Stories of victories for peace: For inspiration, encouragement and empowerment
A reader in California who orders 20 copies for family and friends for
Christmas, a
peace movement leader in Toronto who wishes 35 copies to spread to key
people in
local chapters, an enthusiastic General Director of UNESCO, professors
from
universities around the world using it for teaching peace, a democracy
activist in Albania
reading from it on local radio, a leading foreign affairs journalist
saying that it was great
reading - and a lot to learn , a Foreign Minister recommending it
warmly
whenever he
can ....
This is the kind of feedback that tells me that "Peace is possible"
has
become the book
I set out to make, in every respect - except one: "peace" was not sexy
enough to find
a major publisher to distribute the book all around the world. The
answer is the Internet.
Most people have a muct too modest vision of peace and accept to live
with a deadly
risky balancing act where we all the time risk to fall and be consumed
by devastating
military disasters. I wished to reach the general public with
attractive
stories of
successful efforts for a peace that deserves the name. At the same
time
the many
concrete examples showing that it can be done - and how - would be
empowering
also for people inside the peace movement. And a good tool for peace
education.
"Peace is possible" contains frank, lively, short and readable
personal
accounts from
32 authors - most of them new articles, written for this book by men
and
women who
were at the center of the action, Dalai Lama, Gorbachev, Jody
Williams,
Scilla Elworthy,
Joseph Rotblat, Daniel Ellsberg, Howard Zinn, Nelson Mandela, Richard
Falk,
Mordechai Vanunu, Joanna Macy, Howard Zinn S.. Together they offer a
wide
panorama of the efforts that create hope for a safe and peaceful world
order.
"Peace is Possible", just published by the PB with the support of
UNESCO, is a great
gift to yourself and everyyone concerned with saving this marvellous
green planet of
ours.
More information - how to order:
"Peace is possible" is easy to order at www.ipb.org - or use this
direct link: http://home.c2i.net/norpeace/peaceispossible.html
Price US$20 (US$ 15 for IPB members and low income. Also bulk rates). - in 6 languages!
Available already in 4 languages: Bangla, English, Finnish,
Norwegian. Forthcoming: Hindi and Marathi.