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Current Approaches in Drama Therapy: 2nd Edition

By assorted authors including Armand Volkas, edited by David Johnson and Renee Emunah

The second edition of Current Approaches in Drama Therapy offers a revised and updated comprehensive compilation of the primary drama therapy methods and models that are being utilized and taught in the United States and Canada, including four new approaches… A distinct index of key concepts in drama therapy is included, demonstrating the consolidation and breadth of theory in the field. This highly informative and indispensable volume is geared toward drama therapy training programs, mental health professionals, theatre and drama teachers, school counselors, and organizational development consultants.

http://www.amazon.com/Current-Approaches-Drama-Therapy-Johnson/dp/0398078483

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Piecework: A Woman’s Peace Theology

By several authors including Wendy Kroeker

A book of letters, conversations and reflections about peace from a feminist Mennonite perspective.  This 80-page book written by seven Mennonite women from across Canada. They vary in age and relate at different levels to the church. All share a background in theological studies.

http://www.amazon.com/Piecework-A-Womens-Peace-Theology/dp/0968308015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292014752&sr=1-1

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Justpeace Ethics: A Guide to Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding

By Jarem Sawatsky

Drawing on the imaginations of some leading peace and restorative justice practitioners, Justpeace Ethics identifies components of a justpeace imagination—the basis of an alternative ethics, where the end is touched with each step. In this simple companion to justpeace ethics, Jarem Sawatsky helps those struggling with how to respond to conflict and violence in both just and peaceful ways.

http://wipfandstock.com/store/Justpeace_Ethics_A_Guide_to_Restorative_Justice_and_Peacebuilding

 

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Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

Our God is Undocumented

By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell

The principle of hospitality and the commandment to welcome the stranger are among the most consistent themes of the Bible. How does that apply to the question of undocumented immigrants in our own country? In alternating chapters Myers examines the biblical dimensions of hospitality, sanctuary, the crossing of borders, and God’s predilection for those on the margins, while Colwell relates the stories of immigrants and immigrant rights activists – their hopes, dreams, and sufferings. These are men and women who, by acting upon their common humanity with the “other,”  have learned to cross a different kind of boundary.

http://www.chedmyers.org/books/our-god-undocumented-biblical-faith-and-immigrant-justice

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Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. 2: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. 2

 By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers

This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. “People who work in conflict resolution rarely realize the potential restorative justice offers for addressing the justice dynamics inherent in conflict. Likewise, peacemakers may write off justice advocates as trouble-makers, while non-violent activists often see peacemakers as glossing over underlying wrongs. To bring these approaches together, Enns and Myers offer the metaphor of “full-spectrum” peacemaking. …They also challenge us to go deeper. We must also be aware of and address underlying factors that contribute to and shape conflict, such as inequities of power and privilege and structural injustice. Fortunately, the authors offer analytic tools to help understand these dynamics.” –From the Foreword by Howard Zehr

http://www.chedmyers.org/books/ambassadors-reconciliation-vol-ii-diverse-christian-practices-restorative-justice-and-peacemak

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Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. 1: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

By Elaine Enns and Ched Myers

This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians).

“Exceedingly rare and a precious gift to church and world is Myers and Enns’ wondrous mixing of ravenous hunger for justice, patient and practical wisdom in restoring justice and making peace, and consummate skill at biblical interpretation.”   –Tom Yoder Neufeld

http://www.chedmyers.org/books/ambassadors-reconciliation-vol-i-new-testament-reflections-restorative-justice-and-peacemaking

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Global Nonviolent Action Database (GNAD)

Go to http://NVDatabase.swarthmore.edu to access a free global database of nonviolent actions.  Campaigns are drawn from nearly every country in the world, in which people overthrew dictators, changed environmental policies, halted racist discrimination, fought for economic justice, established their religious freedom, changed sexist and other oppressive laws, established national independence, and defended their neighborhoods – all by using nonviolent resistance.  Included are cases in which the campaign failed so that learning can be gained from these cases.

The database was envisioned and is managed by George Lakey, activist, professor and CSOP 2011 Instructor.