Wiley: Peace & Change: Table of Contents

American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent. By Ralph Young, New York: New York University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐982652‐0

Scott H. Bennett — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:14:39 -0700

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Pacifism and Non‐Violence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy: Mapping the Paths of Peace. By Tom Woerner‐Powell, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 276 pp. $120.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐957398‐6

Josef Waleed Meri — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:58:54 -0700

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Justifying Utopia: A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815–1873). By Wouter De Rycke, Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2025. 579 pp. €182.00/$198.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐9‐00‐473364‐0

Peter van den Dungen — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:56:19 -0700

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Waging Peace: A History of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. By Mitchell K. Hall, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 450 pp. $45.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐964326‐9

Michael Koncewicz — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:00:12 -0700

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Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. By Olga Touloumi, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 312 pp. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐51‐791333‐5

Manish Jung Pulami — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:35:04 -0700

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Seven Social Movements That Changed America. By Linda Gordon, New York: W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2025. 515 pp. $39.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1631493713

Paul Adlerstein — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:27:07 -0700

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Those Who Stayed: A Vietnam Diary. By Claudia Krich, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025. 304 pp. $34.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐81‐395235‐2

Sarah King — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:19:17 -0700

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Forgotten Pain: An Untold Story of the Korean War. By Eun Yong Chung. Translated by Won Kwang Paik, Mt. Pleasant, MI: Cora di Brazzà Foundation, 2025. 336 pp. $39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 979‐8‐21‐863262‐5

Sahr Conway‐Lanz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:15:13 -0700

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Bertha von Suttner auf Reisen. Postkarten an Haushälterin und Hund. Mit 240 Abbildungen. [Bertha von Suttner on Her Travels: Postcards to Her Housekeeper and Dog]. By Georg Hamann, Vienna: Amalthea, 2025. 222 pp. €30.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐3‐99‐050290‐7

Peter van den Dungen — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:09:50 -0700

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F*ck the Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War. By Lindsay Goss. New York: New York University Press, 2024. 240 pp. $30.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐982860

Ryan J. Kirkby — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:44:22 -0700

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Women, Peace and Security (WPS) in US Security Cooperation. Edited by Susan Yoshihara. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025. 287 pp. $115.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐8‐89‐616332‐9

Sandra Biskupski‐Mujanovic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:47:00 -0700

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Issue Information

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 75-78, April 2026.

Central America in the Crosshairs of War: On the Road From Vietnam to IraqBy Scott Wallace, Staunton, VA: George F. Thompson Publishing, 2025. 192 pp. $40.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐96‐052101‐9

Molly Todd — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 128-129, April 2026.

Living With Agent Orange: Conversations in Postwar Vietnam. By Diane Niblack Fox. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2024. 208 pp. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐62‐534747‐3

Uyen H. “Carie” Nguyen — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 130-132, April 2026.

Two Women, One War: An Unlikely Friendship During the Vietnam War. By Jane Barton Griffith. Virginia Beach, VA: Koehler Books, 2025. 224 pp. $17.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐8‐88‐824611‐5

An Thuy Nguyen — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 137-139, April 2026.

Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967–1973. By Martin J. Murray. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2025. 472 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐57‐44‐1981‐8

Seth Kershner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 140-142, April 2026.

Protest and Policy in the Iraq, Nuclear Freeze and Vietnam Peace Movements. By David Cortright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 67 pp. $23.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐964024‐4

Roger Peace — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 143-144, April 2026.

Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees From Nazi Germany. By Rebecca Brenner Graham. New York: Citadel Press, 2025. 328 pp. $29.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐80‐654317‐8

Melissa R. Klapper — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 145-146, April 2026.

Pax Economica: Left‐Wing Visions of a Free Trade World. By Marc‐William Palen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0691277882

Deborah Buffton — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 147-149, April 2026.

Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family: From Vietnam to Today. By Craig McNamara. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2023. 273 pp. $18.99 (Paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐31‐628233‐8

Matthew Loayza — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 150-152, April 2026.

Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World. By Thant Myint‐U. New York: W.W. Norton, 2025. 368 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐32‐405197‐8

Lubna Z. Qureshi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 153-155, April 2026.

The Peace Script: Framing Violence in US Anti‐War Dissent. By Dominic J. Manthey. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2025. 223 pp. $34.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐0‐81‐736218‐8

Charles F. Howlett — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 133-136, April 2026.

Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace

Suchintan Das — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has received scant scholarly attention, however, is his role as a key voice of the Indian peace movement after Independence and a crucial liaison between Indian peace activists and the Soviet-aligned world peace movement in the 1950s. Kosambi's politics, characterized both by his association with the undivided Communist Party of India and his arm's-length collaboration with the Government of India, afforded him a unique semi-official, fellow-traveling position to argue for nuclear disarmament and protest wars of aggression. This paper would argue that he consciously refused to be co-opted by either post-colonial nationalism or conformist international communism to advance an Asia-centric perspective on world peace that has now been largely occluded from mainstream accounts of post-war pacifism. This paper would also argue that by leveraging a now-forgotten infrastructure of transnational peace advocacy and interlocking circuits of activism at the local and national levels, Kosambi effectively foregrounded and vernacularized his own ideas of world peace premised on principled non-interventionism. Through a close reading of his extant essays, reports, speeches, and correspondence throughout the 1950s, I would posit that Kosambi's vision for world peace was imbued with a third-world internationalist sensibility that squarely located the roots of warfare in world hunger and structures of imperialism. In so doing, he went far beyond the Afro-Asian promise of the Bandung Conference (1955) when it came to arguing for what is now called ‘South–South solidarity.’ I further contend that, through his dutiful and maverick peace activism (prior to disillusionment in the 1960s) and increasingly radical critique of nuclear energy, Kosambi also anticipated several talking points of the Non-Aligned Movement, especially those that would only come to the fore in the Belgrade Summit (1961).

Unmuting the Voice of Strong‐Minded Christians: Bible Student Conscientious Objectors in World War I USA

Gary Perkins — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

Commentaries on the World War I history of the International Bible Students Association (IBSA) in their USA homeland usually feature decisions made by the movement's leadership and their subsequent arrest and prosecution for violating the Espionage Act and interfering with conscription. In so doing, these neglect the enthusiastic support and voices of IBSA adherents. In contrast, Zoe Knox has suggested that the voices of ordinary Bible Students who suffered as a result of their anti-war convictions also need to be uncovered. This study unmutes the voices of IBSA conscientious objectors (COs) and proposes that their experiences were profoundly significant in shaping the IBSA/Jehovah's Witness peace testimony over the following century.

Putting the CIA on Trial: The Rise and Fall of Anti‐Recruiting Protests in the 1980s

Seth Kershner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

In the history of the Central America Solidarity movement, there is little more than passing reference to the role played by college students. This omission is in keeping with the dominant narrative around student protest in the Reagan era, which stresses rupture with past forms of activism. According to this account, in the Eighties apathy replaced activism as the dominant mood on campus. Excavating the history of such activism on the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts complicates this narrative, highlighting how CIA recruiting on campus provided students with an issue to rally around that targeted the secretive agency's role in Central American “dirty wars,” as well as the university's own complicity in the carnage. Besides situating anti-CIA activism in the broader social and political context of the 1980s, this paper also explores how students borrowed from, expanded upon, and sometimes diverged from two key organizing strategies used by their activist forebears: anti-recruiting protests and political trials.

Resistant Bodies: Gender and the Hunger Strike in Modern American History

Victoria W. Wolcott — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

This essay examines the gendered legacy of the hunger strike in modern American history, first in the trans-Atlantic suffrage movement and then in the linked pacifist and civil rights movements. Hunger strikes were integral to resisting patriarchal and racist power structures in twentieth-century America, both within the prison system and in the larger society. However, the origins of the modern hunger strike in the suffrage movement have been largely obscured. Instead, the starving Irish nationalist Bobby Sands or the fasting image of Gandhi dominates our image of the hunger striker. In the mid-twentieth-century male pacifists such as Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger gain notoriety for their wartime hunger strikes. However, radical women also protested militarism and white supremacy and carried out dramatic hunger strikes during the cold war. Contemporary political prisoners continue to practice the embodied resistance of these pioneering activists.

