Approaches to peace: a reader in peace studies

Why war? / Sigmund Freud

On aggression / Konrad Z. Lorenz

Warfare is only an invention - not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead

War and other essays / William Graham Sumner

The guns of August / Barbara Tuchman

Victims of groupthink / Irving Janis

The causes of war / Michael Howard

A structural theory of imperialism / Johan Galtung

National images and international systems / Kenneth Goulding

Glamorized nationalism: some examples in poetry

Redefining security: the new global schisms / Michael T. Klare

The moral equivalent of war / William James

Getting to YES / Roger Fisher and William Ury

Disarmament demands GRIT / Charles Osgood

The conduct of just and limited war / William V. O'Brien

The game of disarmament / Alva Myrdal

The gift of time / Jonathan Schell

Finding the future: the role of economic conversion in shaping the twenty-first century / Lloyd J. Dumas

International law / David P. Barash

The evolution of United Nations peacekeeping / Marrack Goulding

Perpetual peace / Immanuel Kant

The land ethic / Aldo Leopold

The pedagogy of the oppressed / P. Freire

Letter from a Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human rights / David P. Barash

An agenda for change / Oxfam

Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau

Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby / Leo Tolstoy

Conscientious objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Neither victims nor executioners / Albert Camus

Ahimsa, or the way of nonviolence / Mohandas Gandhi

Civilian resistance as a national defense / Gene Sharp

The Bhagavad Gita: Hindu

Being peace / Thich Nhat Hanh: Buddhist

Tao De Ching: Taoist

The Old Testament: Jewish

The New Testament: Christian

Holy disobedience / A. J. Muste

A devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann / Thomas Merton

A Christian's view of the arms race / George F. Kennan

Peace movements in history / Nigel Young

Building utopias in history / Elise Boulding

On humane governance / Richard Falk

Sexism and the war system / Betty Reardon

The politics of responsibility / Vaclav Hável

A few poetic visions.