Voting in Fear
Title | Voting in Fear PDF eBook |
Author | Dorina Akosua Oduraa Bekoe |
Publisher | United States Institute of Peace Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781601271365 |
Nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa; investigate the forms electoral violence takes; and analyze the factors that precipitate, reduce, and prevent violence. The book breaks new ground with findings from the only known dataset of electoral violence in sub-Saharan Africa, spanning 1990 to 2008. Specific case studies of electoral violence in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria provide the context to further understanding the circumstances under which electoral violence takes place, recedes, or recurs.
Teaching Peace
Title | Teaching Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Colman McCarthy |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2015-02-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0826520405 |
To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those students have faithfully kept in touch with McCarthy, often with handwritten letters, and he has answered them with the same seriousness he brought to his columns and books. The exchanges rise to a rare kind of literature that blends personal warmth, intellectual honesty, and shared idealism. The discussions range from peace and war to a host of other issues of social justice, such as the death penalty, human rights, poverty, the living wage, animal rights, and vegetarianism. The wide-ranging letters suggest how teacher and students co-create a world of more love and less hate.
Approval Voting
Title | Approval Voting PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Brams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Voting for Peace
Title | Voting for Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Terrence Lyons |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0815721099 |
Elections have been used as a mechanism to institutionalize a new political order following internal conflict in Cambodia, El Salvador, Angola, Mozambique, Bosnia, and now Liberia. This book analyzes the Liberian transition and the July 1997 elections in order to better understand the relationship between war termination and transitions to democracy and the role post-conflict elections play in promoting both of these goals. The Liberian elections represented the final stage of a seven-year, West African-led peace process. An overwhelming majority voted for former factional leader Charles Taylor in the belief that if Taylor did not win, war would erupt again. The Liberian transition demonstrates that post-conflict elections may play an important role in a process of war termination. In many cases, it may be necessary to move forward with war termination and "imperfect" elections in the short run and pursue goals relating to democratization after the new government has been put in place. This study uses a detailed examination of the difficult Liberian case to highlight the more general challenges of helping countries make the transition from civil conflict and authoritarian rule to peace and democracy. Studies in Foreign Policy
Bread and Peace Voting in the U.S. Presedential Elections
Title | Bread and Peace Voting in the U.S. Presedential Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Hibbs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2000 |
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Gateway to Peace - Concurrent Voting
Title | Gateway to Peace - Concurrent Voting PDF eBook |
Author | William Crocker |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Peace |
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Bread and Peace Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections
Title | Bread and Peace Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Hibbs (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2000 |
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