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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary KingPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc Imprint: CQ Press Edition: Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 28.00cm Weight: 1.360kg ISBN: 9781604264715ISBN 10: 1604264713 Pages: 401 Publication Date: 19 October 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMary Elizabeth King is professor of peace and conflict studies at the University for Peace, an affiliate of the United Nations. A political scientist, she is also distinguished scholar at the American University Center for Global Peace, Washington, D.C., and Rothermere American Institute Fellow, University of Oxford, Britain. She is a veteran of the U.S. civil rights movement and in 1988 won a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award for her memoir, Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. She has spent her career studying collective nonviolent action in political conflicts, about which she has written extensively. Her latest book is A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance. Supported by the United States Institute of Peace, she is working on a study of a Gandhian struggle in India against untouchability during 1924–1925. In 2003 in Mumbai (Bombay), India, King was given the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award, which recognizes the promotion of Gandhian values. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |