The brilliant art of peace : lectures from the Kofi Annan series / Abiodun Williams, editor
- Published
- Washington, DC : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- xii, 130 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Williams, Abiodun, 1961-
- Contents
- Foreword / Kofi A. Annan -- Introduction / Abiodun Williams -- I. Literature and music: 1. The humanities after 9/11 / Toni Morrison : 2. The use of language in war and peace / Chinua Achebe and Paul Muldoon : 3. Why music matters? / Leon Botstein -- II. Economics and human rights: 4. Globalization, winners and losers / Jagdish Bhagwati, Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs; 5. Who is afraid of human rights? / Ali Mazrui and William F. Schulz -- III. Identity and religion: 6. Identity in the twenty-first century / Amartya Sen and Kwame Anthony Appiah : 7. God's word and world politics / Desmond Tutu : 8. Islam and the West / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- IV. Science and technology: 9. Designer genes, the ethics of modern genetics / Eric Wieschaus : 10. Genetically modified crops for developed countries / Daphne Preuss and Jennifer Thomson -- V. United Nations: 11. Act of creation, the founding of the United Nations / Stephen Schlesinger -- About the contributors.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781601271426 (alk. paper)
1601271425 (alk. paper)
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