Jan Christian Smuts (1870 – 1950 ) It has been my lot to have passed many of the years of my life amid the conflicts of men; in their wars and in their Council Chambers. Everywhere I have seen men search and
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The Tajikistan Peace Process (London: Conciliation Resources, 2001, 99pp.) In comparison with many of the current intra-state conflicts, the inter-Tajik violence is notable both for its rapid escalation to war in 1992, less than a year after formal independence, and for its
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(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013) What should and should not do the international community in response to the current Syrian crisis? What is our responsibility in nongovernmental organizations and international grassroots movements? Would “humanitarian intervention” be helpful to Syrians? These are
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The Path to Indian Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 225pp)Simone Panter-Brick Simone Panter-Brick had written two earlier books on Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi against Machiavellism: Non-violence in Politics and Gandhi and the Middle East. Here, in a book written just before her death,
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The Challenges of the NGO Peacebuilding (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 267pp.) As Kim Reinann writes in this useful overview of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the peacebuilding field “In the past two decades, the number and influence of NGOs has grown dramatically, leading
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