Some Books and Articles on Peace
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 11 Apr 2016
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service
Here is a link to a review of my new book, “The Need for a New Economic System”:
Then, on the Danish Peace Academy website, there are the following links:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-s-avery/john-a-collected-essays-1/paperback/product-22555064.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-scales-avery/john-a-collected-essays-2/paperback/product-22555150.html
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-scales-avery/collected-essays-3/paperback/product-22512358.html
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/collected4.pdf
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/Memories%20of%20Beirut%20and%20Tehran.pdf
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-scales-avery/the-need-for-a-new-economic-system/paperback/product-22556315.html
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/science/index.htm
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-scales-avery/space-age-science-and-stone-age-politics/paperback/product-22556352.html
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/videnskab.pdf
Also, here are links to articles in two journals of the World Academy of Art and Science:
http://cadmusjournal.org/user/221
http://eruditio.worldacademy.org/author/john-scales-avery
and to the Learning Development Institute
http://www.learndev.org/dl/Crisis21-Avery.pdf
Finally, here are links to some articles that are available on the Internet:
Against the institution of war
https://www.wagingpeace.org/against-the-institution-of-war/
We need your voice today
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery190313.htm
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090413.htm
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery250313.htm
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery010413.htm
Values for the future
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280412.htm
Reformed teaching of history
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery020812.htm
Targeting ciivilians
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery010912.htm
Blood for oil
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030912.htm
Back to child labor and slavery?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery250312.htm
Human rights
https://www.wagingpeace.org/author/john-avery/
http://global-human-rights.blogspot.dk/2014/07/the-court-of-world-opinion-by-john.html
Using material goods for social competition
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery230113.htm
Making a game of killing
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2012/06/making-a-game-of-killing/
Construction versus destruction
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery190912.htm
The Nuremberg Princoples and individual responsibility
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery300712.htm
Benefits of equality
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery200512.htm
Adverse effects of globalization
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery080512.htm
Optimum population in the future
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery130113.htm
Reciprocity and karma
http://www.countercurrents.org/karma280113.htm
Limits to growth and fractional reserve banking
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery200212.htm
Attacks on Iran, past and present
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery290112.htm
Limits to growth and climate change
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2012/07/limits-to-growth-and-climate-change/
The future of international law
https://www.wagingpeace.org/the-future-of-international-law/
One step backward taken
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030512.htm
Facing a set of linked problems
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery230712.htm
The Titanic as an allegory
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery160412.htm
Nobody had the slightest idea of what it would be like
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery310812.htm
Israel, Iran and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery210715.htm
Dangers of nuclear power generation
www.countercurrents.org/nuclearpower.pdf
Iran: automatic escallation to World War III?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery240912.htm
Perpetual war against terrorism?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery070912.htm
Poverty and war
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery040412.htm
Collective punishment and the blockade of Gaza
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery221112.htm
Economic predictions for 2013
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery050113.htm
Destroying the world for profit
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery160812.htm
The protection racket
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery210812.htm
Sanctions as collective punishment
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery200113.htm
The Mayan apocalypse and Gell-Mann’s curve
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery271212.htm
Restoring democracy in the United States
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery101112.htm
Just staying alive
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery120313.htm
Do the people have a right to know what their governments are doing?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery190812.htm
A threatened global catastrophe
http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/media/john-scales-avery-a-threatened-global-catastrophe/
Cancer threat from radioactive leaks at Hanford, USA
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery230213.htm
A golden age?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280513.htm
The training of soldiers
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery181012.htm
Tribalism and agreed-upon lies
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33879.htm
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery270313.htm
Kill or be killed (or both)
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery071112.htm
Thou shalt not kill
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery140512.htm
Science changes the character of war
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery011013.htm
Ethics for the future
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery230913.htm
“Humanitarian” missile strikes against Syria?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090913.htm
Syria, democracy and international law
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery070913.htm
Nobel Peace Prize winner and war criminal?
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2013/09/nobel-peace-prize-winner-and-war-criminal/
Some peace education initiatives in Denmark
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery260813.htm
Protecting whistleblowers
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery300713.htm
A government with many secrets is not a democracy
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery150713.htm
The social responsibility of scientists
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090713.htm
The task before us
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery010713.htm
Secrecy versus democracy
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280613.htm
The arrogance of power
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery100613.htm
Racism, colonialism and exceptionalism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36494.htm
The case for economic reform
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery291013.htm
An attack on Iran could escalate into a global nuclear war
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery061113.htm
The humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons
https://www.wagingpeace.org/a-conference-on-the-humanitarian-impact-of-nuclear-weapons-in-february-2014/
Mandela and Gandhi
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery081213.htm
Some examples of genocide
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery131213.htm
Nuclear warfare as genocide
https://www.wagingpeace.org/nuclear-warfare-as-genocide/
Are we being driven like cattle?
