...Robert E. Lerner Zachary Karabell, Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence (New York: Knopf, 2007), 343 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New...

...Richard Ned Lebow This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” argues that the drive for self-esteem, achieved by gaining honor or standing, has been a root cause of violent conflict and war throughout history and that peace-making that does not take account of what...

...Mordechai Bar-On David Shulman, Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 236 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York...

...Caryl Emerson © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews WAR AND PEACE, LIFE AND FATE Caryl Emerson Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, trans. Robert Chandler (1960; New York: New York Review of Books, 2006), 871 pp...

...—“territoriality” and “compensation”—have structured both the violent conflicts discussed and subsequent attempts at peace restoration. The essay concludes with a brief anthropological discussion of the relationship between ontology and politics. Whereas recent theorizations of Amazonian cosmic economies...

...Gary Saul Morson Despite their professed multiculturalism, educated Americans find it hard to imagine that others do not share their liberal values. Does not everyone love their children and want peace? The author of the article, a Tolstoy scholar and student of Russian culture, discusses topics...

...Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz Duke University Press 2005 Sym p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 PEACE WITHOUT CONCILIATION The Irrelevance of “Toleration” in Judaism Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz The interactions that are possible between Jews and non...

...Randy Malamud Saleem H. Ali, ed., Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 406 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove, 2006...

...René Descartes © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 CODA GÉNÉRALE THE BIRTH OF PEACE René Descartes Translated and with an afterword by André Gombay AT 5, 616 Ballet Danced in Stockholm’s Royal Palace...

... presence in the Holy Land (1097 – 1291). Explored here is how each party overcame this incongruity between ideology and praxis and sought a “small peace,” which is temporary and practical, rather than “great peace,” which is a final settlement. Features of these peace-making efforts examined here include...

...Jehangir Yezdi Malegam Oppositional constructions of peace and war and simplistic equations of peace with justice obscure the importance of activities primarily geared toward the limitation of harm. The medieval and patristic legacy of thinking with peace restricts peace to variants of a singular...

...Lindsay Diggelmann As is well known, marriage was frequently employed as an instrument of diplomatic policy in premodern Europe. Dynastic leaders used the marriages of their own family members to create or confirm alliances with other ruling houses. Peace was often the aim and the outcome...

...Jeffrey M. Perl This essay review is focused on Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart's book Peace-Making and the Imagination: Papua New Guinea Perspectives but also discusses in some detail other ethnographic and historical works. The reviewer finds that, in every case of peacemaking in Papua New...

...Johan M. G. van der Dennen This monograph-length contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means” reviews and assesses the state of ethnographic and political scholarship concerning how nonstate, tribal societies deal with peacemaking and peacekeeping. A central argument...

... to face to express the general will, has never had the same impact in the anthropological imagination as that of the “noble savage.” Thematically, these case studies raise the question of how peace is made and suggest that, while peacemaking demands “magic,” the invocation of extrahuman powers, the social...

... is “good to think” through the question of peace. This article divides roughly into two parts, the first concentrating on Xinguan sorcery, and the second on their knowledge politics. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Xingu pacifism sorcery knowledge politics...

...Caleb Thompson Tolstoy writes in a letter to his friend A. A. Fet that what he has written in War and Peace , “especially in the epilogue,” is also said by Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Representation . Tolstoy adds, however, that Schopenhauer approaches “it from the other side...

... their rejection of war, that their logic is “good to think” through the question of peace. This article divides roughly into two parts, the first concentrating on Xinguan sorcery, and the second on their knowledge politics. Copyright © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 Xingu pacifism sorcery knowledge...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Dennis Marie , ed., Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence , with a preamble by Pope Francis ( Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books , 2018 ), 256 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 2 Marie Dennis, ed...