In Give Peace a Chance, the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with
his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace
achievements over the past 25 years. Including lessons from
personal experience, pithy quotes from interviews with
international dignitaries, and the insights of a documentary
sensibility, this book reflects upon striking moments in peace
history and inflects them with the perspective of preventive
medicine. From Jane Goodall's rainforest research station, to a
hostage taking in Eastern Africa, to the Reagan-Gorbachev
post-summit epiphany in Reykjavik, the Hamburgs take us there. They
then distill the wisdom of these and many other encounters into an
essential "six pillars of prevention"-education, early action,
democracy building, socioeconomic development, human rights, and
arms control. These six pillars are essential not only to
reflections upon the past, but to future prospects emerging from
recent challenges to peace-the Arab Spring, the violent repression
in Syria, and the brewing faceoff with Iran. Features of this
engaging text: Combines personal experience(including involvement
in a hostage rescue mission) with ongoing research in a variety of
areas over 50+ years. Includes feature quotes and vignettes from
international figures including Kofi Annan, Sam Nunn, and Hillary
Clinton, among many others. Builds upon six key pillars of
prevention: education, early warning, democracy, development, human
rights, and arms control. Concludes with prescriptions for peace
action in four key areas: the US and Western democracies, the UN,
the EU, and NATO. Offers carefully selected Recommended Readings
for every chapter. See Stanford University's website for
twenty-nine videotaped interviews with world leaders in the
prevention of mass violence at
http://lib.stanford.edu/preventing-genocide/list-interviews
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