VETERANS’ PEACE ORGANIZATIONS

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Veterans for Peace

https://www.veteransforpeace.org/

About Face:  Veterans Against the War (formerly "Iraq Veterans Against the War")

https://aboutfaceveterans.org/

Military Families Speak Out

http://www.militaryfamiliesspeakout.com/


PEACE ORGANIZATIONS

 

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

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http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/

Christian Peacemaker Teams

https://www.cpt.org/

Code Pink:  Women for Peace

http://www.codepink.org

Jewish Voice for Peace

https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

Mennonite Central Committee

https://mcc.org/

Peace Action

https://www.peaceaction.org/

Peace Brigades International

https://www.peacebrigades.org/

Peaceful tomorrows

http://peacefultomorrows.org/

United for Peace and Justice

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

Quakers:  Religious Society of Friends

http://www.quaker.org/

War Resisters League

https://www.warresisters.org/

Women in black

http://womeninblack.org/

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

https://wilpf.org/


RECOMMENDED BOOKS ON WAR AND PEACE

 

Andrew J. Bacevich 2016. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. New York: Random House.

 

John Bodnar 2010. The “Good War” in American memory. Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Smedley D. Butler 2003 (1935) War is a Racket. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House.

 

David Cortright 2005 (1975) Soldiers in revolt: GI resistance during the Vietnam War. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

 

Bruce Cumings 2010. The Korean War: A history. New York: Modern Library.

 

Cynthia Enloe 2000. Maneuvers: The international politics of militarizing women’s lives. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

J. Glenn Gray 1959. The warriors: Reflections on men in battle. New York: Harper & Row.

 

Dave Grossman 2009. On killing: The psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society. New York: Back Bay Books.

 

Hugh Gusterson 2016. Drone: Remote control warfare. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

Maxine Hong Kingston, ed. 2006. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. U.S.A.: Koa Books.

 

Jonathan W. Hutto 2008. Antiwar soldier: How to dissent within the ranks of the military. Nation Books.

 

Iraq Veterans Against the War & Aaron Glantz 2008. Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness accounts of the occupations. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

 

Chalmers Johnson 2004. Blowback: The costs and consequences of American empire. New York: Henry Holt.

 

Jerry Lembcke 1998. The Spitting Image: Myth, memory, and the legacy of Vietnam. New York University Press.

 

Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016. Nothing ever dies: Vietnam and the memory of war. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press

 

Wilson M. Powell & Ming-Fu Zhou 2000. Two walk the golden road: Two soldiers, two cultures, their histories intertwined. Mahoment, IL: Mayhaven Publishing.

 

John Tirman 2011. The deaths of others: The fate of civilians in America’s wars. Oxford University Press.

 

Nick Turse 2013. Kill anything that moves: The real American War in Vietnam. New York: Picador.

 

Howard Zinn 2003. A people’s history of the United States. New York: Harper Perrenial.