Give Peace a Chance: Preventing Mass Violence
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (780 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612051391 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dr. Hamburg, M.D., is DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar at Weill Cornell Medical College. He was the founder of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. Hamburg was a member of President Clinton's Defense Policy Board and the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. . He cochaired with former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict. He is currently chairing two distinguished parallel committees at the United Nations and European Union on the prevention of genocide, reporting to Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon, and Javier Solana. He has been Professor at Stanford University and Har
"Compelling Arguments for Peace" according to LittleTank. An excellent work by an expert on this topic - who is highly readable and writes clearly and cogently. While one may not agree with all his points, they are thought-provoking and his arguments are compelling.
Includes feature quotes and vignettes from international figures including Kofi Annan, Sam Nunn, and Hillary Clinton, among many others. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years. From Jane Goodall's rainforest research station, to a hostage taking in Eastern Africa, to the Reagan-Gorbachev post-summit epiphany in Reykjavik, the Hamburgs take us there. Including lessons from personal experience, pithy quotes from interviews with international dignitaries, and the insights of a documentary sensibility, this book reflects upon striking moments in peace history and inflects them with the perspective of preventive medicine. Features of this engaging text: Combines personal experience(including involvement in a hostage rescue mission) with ongoing research in a variety of areas over 50+ years. Builds upon six key pillars of prevention: education, early warning
He has been Professor at Stanford University and Harvard University, President of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 1982 to 1997. Among his m