Publication of the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change,
an interorganizational project of the Organization Development Institute

MEDIA NOTES

(limited listing: see the spring and fall issues for extensive Media Notes)

Conciliation Resources' Accord programme has just published the 15th issue in our Accord series, "From military peace to social justice? The Angolan peace process" is available on line at no charge at: http://www.c-r.org/accord/ang/accord15, or can be ordered in hard copy, as can the other issues in the series and Accord policy papers, including, "From military peace to social justice? Lessons from the Angolan peace process and the ongoing post-conflict challenges" (on line at: http://www.c-r.org/accord/ang/policy.shtml (English) and http://www.c-r.org/accord/ang/policyPT.shtml (Portuguese)). A report of the 2004 joint analysis workshop: Engaging Armed Groups in Peace Processes is also available for free on line, or in print for $8. To order in hard copy, contact Conciliation Resources, 173 Upper street, London N1 1RG, UK, Tel+44 (0)20 7 359 7728, http://www.c-r.org/accord/order/index.shtml or e-mail us on accord@c-r.org

Susan Skog, Peace in Our Lifetime: Insights from the World's Peacemakers shows how peace is created, personally and globally through the lives and lessons of 50 exceptional peacemakers working in horrific war zones and high-conflict areas. The volume can be ordered at: http://www.susanskog.

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Healing Israel/Palestine: A Path to Peace and Reco nciliation is available from Tikkun Books. Dennis Ross. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace is published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Gadi Wolfsfeld, Media and the Path to Peace is available from Cambridge University Press.

The Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research and analysis, focusing on the current issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world. Social progress requires, among other things, sustained intellectual work, which should be pragmatic as well as analytical. The task of the journal is to present the results of this research and thinking in short, accessible and substantive essays. Peace Review Home Page: http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/index.htm

Social Justice in Context , A Publication of The Carolyn Freeze Baynes Institute for Social Justice, an international forum for addressing ideas and innovations in pursuit of ethical social relations within and among societies, will begin publishing in Mid-2005, to stimulate thought, study, and practice that advance its cause. For information contact W. David Harrison, Editor, Social Justice in Context, Carolyn Freeze Baynes Institute for Social Justice, East Carolina University, College of Human Ecology, Greenville NC 27858 (252)328-1445 harrisonw@mail.ecu.edu

USEFUL WEB SITES

The Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East , a publication of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), seeks to provide an ongoing link among non-governmental cooperative efforts in the Middle East. It is available via E-mail. For a free subscription to the Bulletin of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East and to the Common Ground News Service, E-mail as follows:Subscribe-cgnews@lists.sfcg.org (English), Subscribe-cgnewsarabic@lists.sfcg.org (Arabic); Subscribe-cgnewshebrew@lists.sfcg.org (Hebrew). Search for Common Ground in the Middle East (Jerusalem offices) are at 26, Heleni Hamalka Street, 95101 Musrara, Jerusalem, Israel. For international mail: Search for Common Ground in the Middle East, 83 Nablus Road, Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Israel.

Bitterlemons.org is a website that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent is-sues of concern. It focuses on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace processes as well as a variety of topics affecting the Middle East with the goal of contributing to mutual understand-ng through the open exchange of ideas. Each weekly edition, addressing a specific issue of controversy, is posted on the website. Readers can obtain a free subscription by entering their email address in the space provided on the homepage: http://www.bitterlemons.org as well as www.bitterlemons-international.org, for their new "Middle East Roundtable".

Global Beat , has been an excellent source of information and further sources for Nonviolent Change , at: http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat. Global Beat also has an E-mail list serve.