Kent State: An American Tragedy. By Brian VanDeMark. New York: W.W. Norton, 2024. 416 pp. $19.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐32‐411685‐1

Thomas Weyant — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

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The 1969 “Greek Case” in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human Rights. By Kostis Kornetis, Victor Fernández Soriano, Kristina Kjaersgaard, Nicolas Manitakis, Alexandros Nafpliotis, and Anna Papaeti, editors. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. 312 pp. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐35‐029657‐2

Barbara J. Keys — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:04:49 -0700

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The League of Nations. By Joseph Maiolo and Laura Robson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements Series), 2025. 98 pages. $23.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐951412‐5. Available open access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/league‐of‐nations/C2B80C695E00F6DEA7A274521BFB552D

Emil Eiby Seidenfaden — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0700

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Teaching Peace and Conflict Studies: Engaged Learning and Inclusive Theory. By Susan F. Hirsch and Agnieszka Paczyńska. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 238 pages. $45.45 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐535301‐9

Joanna Swanger — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:27:06 -0800

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Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement. By Jon Coburn. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2025. 266 Pages. $34.95 (Paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐62‐534887‐6

Andrew J. Ross — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:00:34 -0800

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From Tension to Tolerance: A Peacebuilding Approach for Yoruba Religious Conflicts in Nigeria

Adeolu Ojedokun — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:44:18 -0800

ABSTRACT

Religious conflict in Yoruba-speaking Nigeria has historically been rare, yet since 1999, tensions among Muslims, Christians, and traditionalists have intensified in places like Ilorin, Iwo, and Ogbomoso. This paper investigates these emerging frictions and proposes a Hybrid Yoruba Peacebuilding Model that merges indigenous conflict resolution—such as elder mediation and kinship solidarity—with interfaith dialogue rooted in Islamic, Christian, and traditional values. Drawing on secondary sources and key theories from Lederach, Appleby, Korostelina, Abu-Nimer, Gopin, and Galtung, the study analyzes post-1999 conflict cases to show how cultural and religious practices can be harmonized to foster sustainable peace. The model emphasizes grassroots reconciliation, inclusive leadership, and structural reform. This study advances the field of religious peacebuilding by offering a culturally embedded, transdisciplinary framework that moves beyond faith-specific interventions. It demonstrates how African indigenous practices can meaningfully complement theological models of peace in pluralized societies.

Islamic Feminism and Peacebuilding in Bangsamoro: Redefining Women's Empowerment Beyond Liberal Norms

Haironesah Domado — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:05:33 -0800

ABSTRACT

This article examines Islamic feminism as a culturally grounded framework for women's empowerment and peacebuilding in post-conflict Bangsamoro, Philippines. Global empowerment frameworks tend to prioritize individual autonomy and universal gender equality but often overlook the sociocultural and religious contexts shaping women's lived experiences. In contrast, Islamic feminism, understood as a reformist discourse grounded in the reinterpretation of Islamic texts and principles, offers a locally grounded approach that enables Bangsamoro women to collectively assert agency, negotiate leadership, and engage in strategic alliances with male religious authorities while remaining rooted in faith and community. The study employs a mixed-methods design, combining desk-based literature review with qualitative data from online interviews and a focus group discussion. The findings reveal that religious legitimacy, collective action, and collaborative alliances are central to women's empowerment, contributing to localized peacebuilding efforts such as conflict mediation, social cohesion, and the strengthening of moral authority in the community. This article argues that Islamic feminism presents a viable alternative to Western empowerment models, offering a more inclusive and contextually relevant framework for advancing gender equality in post-conflict Muslim societies. It contributes to feminist peacebuilding scholarship by foregrounding localized, faith-informed, and collaborative approaches to empowerment that reshape conventional understandings of women's leadership and gender justice.

Preference for Traditional Institutions: Preventing Escalation of Conflicts?

Awet Halefom Kahsay — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:34:00 -0700

ABSTRACT

The literature shows that many Africans prefer going to traditional institutions when a conflict arises. On the question “why the preference for traditional institutions” fostering peace seems the acceptable and dominant version of all for preferring traditional institutions over state institutions. However, literature does not neatly answer the elements of peace that these traditional institutions are bring about. Taking Gereb traditional institutions this article found out that the Gerebs are preventing conflicts before its escalation. Particularly, they are preventing revenge in a community where the culture of honor and shame has paramount importance to coexist socially.