The Iraq War and its consequences: thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars
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Beschreibung:Foreword / Wang Gungwu -- Introduction / Irwin Abrams -- pt. 1. Contributions from Nobel Peace Prize winners -- Individuals: -- War is anachronistic, an outmoded approach / Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet -- Importance of nonviolence and harmony / Tenzin Gyatso -- The United Nations left us no option but to act / David Trimble -- Iraq and preemptive self-defense / Jody Williams -- The post-Cold War and the unipolar world : can the U.S. Lead? / Jose Ramos-Horta -- Seismic change in nuclear policy / Bernard Lown -- The nuclear issue : Pugwash and the policies of the Bush administration / Joseph Rotblat -- American leadership in a globalised world : 9/11, Iraq and beyond / Frederik Willem de Klerk -- Iraq after first (1991) Gulf War / Mairead Corrigan Maguire -- Organizations: -- Picking up the pieces in Gaza / Peter Hansen, Commissioner General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UN --
- Open letter to belligerents / Irene Khan, Secretary-General, Amnesty International, 1977 -- A second moment of hope / Mary Ellen McNish, Executive Secretary, American Friends Service Committee, USA, 1947 -- At a time of our own choosing : a Quaker reflection on the war in Iraq / Brian Phillips, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, UK, 1947 -- The International Peace Bureau seeks a world without war / Cora Weiss, Permanent International Peace Bureau -- Some legal aspects of the military operation in Iraq / Christian Dominice, Secretary-General, Institute of International Law, Switzerland, 1904 -- pt. 2. Contributions from eminent scholars -- Wars of terror / Noam Chomsky -- Rumors of war / Joseph Stiglitz -- The hidden costs of war : how the Bush doctrine is undermining democracy in Iraq and democracy in America / William D. Hartung -- What future for the UN Charter system of war prevention? : reflections on the Iraq War / Richard Falk --
- Iraq : educational renewal for an Arab renaissance? / John Daniel -- Warning from history : why Iraq is not Japan / John W. Dower -- Kirkuk : an eyewitness account / Eric Stover -- Lifting the fog / Bonnie Azab Powell -- Is the human rights era over? : reflections on the Asia-Pacific post-September 11th / Rosemary Foot -- Dealing with rights-abusing regimes without going to war / Helena Cobban -- Alternatives to war on Iraq, North Korea and Iran / Frank N. von Hippel -- Missing in action : the Iraq Museum and the human past / Benjamin R. Foster -- Reflections on the looting of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad / Colin Renfrew (Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn) -- End of a dictator / Faleh A. Jabar -- Iraq : collective punishment in war and peace / Mahmood Mamdani -- Multilateral organizations after the U.S.-Iraq war / Lisa L. Martin -- War talk / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Multilateralism and American power / Roland Paris -- The burden of nation-building in postwar Iraq / Roland Paris --
- Moral courage and society : lessons from Yugoslavia / Svetlana Broz -- The Iraq War and the dialogue among civilizations / Akira Iriye -- pt. 3. Sermons in closing ... -- A sermon of sorrow / Bishop Gunnar Stalsett, Bishop of Oslo and Former Deputy Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee -- A memorial service on the UN tragedy / Gunnar Stalsett
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