Peter Paul Rubens, Peace and War (1629-30)
Peace, War, and Culture
Fall 2003
Reading Calendar (subject
to change with notice)
(Internet readings are at http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/peacereadings.html)
August 20 Introduction to class; News Assignments; Country Assignments
War and Violence and Their Origins
August 22 Tennyson, from
In Memorian (internet);
Thoreau, from Walden (internet);
Hobbes, from Leviathan (internet)
August 25 Freud (Barash
9-13); Lorenz (Barash 13-19);
August 27 Eibl-Eibesfeldt,
(Packet); Silke, “Becoming a Terrorist” (Packet)
August 29 Montagu (Packet);
Mead (Barash 19-23); UNESCO, The Seville Statement (internet)
September 1 LABOR DAY
September 3 Thucydides,
First Book, Peloponnesian Wars (internet);
Thucydides, Melian Controversy, Peloponnesian Wars (internet);
September 5 Von Clausewitz,
Chapters 1-3, On War (internet)
September 8 Kipling, "Tommy"
(internet);
Brooke, "1914" (internet);
Shakespeare, from Henry V (internet);
Nationalist Poetry (Barash 49-51)
September 10 Sumner (Barash
23-26); Tuchman (Barash 26-30)
September 12 Janis (Barash
30-36); Howard (Barash 36-42);
September 15 Galtung
(Barash 42-45); Boulding (Barash 45-49); Defense Monitor, “Militarism”
(Packet); BBC
Guide to the International Arms Trade
Limiting War and Effecting Negative Peace
September 17 O’Brien (Barash
80-85); Yoder, “Criteria” (Packet)
September 19 Chatfield/Ilukina,
“Just War” (Packet); Akbar (Packet);
September 22 Bartholomeusz,
“Sri Lankan Case” and “Just War Thinking” (Packet)
September 24 Elshtain “How
to Fight a Just War” (Packet); Silke, “Retaliating” (Packet)
September 26 Fisher/Ury
(Barash 70-76); Myrdal (Barash 85-90);
September 29 Kropotkin,"Mutual
Aid among Animals I" (Packet); James (Barash 65-70)
October 1 Barash (Barash
106-14); Goulding (Barash 114-22)
October 3 Kant (Barash 122-26);
Pope John XXIII, “Pacem in Teris” (Packet)
October 6 Chatfield/Ilukhina,
“Internationalism” (Packet)
October 8 United Nations,
"Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
involvement of children in armed conflict" (internet)
October 10 FALL BREAK
Positive Peace and Expansive Justice
October 13 Barber, “Democracy
and Terror” (Packet); Leopold (Barash 131-38);
October 15 Hardin, “The
Case Against Helping the Poor” (Packet); Harrington, “Socialism” (Packet);
Brecht “Questions from a Worker Who Reads” (Packet)
October 17 Friere (Barash
138-44); King (Barash 144-49)
October 20 Barash (Barash
149-58); United Nations, "Universal Declaration on Human Rights" (internet);
United Nations, "Convention on the Rights of the Child" (internet)
October 22 United Nations,
"INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS" (internet);
Bigelow, “Ladakh” (Packet)
October 24 Oxfam (Barash
158-65); Aristide, “Globalization” (Packet);
October 27 Parenti, “Myths”
(Packet); Somers, “Debt” (Packet); “Ten Arguments” (Packet)
October 29 Bigelow, “Lives
behind the Labels” (Packet); Newbery, “Rethinking Child Labor” (Packet)
October 31 Shiva, “Stealing
Nature’s Harvest” (Packet); Shiva, “Relocalization” (Packet)
Religious Perspectives on Peace, War, and Justice
November 3 Bhagavad Gita
(Barash 203-04); Bhagavad Gita (internet);
purely for fun, see the Belief
System Indicator
November 5 Aryasura’s Aspiration
(internet);
The Bodhisattva (Packet); Thich Nhat Hanh (Barash 204-09)
November 7 Numbers 31: 1-54;
Deuteronomy 2: 24-37, 3: 1-7; Deuteronomy 31: 1-8; Deuteronomy 7, 20, 21;Joshua
8: 1-29; Joshua 10: 1-43; BBCi: Ethics of War -- Judaism (internet)
November 10 The Old Testament
(Barash 211-13); Isaiah 2: 1-22; Isaiah 11:1-16 (internet);
November 12 The New Testament
(Barash 213-14); Muste (Barash 214-17); Merton (Barash 217-19)
November 14 Koran Readings
(internet)
Nonviolence
November 17 Thoreau (Barash
171-76)
November 19 Camus (Barash
181-84)
November 21 Gandhi (Barash
184-91)
November 24 Sharp (Barash
191-97)
November 26 THANKSGIVING/
BREAK
November 28 THANKSGIVING/
BREAK
Peace Movements and Visions
December 1 Boulding (Barash
237-42)
December 3 Havel (Barash
257-62)
December 5 H. H. Dalai Lama,
“Nobel Peace Prize Speech” (Packet)