Friday, January 7, 2011

Peace Reading List

Check out this reading list of books with a humanitarian theme. This list was compiled by an alumnae from the master's program in Peace & Justice Studies at the University of San Diego.

Do you have books to add to this list?

BOOK title

3 Cups of Tea, one man’s mission to promote peace one school at a time BY Greg Mortenson

A Bed For The Night: Humanitarianism in an Age of Genocide: Humanitarianism in Crisis BY David Rieff

A Long Way Gone, memoirs of a boy soldier BY Ishmael Beah

A thousand splendid suns BY Khaled Hosseini

Aid and Other Dirty Business, an insider reveals how good intentions have failed the world’s poor BY Giles Bolton

Beasts of No-Nation BY Uzodinma Iweala

Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country BY Tim Butcher

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed BY Jared Diamond

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa BY Dambisa Moyo

Development as Freedom BY Amartya Sen

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone BY Kenneth Cain

Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan BY Deborah Scroggins

First comes love, then comes malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life BY Eve Brown-Waite

Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners And Their Craft BY Larry Minear

I didn't do it for you BY Michela Wrong

In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz : Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo BY Michela Wrong

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa BY Adam Hochschild

Purple Hibiscus BY Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda BY Roméo Dallaire

Slave : My True Story BY Mende Nazer

Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea BY Robert D. Kaplan

Tears of the Desert, a memoir of survival in Darfur BY Halima Bashir

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It BY Paul Collier

The Color Purple BY Alice Walker

The Food Wars BY Walden Bello

The Kite Runner BY Khaled Hosseini

The Poisonwood Bible BY Barbara Kingsolver

The Shadow of the Sun BY Ryszard Kapuscinski

The State of Africa: socio-politics of post-independence Africa BY

The thing around your neck BY Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good BY William Easterly

The Zanzibar chest BY Aiden Hartley

Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places BY Paul Collier

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda BY Philip Gourevitch

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