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Title Voices for peace : an anthology / edited by Anna Kiernan
Published New York : Scribner ; London : Simon & Schuster, 2001

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Description 256 pages ; 20 cm
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Contents 'Lessons We've Learnt' / Caryl Churchill 3 -- 'Address to Media Workers Against the War (MWAW)' / Paul Foot 5 -- 'Redressing the Balance' / Dominique Lapierre 11 -- 'Ledbury Street' / Courttia Newland 15 -- 'Scribes of the New Racism' / William Dalrymple 23 -- 'Talking About Emotions' / Ronan Bennett 29 -- 'The Perils of Selective Grief' / Mark Steel 35 -- 'The Case for Disenthralment' / Martin Bell 39 -- 'We're All in this Together Now' / Chris Bellamy 47 -- 'Not in My Name' / Katharine Hamnett 55 -- 'Diaries from the Front Line' / Assad Hafeez 57 -- 'Nile Blues' / Ahdaf Soueif 61 -- 'The Bigger They Come, The Harder They Fall' / Matthew Parris 77 -- 'William Blake Says: Every Thing that Lives is Holy' and 'To Whom It May Concern' / Adrian Mitchell 83 -- 'An Eye for an Eye' / Terence Conran 87 -- 'Peace. What is That?' / Annie Lennox 89 -- 'The Case for Collateral Repairs' / George Monbiot 93 -- 'The Grammar of the War on Terrorism' / Terry Jones 99 -- 'First Writing Since' / Suheir Hammad 105 -- 'Where does the Bombing Stop?' / Rachel Billington 115 -- 'First Betrayal' / Joseph Olshan 121 -- '11 September 2001: Firebirth' / Ben Okri 125 -- 'The Invisible Women' / Natasha Walter 129 -- 'A Time of Gifts' / Stephen Jay Gould 139 -- 'Collective Passion' / Edward W. Said 145 -- 'War is Easy' / Terry Waite 153 -- 'The True, Peaceful Face of Islam' / Karen Armstrong 159 -- 'The Right to Judge?' / James Mawdsley 163 -- 'Hearts and Minds: Avoiding a New Cold War' / Rahul Mahajan, Robert Jensen 171 -- 'Real Aid, Fair Trade and the Green Renaissance' / David Bellamy 179 -- 'The Jihad for Peace' / Ziauddin Sardar 185 -- 'Society is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link' / Anita Roddick 195 -- 'Pandora's Box' / Paul Marsden 201 -- 'Make Law, Not War' / Geoffrey Robertson 213 -- 'The Presence of Justice' / Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford 221 -- 'The Devil's Complaint' / Jason Elliot 225 -- 'A River Runs Through It' / Martin Wright, Jonathon Porritt 231
Summary This collection brings together a range of voices from intellectuals to poets, Muslims to Christians, peace activists to public figures, to reflect and articulate the strong surge of public support for reconciliation and mediation over military action against Afghanistan
Subject Terrorists.
Terrorism.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Militarism.
World politics -- 1995-2005.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Peace.
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
United States -- Foreign relations -- Afghanistan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100158
Afghanistan -- Foreign relations -- United States. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114096
Author Kiernan, Anna.
ISBN 0743230663 paperback