April Carter has lectured in politics at the universities of Lancaster, Oxford and Queensland, and was a fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. She is currently an honorary research fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, and a senior editor on the international editoral board for the "International Encyclopedia of Peace." Howard Clark was an English nonviolent activist and independent peace researcher. He was the chairperson of War Resisters' International, having previously been its coordinator, and was a research fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, where he was responsible for the Centre s project on Unarmed Resistance: the Transnational Factor. He is the author of "Civil Resistance in Kosovo." Michael Randle has been involved in the antiwar movement in Britain since the 1950s and in 1958 was one of the organizers of the first Aldermaston March against Britain s nuclear weapons. A former chairperson of the War Resisters International, and subsequently coordinator of the Alternative Defence Commission, he has been a visiting research fellow at the department of peace studies at the University of Bradford. Paul Rogers teaches at the department of peace studies at University of Bradford and has written or edited 26 books and over 100 papers, much of which has been translated into many languages. He writes a weekly analysis on international security for www.opendemocracy.net which is reproduced on 40+ websites."
"The editors have done a tremendous service to the field with this
wide-ranging, insightful, informative guide." Brian Martin,
"Journal of Peace Research""
What really comes across is the sheer range of examples contained
within this bibliography. It is extraordinarily impressive, taking
us through the campaigns in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union at
the end of the Cold War, the earlier actions in late colonial
Africa, campaigns of nonviolent resistance in Latin America and the
Middle East and the growing number of 'electoral revolutions' since
2000, especially in post Soviet states and Africa, and the
burgeoning resistance to repression in various forms. Paul Rogers,
from the foreword"
"What really comes across is the sheer range of examples contained
within this bibliography. It is extraordinarily impressive, taking
us through the campaigns in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union at
the end of the Cold War, the earlier actions in late colonial
Africa, campaigns of nonviolent resistance in Latin America and the
Middle East and the growing number of 'electoral revolutions' since
2000, especially in post Soviet states and Africa, and the
burgeoning resistance to repression in various forms." --Paul
Rogers, from the foreword
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