac, G., Fry, D.P. 2016. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. This chapter provides an introduction…
Iran’s Quest for Nuclear Power and Weapons
Tripathi, Sudhanshu. (2006) India Quarterly 62, no. 2 This article illustrates the contrasting perspectives of US and Iran on Iran’s possible acquisition of nuclear power status, highlighting how the idea of security…
The First Peace Societies
Cortright, David. 2008. Chapter. In Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas, 25-44. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cortright undertakes a historical analysis of the creation of Peace organisations from the…
Conflict Resolution among Peaceful Societies: The Culture of Peacefulness
Bruce D. Bonta. 1996. Journal of Peace Research 33, no. 4 : 403–20. Bonta analyses the way in which twenty four peaceful societies such as the Semai, the !Kung, and the Nubian peoples utilise methods of conflict…