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  1. Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
  2. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2006
    Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
  3. Buda's Wagon
    A Brief History of the Car Bomb
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  4. Canada, Politics and Direct Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
  5. The Challenge to Violence
    New Internationalist, August 2005 - #381
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
  6. Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Why are some men violent?
  7. Disaster and Mental Health
    The Palestinian Experience

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    Trauma in Gaza under Israeli military occupation is both direct and indirect, nad has severe and ongoing consequences.
  8. Drawing the Line
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  9. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  10. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
  11. Moral Panic
    Biopolitics Rising
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
  12. No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  13. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  14. The Seventh Fire
    The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Written by a Toronto Star editor this book describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
  15. The Social Organization of Family Violence:
    An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
  16. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  17. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  18. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.

Experts on Violence in the Sources Directory

  1. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
  2. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
  3. Covenant House
  4. Ontario Public Health Association
  5. Simon Fraser University
  6. Sistering: A Woman's Place
  7. University of Winnipeg

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