Cover; Contents; Preface. Contradictions: Peace/War and Observer/Participant; Introduction: The Military Peace Movement; 1 Joining the Military Peace Movement: Risky Business; 2 Insider-Outsiders: From Warriors to War Protestors; 3 Building a Family and Transforming Activists' Emotions; 4 Managing and Deploying the Insider-Outsider Identity; 5 Using Grief to Connect with Bystanders; Conclusion: One War Ends, Another War Continues; Appendix. Timeline of Major Events: Wars, Public Opinion, and Protests; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K
Lm; n; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; z
Summary
Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War-the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, Lisa Leitz demonstrates how the harrowing war experiences of veterans and their families motivated a significant number of them to engage in peace activism
