Ikeda Yasumitsu and Ikeda Chieko, "Survivors Seeking Water at the River," published in A Record of the Atomic Bomb. The caption reads, "In the hell of the sea of fire, people were helpless. They saw their 15-month-old eldest son burn to death. His corpse was found one week later."
War, Violence, and Their Origins
Tennyson,
from In Memoriam (printable
.rtf)
Thoreau,
"Brute Neighbors" from Walden (printable
.rtf)
Hobbes,
Thomas, Leviathan, Chapter XIII, "Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as
Concerning Their Felicity and Misery" (printable
.rtf)
William
Hogarth, "The Four Stages of Cruelty"
UNESCO:
Seville Statement
Thucydides,
The
History of the Peloponnesian War, The First Book (431 b.c.e.)
Thucydides,
The
History of the Peloponnesian War, The Melian Controversy (431 b.c.e.)
Thucydides,
The
History of the Peloponnesian War, Pericles' Funeral Oration (431 b.c.e.)
Von
Clausewitz, Carl, On War, 1832, trans. J.J. Graham (N. Trubner: London,
1873), Book I, Chapter I ("What Is War?").
Von
Clausewitz, Carl, On War, 1832, trans. J.J. Graham (N. Trubner: London,
1873), Book I, Chapter II ("End and Means in War").
Von
Clausewitz, Carl, On War, 1832, trans. J.J. Graham (N. Trubner: London,
1873), Book I, Chapter III ("The Genius for War").
Shakespeare,
Harfleur speech from Henry V (printable
.rtf)
Shakespeare,
Crispin's Day speech from Henry V (printable
.rtf)
Kipling,
"Tommy"
Brooke,
"1914" (printable
.rtf)
Picasso,
Guernica, 1937, Oil on canvas, Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Picasso,
Sketch for Guernica, Pencil, Reina Sofia, Madrid
Rubens,
Allegory of the Outbreak of War, 1638, Oil on canvas, Pitti Gallery, Florence.
Ikeda,
Seeking Water at the River, in A Record of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima
Britten,
War Requiem text with sound clips
Christian
Science Monitor, Perspectives on Terrorism
Limiting War and Effecting Negative Peace
Positive Peace and Justice
Christian
Science Monitor, At the Heart of Hunger in Africa
United
Nations, "Universal Declaration on Human Rights"
United
Nations, "Convention on the Rights of the Child"
United
Nations, "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
on the involvement of children in armed conflict"
United
Nations, "INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS"
Brecht,
Questions from a Worker Who Reads
Religious Perspectives on War, Peace, and Justice
Religions
Galtung,
Johan, "Religions, Hard and Soft," Cross Currents Vol. 47, No. 4
(Winter 1997-98)
BBCi:
World Religions
Hinduism
War
in Ancient India
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Hinduism
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter
1, Chapter
2, Chapter
3
Buddhism
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Buddhism
Aryasura's
Aspiration (Mahayana)
P.
D. Premasiri, "The Place for a Righteous War in Buddhism" (Theraveda)
"Buddha
stopping the two armies from going to war over the water of the Rohini
River" (The Life of Buddha in Pictures, Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple,
Penang, Malaysia)
Judaism and Christian Old
Testament
Numbers
31: 1-54
Deuteronomy
2: 24-37
Deuteronomy
3: 1-7
Deuteronomy
7, 20, 21
Deuteronomy
31: 1-8
Joshua
8: 1219
Joshua
10: 1-43
Isaiah
2: 1-22
Isaiah
11: 1-16
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Judaism
Christianity
Matthew
5, 6, 7: The Sermon on the Mount
Matthew
26: 36-58
The
Epistle of Saint James
The
Apocalypse of Saint John 12
The
Apocalypse of Saint John 19
Office
for Social Justice, Catholic Social Justice Teachings
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Christianity
Christianity and Islam
Lampman,
Jane, "Morality and War," The Christian Science Monitor (October
11, 2001)
Islam
Koran
Passages on War
Hashmi,
Sohail H., "Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Peace," Islamic
Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2001).
"Jihad
in Islam," Submission.org
Johnson,
James Turner, "Jihad and Just War," First Things 124 (June/July
2002): 12-14.
"War
and Peace in Islam," Islam at School, Islamatschool.org.uk
"What
Does Islam Say About War?" Discover Islam 23, DiscoverIslam.com
Harun
Yahya, The Pacifism of Islam
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Islam
Sikhism
BBCi:
Ethics of War -- Sikhism
Nonviolence
Gandhi
Today: Satyagraha
Center
for Global Nonviolence Publications
Nonviolence
Works, Nonviolent Action Handbook
Epstein,
"A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights"
Thich
Nhat Hanh, "The First Precept: Reverence for Life"
Rosemary
Amey, "Animal Rights and the Dhammapada"
Other Peace Studies Resources
Oxford
Virtual Seminars: British Poets of World War I
University
of Colorado Peace Studies Page
World
Bank: Literature of Poverty Collection
Sierra
Leone Resources
CIA
Factbook
World
Newspapers Online