Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide

In the words of Chip Hauss, Alliance for Peacebuilding, George Mason University:

“At a time when we often feel overwhelmed by so many specific challenges, this book reminds us of two important overarching problems that transcend the specifics: First, war, in all its forms, is the problem. Second, the roots of war lie in the values and assumptions most people everywhere bring to conflict.  They must be changed; they can be.”

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Here is an excerpt from the book, "Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide" by Winslow Myers, published 2009 by Orbis Books.
 
Excerpt:
"Our unique stories nest within a larger story, the story of races and religions and nation–states that often find themselves at war. We absorb the drumbeat of violence coming through the media and wonder why our world must remain so alienated and brutal month after month, year after year, decade after decade. The U.S. slips out of the stalemate of the Korean War only to drift into another ambiguous war on Asian soil. We bring fifty years of cold war to a non-violent resolution only to find new adversarial dynamic emerging between the West and the Middle East. Israelis and Palestinians each claim the same contested space. Genocide, which the world forswore after the liberation of the concentration camps of Eastern Europe in 1945, sadly continues, as if an ultimate solution to conflict were to completely eliminate those who differ with us or appear different from us."
 
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