Peace Studies - Readings spring-04

Reading for the Galtung seminar 4.-5. desember 2003; find here parts of Galtung's book parts of Galtung's book

Vidar Vambheim:
(* = Article or chapter from a book: Copies will be available in booklets at the Faculty Front Desk).

Galtung, Johan; Peace by peaceful means : peace and conflict, development and civilization: Prio /Sage, Oslo & London 1996, p.9-59, 70-126, 196-210 [120 p]

Skjelsbæk, Inger og Smith, Dan (ed): Gender, Peace and Conflict. PRIO/Sage 2001, p. 1-13, 47-67, 104-121 [51p]

Walzer, Michael: Just and Unjust Wars. A moral argument with historical illustrations, Basic Books 2000. p.21-47, 74-109, 329-335 [70 p]

*Barash, David P. and Webel, Charles P.: Peace and Conflict Studies, ch 1,3,pp 1-27, 56-84 [56 p]

*Fischer, Dieter: Nonmilitary Aspects of Security:
UNIDIR 1993, p.62-74 [13 p]

* S. Howell & al (eds.): Societies at Peace. Routledge 1989, pp.31-59, 213-243. [58 p]
[Total no. of pages - Vambheim 369p]

Jørgen Johansen:

Ross, Corey: The East German dictatorship : problems and perspectives in the interpretation of the GDR, Arnold: Oxford University Press, 2002, London,
New York. ISBN 0340762667 pp 126-148 [22 p]

Kriesberg, Louis: Constructive conflicts: from escalation to resolution, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham MD, 1998. ISBN 0847688925 pp 1-53 [53 p]

Weber, Thomas: Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics, The Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, 1991. ISBN 8185411077. pp 82-106 [24 p]

McCarthy, Ronald M: Nonviolent action: a research guide, Garland Publishers, New York 1997. ISBN 0815315775. pp XV-XXXI [16 p]

Miall, Hugh/ Woodhouse, Tom/ Ramsbotham, Oliver: Contemporary conflict resolution : the prevention, management and transformation of deadly conflicts, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1999. pp 1-38 [38]

Pfetsch, Frank R./ Rohloff, Christoph: National and international conflicts, 1945-1995 : new empirical and theoretical approaches, Routledge Advances in International Relations, Routledge, London 2000. pp 1-61 [61 p]
[Number of pages Johansen 214 p]

Integrated Peace and Conflict Studies II: The Western Global ‘Order’ in Philosophical, Historical and Theoretical Perspective

1. Western Political Theoretical Foundations

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, selected extracts

C.B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Chapter on Hobbes
“The State as Organized Crime,” in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

John Gerrard Ruggie, “Territoriality and Beyond: Problematizing Modernity in International Relations”, International Organization 47:1 (1993), 139-174. (36 pp.)

Benno Teschke (1998), “Geopolitical Relations in the European Middle Ages: History and Theory”, International Organization 52:2 (1998), 325-58. (34 pp.)

2. Liberal Humanitarianism

John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, selected extracts

J.S. Mill, On Liberty, selected extracts

Immanuel Kant, selected readings

C.B. Macpherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism, Chapter on Locke

C.B.. Machperson, The Real World of Democracy

A. Linklater, “Men and Citizens in International Relations”, in H.Williams (ed.), A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1993), 309-325

3. The political-economic order:
(i) Economic Perspectives: Liberal, Marxist

Smith

Marx

4. (ii) Political-economic development

Jurgen Habermas, Friedrich von Hayek
Perry Anderson, The Rise of the Absolutist State
Anthony Brewer, Theories of Imperialism
Lenin, Hobson

5. World economic order

Immanuel Wallerstein, selected readings on world systems

Johan Galtung, selected readings on dependency

Robert Cox, “Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory”, Millennium 10:2 (1981), 126-155.

6. International Law (announced later)

7. International Law (announced later)

8. The System/society of states: Sovereignty, human rights

Hedley Bull, 'Society and Anarchy in International Relations', in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds.), Diplomatic Investigations (London: Allen and Unwin, 1966), 35-50.

Alan James, Sovereign Statehood: The Basis of International Society, Ch. 1

Hedley Bull, “The Grotian Conception of International Society,” in Butterfield and Wight

John Vincent, International Relations and Human Rights (1986), Ch. 1

9. Conceptual, ideological and institutional foundations

John Hoffman, Sovereignty, Chs. 1, 2 and 5, pp. 1-20
and 43-53.

Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation

Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations, Ch. 1

Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on The Concepts of Sovereignty, selected extracts

R.B.J. Walker, Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), ch. 4: “History, Structure, Reification”, 81-103.

R.B.J. Walker, “Sovereign Identities and the Politics of Forgetting”, in Inside/Outside, 159-183.

10. Conditions of war in historical perspective:
(i) The Case of World War One

11. Continued

Joseph S Nye, Jr., Understanding International Conflicts. An Introduction to Theory and History Third Edition (Longman 2000) ch. 2-5, pp.30-146.

12. Conditions of peace in historical perspective

Olav Riste, Norway's Foreign Relations. A History. (Universitetsforlaget 2001), ch. 10, pp. 206-34.

Ola Tunander, “Inventing the Barents Region: Overcoming the East-West Divide”, in Olav Schram

Stokke and Ola Tunander (eds.), The Barents Region: Cooperation in Arctic Europe (Sage 1994), pp. 31-44.

Jens Petter Nielsen, "The Barents Region in Historical Perspective", in Stokke and Tunander, pp. 87-100.

