Reading for Action
Reading is one way of learning. It does not replace reflecting on experience or meditation or intuition, but reading books and reports can be a powerful tool for appropriate action, for innovation and creativity.
Reading can provide insights into new organizational structures and working relationships. In the Association of World Citizens‘ central activity of conflict resolution, books can provide analysis of power relations and the patterns of struggle centered on class, ethnic and religious conflicts and relations among States.
Books can also develop values of respect, benevolence and gratitude toward one another, toward dialogue and reconciliation.
Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 376pp.) David Cortright; Director of Policy Studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; and an activist…
Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash. (Louisville KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992, 310pp). John Paul Lederach tells the story of one of his intercultural mediation workshops in Panama where: “someone…
A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace), FAL, Alev Adil, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Bahriye Kemal, Maria Petrides (Eds.) (London: Saqi Books, 2019, 249pp.) Negotiations on the future of Cyprus encouraged by the United Nations remain…
Photo by TheAndrasBarta in Pixabay By Rene Wadlow. As we reflect on current armed conflicts; on which the Association of World Citizens has proposed measures for conflict resolution: – Nagorno-Karabakh, Yemen,…
Photo by Devanath in Pixabay Vijay Mehta. When the drums of war start beating; can cooler heads prevail and negotiations in good faith start?. Vijay Mehta has written a useful overview…
Photo by Steve Knutson on Unsplash. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020, 169pp) The Association of World Citizens has taken a lead in the promotion of a coordinated world food policy; with an emphasis…
(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). The title of this valuable book comes from the vocabulary of film and video making when images are “reframed”; to tell a different or…