Table of Contents

Foreword: ending war, building peace
Lynda-ann Blanchard and Leah Chan
Contributors
Introduction: thinking war, crafting peace – a future for Iraq and civil liberties in Australia
Stuart Rees

Part 1: the fascination with violence
1. The venerated and unexamined violence in everyday life
Michael McKinley
2. Iraq, six years on: the human consequences of a dirty war
Richard Hil
3. The human and environmental costs of the Iraq and other wars
Sue Wareham
4. Spectacles of honour: barbarism within civilised reactions to public killings
Sandra Phelps
5. The US invasion and occupation of Iraq and the implications for the Middle East: instability and the unravelling of US hegemony
Noah Bassil

Part 2: nonviolent alternatives
6. Between Iraq and a hard place
Michael Otterman
7. Coalition of the unwilling: the phenomenology and political economy of US militarism
Jake Lynch
8. Disarmament, demobilisation and rehabilitation: the pacifist dilemma
Isezaki Kenji
9. The campaign against US military bases in Australia
Hannah Middleton
10. The road to Fallujah
Donna Mulhearn
11. The floating peace village: an experiment in nonviolence
Yoshioka Tatsuya

Afterword: learning and doing – the genesis of CPACS
Mary Lane
Index

Promotional Information

Ending War, Building Peace examines the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and explores how we can prevent it from being repeated.

About the Author

Lynda-ann Blanchard is an honorary associate at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney.

Leah Chan is the Civil Affairs Officer at the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan.

Reviews

‘It is impossible to read [this book] … without being struck by the futility of war generally and, in the case of Iraq, the failure of the international community properly to consider non-violent alternatives to conflict.’
*Sydney Morning Herald*