13. Social conflict and revolutions in historical perspective

Bahru Zewda, A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1885-1974, ch. 5: “From Liberation to Revolution 1941-1974"

Reference: Richard L. Greaves et al, Civilizations of the World: The Human Adventure (Harper and Row, 1990)

14. De/colonisation, conflict and war

Tekeste Negash & Kjetil Tronvoll, Brothers at War Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War (James Currey Press 2000), ca. 150 pages

Cultural System and Social Conflicts

B. Olsen, social anthropology

1. Culture…

Sharp, Lauriston ([1952] 1968): «Steel axes for Stone Age Australians». In E. LeClair and H.K. Schneider (ed.) Economic Anthropology. Readings in Theory and Analysis. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. P. 181-194 (13)

Barth, Fredrik (1971): «Role Dilemmas and Father-Son Dominance in Middle Eastern Kinship Systems». In Francis L.K. Hsu (ed): Kinship and Culture, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company. P. 87-96 (10)

Berreman, Gerald D. (1962): «Behind Many Masks. Ethnography and Impression Management in an Himalayan Village». New York: Ithaca. Society for applied Anthropology, Monograph 4 (20).

Kopytoff, Igor (1986): «The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as a Process», In Arjun Appadurai (ed.): The Social Life of Things. Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. P.427 - 453 (27)

Lee, Richard ([1984] 1993): «Eating Christmas in the Kalahari» Appendix in The Dobe Ju/’hoansi. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace. P. 183-188 (6)

Geertz, Clifford 1972: “The Wet and the Dry: Traditional Irrigation in Bali and Morocco”. In Human Ecology 1972 (16).

2. Conflict

Argyrou, Vassos 1997: “Keep Cyprus Clean: Littering, Pollution and Otherness”. Cultural Anthropology 12 (2) p 159-178. (19).

Duffey, Tamara. 2 000. “Cultural Issues in Contemporary Peace Keeping”. I.T. Woodhous & O. Ramsbotham (eds.): Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution. London: Frank Cass Publishers, p. 142-168 (26).

Khalaf, Sulayman N. 1990. «Settlement of Violence in Beduin Society» Ethnology 29 (3): 225-242 (18).

Bateson, Gregory 1972: «Metalogue: Why do Things get in a Muddle?», «Metalogue: Why do Frenchmen?», «Cybernetic Explanation», «From Versailles to Cybernetics»: Steps to an Ecology of Mind». New York: Ballantine Books. P. 3-8, 9-13, 399-410 and 469-477 (32)

Gluckman, Max 1973: «The peace in the Feud». In Custom and Conflict in Africa. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. P. 1-26 (26)

Bax, Mart. 2000: «Barbarization of a Bosnian Pilgrimage Centre». In J.M. Halpern&D.A. Kideckel (eds.): Neighboors at War. Anthropological Perspectives on Yougoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. P. 187-202 (16).

Thaiss, Gustav. 1978: «The conceptualization of Social Change Through Metaphor.» Journal of African and Asian Studies 13: 1-13 (13)

Skalnìk, Peter 1999: «Authority Versus Power. A view From Social Anthropology». In Angela Carter (ed.): The Autority of Power. Empowerment and Disenpowerment. Asa Monographs 26, London: Routledge. P. 163-174 (12)

Sluka, Jeffrey A. 1996: «The Writing on the Wall. Peace Process Images, Symbols and Murals in Northern Ireland». Critique of Anthropology 16 (4) 281-287 (7)

Weine, Stevan M. 2000: «Redefining Merhamet After a historical Nightmare». In J.M. Halpern & D.A.Kideckel (eds.) .): Neighboors at War. Anthropological Perspectives on Yougoslav Ethnicity, Culture and History. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. P. 401-412 (12)

Farmer, Paul (1997) «On Suffering and Structural Violence: A view From Below». In Social Suffering. Ed. Kleinman, A., Das, V and Lock, M. University of California Press. Berkeley. P. 261-281. (21)

Rabinowitz, Dan (2000): «Postnational Palestine/Israel? Globalisation, Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict». In Critical Inquiry 26 (4): 757-772 (16)

Saugestad, Sidsel (1972): «The Two Sides of the House». In Cohen (ed.): Belonging,. Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures. P.131-164. Manchester University Press. (34).
Gluckman, Max 1960: “The Logic in Whichcraft”. In M. Gluckman: Custom and Conflict in Africa, Blasil Blackwell, Oxford. (15)

Nadel, Sigfried F. (1952) “Whichcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison”. American Anthropologist 1952 p.18-29 (12).

Duijzings, Ger. 2000. Introduction - Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. London: Hurst&Company (33).

Rappaport, Roy A 1967: “Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations Among a New Guinea People”. In Ecology, Meaning, and Religion. P.27-41. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books. (15).

Total = 418 pages

Religion, power and identity
Torjer A. Olsen – religion

Aho, James A. 1997: “The Apocalypse of Modernity”. I Thomas Robbins og Susan J. Palmer (red.): Millenium, Messiahs and Meyhem. Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements, s. 61-72. Routledge. New York/London.

Appleby, R. Scott 2000: “Religion and Conflict Transformation”. I The Ambivalence of the Sacred. Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation, s. 207-244. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. New York.

Juergensmeyer, Mark 2000: Terror in the Mind of God. The Global Rise of Religious Violence, s. 3-15. University of California Press. Los Angeles.

Kurtz, Lester 1995: “Religion and Social Conflict”. I Gods in the Global Village. The World’s Religions in Sociological Perspective, s. 211-240. Pine Forge Press. Thousand Oaks, CA.

Lincoln, Bruce 2003: Holy Terrors. Thinking about Religion after September 11. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 100 s.

Maybin, Janet 2001: “Language, Struggle and Voice: The Bakhtin/Volosinov Writings.” I Margaret Wetherell m.fl. (red.): Discourse Theory and Practice. A Reader, s. 64-71. SAGE. London.