Passion for Peace: Exercising Power CreativelyIn a dark and pessimistic time, A Passion for Peace is a timely and uplifting work. Written in an engaging and optimistic style, combining poetry and prose, this book is both practical and philosophical, showing how a creative use of power can contribute to peace with justice in any context or country. |
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Contents
Time is Running Out Oodgeroo Noonuccal 103 | 8 |
List of poems quoted | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 16 |
Chapter 1 | 25 |
Making a Start with Ourselves | 33 |
Making Peace Denise Levertov | 37 |
Instead of an Afterword Anna Akhmatova | 49 |
Boris Pasternak Anna Akhmatova | 80 |
Barking at the Thunder Les Murray | 110 |
Blessed is the Man Marianne Moore | 125 |
Bread of the People Bertolt Brecht | 132 |
Peace Conference Stuart Rees | 151 |
Chapter 6 | 159 |
Human Rights | 186 |
Chapter 8 | 213 |
Select Bibliography 291 | 222 |
The Seasons Have Changed Dag Hammarskjöld | 92 |
Hoping for Magic Ekaterina Shevelyova | 99 |
Two Dreamtimes Judith Wright | 103 |
Redefining Sovereignty | 258 |
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