The Literature of Peace - A Bibliography

Bibliography

The literature of peace is vast. Every home should have a peace library. Every person should be reading a peace book. The following is a sampling of the literature. The list is well short of comprehensive, and represents only a small percentage of what’s been written.

Ackerman, Peter and Jack Duvall. A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.

New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Adams, Judith Porter. Peacework: Oral Histories of Women Peace Activists. Boston. Twayne

Publishers: A Division of G.K. Hall & Co., 1990.

Alonso, Harriet Hyman, Charles Chatfield and Louis Kriesberg, eds. Peace as a Women’s Issue:

A History of the U.S. Movement for World Peace and Women’s Rights. Syracuse, N.Y.:

Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Altman, Nathaniel. The Nonviolent Revolution: A Comprehensive Guide to Ahimsa—the

Philosophy of Dynamic Harmlessness. Dorset, Great Britain: Element Books Limited,

Berrigan, Daniel. To Dwell in Peace: An Autobiography. San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row

Publishers, 1987

Chatfield, Charles, ed. Peace Movements in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1973

Coles, Robert. The Moral Intelligence of Children. New York: Penguin Putnam Inc., 1998.

Cornell, Thomas C., Robert Ellsberg and Jim Forest, eds. A Penny a Copy: Readings from The

Catholic Worker. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995.

Dear, John, S.J. The Sacrament of Civil Disobedience. Baltimore, MD: Fortkamp Publishing Co., 1994.

Dellinger, David. Revolutionary Nonviolence: Essays. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.

Diamond, Louise. The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways to Create a More Peaceful World. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2001.

Douglass, James W. The Non-Violent Cross: The Theology of Revolution and Peace. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969

Drew, Naomi. Peaceful Parents, Peaceful Kids: Practical Ways to Create a Calm and Happy Home. New York: Kensington Books, 2000.

Gara, Larry and Lenna Mae Gara. A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1999

Hallock, Daniel. Hell, Healing and Resistance: Veterans Speak. Farmington, PA: The Plough

Publishing House of the Bruderhof Foundation, 1998.

Harris, Ian M. Peace Education. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., Inc., Publishers, 1998.

Hentoff, Nat. Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste. New York: The Macmillan Company,

Holmes, Robert L. Nonviolence in Theory and Practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1990.

Krieger, David and Frank Kelly. Waging Peace II: Vision and Hope for the 21st Century, An Anthology of Essays. Chicago, IL: The Noble Press, Inc., 1992.

Laffin, Arthur J. and Anne Montgomery, eds. Swords into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament, Peace, Social Justice. Marion, SD: Fortkamp Publishing, 1996.

Lantieri, Linda and Janet Patti. Waging Peace in Our Schools. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996.

Lynd, Staughton and Alice Lynd. Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1995

Mananzan, Mary John, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Elsa Tamez, J. Shannon Clarkson, Mary C. Grey, and Letty M. Russell, eds. Women Resisting Violence: Spirituality for Life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.

McSorley, Richard T., S.J. My Path to Peace and Justice: An Autobiography. Marion, SD: Fortcamp Publishing, 1996.

Merton, Thomas, ed. Gandhi on Nonviolence: A Selection from the Writings of Mahatma Gandhi. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1964.

Merton, Thomas,. The Nonviolent Alternative. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

Moorehead, Caroline. Troublesome People: The Warriors of Pacifism. Bethesda, MD: Adler &

Adler Publishers, Inc., 1987.

Nagler, Michael N. The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001

Nolt, John. Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living. Washburn TN: Earth Knows Publications, 1995.

O’Gorman, Angie. The Universe Bends Toward Justice: A Reader on Christian Nonviolence in the U.S. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1990.

Seeley, Robert. The Handbook of Nonviolence: An Encyclopedia of Pacifism. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1986.

Shannon, William H. Seeds of Peace: Contemplation and Non-Violence. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co., 1996.

Sharp, Gene. The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action: Part Three. Boston, MA: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973.

True, Michael. An Energy Field More Intense Than War: The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Vanderhaar, Gerald A. Active Non-Violence: A Way of Personal Peace. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990.

Zinn, Howard. Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990.