Books

Edited by Owen Everett

Around the world children, adolescents, and young adults encounter the military and military values in a variety of ways, from visits to schools by military personnel, to video games and the presence of the military and its symbols in public places. Young people are encouraged to see the military as necessary and valuable; something to be supportive of, not to question.

Through articles, images, survey data and interviews, Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It documents the seeds of war that are planted in the minds of young people in many different countries. However, it also explores the seeds of resistance to this militarisation that are being sown resiliently and creatively by numerous people. We hope the book will help to disseminate these latter seeds. It is not just a book for peace and antimilitarist activists: it is a book for parents and grandparents, teachers, youth workers, and young people themselves. 

Download the pull book as a pdf here.

Around the world children, adolescents, and young adults encounter the military and military values in a variety of ways, from visits to schools by military personnels, to video games and the presence of the military and its symbols in public places. Young people are encouraged to see the military as necessary and valuable; something to be supportive of, not to question.

Edited by Ellen Elster and Majken Jul Sørensen Preface by Cynthia Enloe PUBLISHED BY WAR RESISTERS' INTERNATIONAL April 2010 ISBN 978-0-903517-22-5 Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales.

Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group

Original pamphlet with 21 pictures available from WRI webshop

Written by the Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group in 1983, and published by them in cooperation with War Resisters' International, the text of Piecing It Together: Feminism and Nonviolence is online here with the permission of the members of the Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group.

Housmans Bookshop, 7pm


On 23 April, War Resisters' International will launch its new publication "Women and Conscientious Objection" at Housmans Bookshop in London. The editors and some of the contributors will be present.

Social change doesn't just happen. It's the result of the work of committed people striving for a world of justice and peace. This work gestates in groups or cells of activists, in discussions, in training sessions, in reflecting on previous experiences, in planning, in experimenting and in learning from others. Preparing ourselves for our work for social justice is key to its success.

WRI Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns

You can order a printed copy of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns in our webshop at http://wri-irg.org/node/8410. Copies of the second edition of the handbook are available at http://wri-irg.org/node/23245.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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- Introduction

About this Handbook and How to Use It What is Nonviolence and Why Use it How Does Nonviolence Work? Nonviolence Training: Role of Trainers; Potential Topics for Nonviolence Training You and Your Group: Strengthening a Group; Exploring Differences; What Do You Want? Historical Uses of Nonviolence: What Works Where; The Role of Pacifists; Organising Case Study: Nonviolence Training in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Case Study: Otpor: People's Power in Serbia

- Gender and Nonviolence

Introduction to the gender section What is gender An example of linking peace and gender issues: New Profile in Israel

- Tasks and Tools for Organising and Facilitating Trainings

Introduction to the section Working Together Check-List for Organising a Training Check-List for Facilitating a Training

- Nonviolent Campaigns

What Makes a Campaign Nonviolent Planning Nonviolent Campaigns Constructive Programme The Movement Action Plan (updated) Forms of Nonviolent Action Stages of Escalation Role of media Campaign case study guide

- Organising for Effective Nonviolent Actions

Sending the protest message Coping with the stress and strain of taking a stand Humour and nonviolent actions Working in Groups: affinity groups, group process, decision making Techniques for consensus decision making in large groups: the spokespersons council method (New) Check list for planning an action Roles in, before, and after an action Legal support Jail support Evaluation

- Stories and Strategies

Introduction International solidarity campaign with South Africa Seabrook - Wyhl - Marckolsheim - transnational links in a chain of campaigns International Antimilitarist marches Chile: Gandhi's Insights Gave People Courage to Defy Chile's Dictatorship Israel - New Profile learns from the experience of others Turkey- Building a nonviolent culture The applications of Augusto Boal's “Theatre of Oppressed” in Turkey South Korea - Challenges and successes of working in nonviolence Peace Community of San José de Apartadó,Colombia : A lesson of resistance, dignity and courage Bombspotting - towards an European Campaign 15th of May - International Day of Conscientious Objection

- Exercises for Working in Nonviolence

Introduction Hassle - Parallel line Conflict line Brainstorming Speak out A gender dialogue for peacebuilders Why do what teacher says? (new) Who Has Power in a School? (new) 10/10 strategies The tree Pillars of power Spectrum of allies Consequences of fear Tree and wind Decision making Cross spectrum Role playing Forum Theatre Tools for Grounding, Protecting, and Blockading Spectrum or Barometer

- Do it Yourself

- Handbook glossary of terms

- Resources

Resources for the printed version

- A.J. Muste Memorial Institute International Nonviolence Training Fund

- Links to WRI network

If you want to order printed copies of the handbook you can go to http://wri-irg.org/node/8410.

Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective

Françoise Dauce and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (ed.), ibidem, Stuttgart 2006

This book is not written from a pacifist perspective -- hardly so, and many authors write from a clearly pro-military perspective. But this is not a weakness, as we as readers can easily add this perspective. What the book offers is some insight into the phenomenon of dedovshchina -- the hazing of Russian conscripts to a degree unknown in Western societies.

edited by Chris Ney

Timed to coincide with the launch of its new Nonviolence Programme, War Resisters' International finally publishes articles based on presentations at its 'Nonviolence and Social Empowerment Study Conference" in February 2001. While not complete, these articles reflect some of the discussion at the conference. which was the result of a process over several years.

Published by War Resisters’ International
5 Caledonian Road
London N1 9DX
2005

© Devi Prasad

Buy this book at the WRI webshop.

C O N T E N T S List of illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction PART ONE CHAPTER 1

The motive force

CHAPTER 2

New book by Devi Prasad out on 21 October 2005

The War Resisters' International was formed in reaction to the senseless slaughter of World War I with a mission not only to oppose all war but also to strive to eradicate its causes. This ambitious programme introduced a new and political dimension to the existing moral and religious basis of pacifism.

Devi Prasad, War is a Crime Against Humanity: the Story of War Resisters' International, London, War Resisters' International 2005, pp. 555

[a shorter version of this review appears in the November 2005 issue of Peace News]