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/are-we-being-driven-like-cattle/
Does the American Jewish Community really want a general war in the Middle East?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery130513.htm
The fragility of our complex civilization
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/05/the-fragility-of-our-complex-civilization/
An accident waiting to happen
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery020214.htm
Atoms for peace?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery100214.htm
Truth versus power
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/02/truth-versus-power/
Lessons from World War I
http://cadmusjournal.org/node/408
Adam Smith’s invisible hand is at our throats
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/03/adam-smiths-invisible-hand-is-at-our-throats/
Unfulfilled responsibilities of the media
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery070414.htm
Europe needs to be independent
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090414.htm
The long-term future
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery190414.htm
Geological extinction events and runaway climate change
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery270414.htm
Preventing a human-initiated 6th geological extinction event
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery020514.htm
Our duty to future generations
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110514.htm
The illegality of NATO
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/06/the-illegality-of-nato/
The urgent need for renewable energy
http://eruditio.worldacademy.org/files/issue-5/reprints/ej-i5-need-for-renewable-energy-javery-reprint.pdf
An Arctic nuclear weapons free zone; Scandinavia as a first step
http://www.arnehansen.net/110317AfriNordenstpa-1.pdf
Saving threatened species
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090614.htm
The devil’s dynamo
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery170614.htm
The court of world public opinion
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/07/the-court-of-world-opinion/
Climate change: will a disaster wake us up?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery190714.htm
Book review: “Hiroshima, August 6, 1945”
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090814.htm
The Marshall Islands sue all nuclear nations
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110814.htm
Science, religion and war
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery140814.htm
Killing civilians
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery260814.htm
60 years in the peace movement
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/read/John_auto.pdf
Climate change means lifestyle change
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery080914.htm
The agony of Iraq
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery230914.htm
The United Nations Climate Summit
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280914.htm
Interrelated threats to humans and to the biosphere
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2014/11/interrelated-threats-to-humans-and-to-the-biosphere/
Birgitta Jonsdottir, democracy, and freedom of information
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery221114.htm
http://serenoregis.org/2014/11/29/birgitta-jonsdottir-democrazia-e-liberta-dinformazione-john-scales-avery/
Institutional and cultural inertia
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery040115.htm
http://eruditio.worldacademy.org/issue-6/article/institutional-and-cultural-inertia
Politeness in multi-ethnic societies
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery090115.htm
Some contributions of Islamic culture
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery280115.htm
Quick action is needed to save the long-term future
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery110215.htm
Remember your humanity
https://www.wagingpeace.org/remember-your-humanity/
Gandhi as an economist
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030315.htm
Secrecy and democracy are incompatible
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery240315.htm
Europe muust not be pushed into a nuclear war with Russia
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/03/30/europe-must-not-be-forced-into-a-nuclear-war-with-russia/
The future of international law
https://www.wagingpeace.org/the-future-of-international-law/
Millay’s “Epitaph for the Race of Man”
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery260415.htm
Book review: “The Path to Zero”
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery220515.htm
Albert Einstein, scientist and pacifist
https://www.wagingpeace.org/tag/albert-einstein/
Exponential growth
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery130615.htm
New hope for avoiding catastrophic climate change
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery210615.htm
Militarism’s hostages
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery240615.htm
Will the real issues be discussed in 2016?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030715.htm
Debt slavery
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery070715.htm
Greed is driving us toward disaster
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery170715.htm
A nuclear weapons convention by majority vote at the UN
https://www.wagingpeace.org/a-nuclear-weapons-convention-by-majority-vote-at-the-un/
The Need for a New Economic System: Part 9 (see the end of the article for the other parts)
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/08/24/the-need-for-a-new-economic-system-part-ix-a-new-society-a-new-social-contract-a-new-way-life/
Book review: “Before it is Too Late”
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/11/23/book-review-aurelio-peccei-and-daisako-ikeda-before-it-is-too-late/
Paris: The urgent need for a sense of proportion
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/11/24/paris-a-sense-of-proportions-is-urgently-needed/
Paris: We need system change
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery141215.htm
The United States drifts towards political irresponsibility
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/12/18/the-united-states-drifts-towards-political-irresponsibilty/
Culture, education and human solidarity
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2015/12/28/culture-education-and-human-solidarity/
Pharming
http://prn.fm/john-scales-avery-pharming/
Who is my neighbor?
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery030316.htm
The world as it is, and the world as it could be
http://www.countercurrents.org/world.pdf
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D., who was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in organizing the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network and Associate Professor Emeritus at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is chairman of both the Danish National Pugwash Group and the Danish Peace Academy and received his training in theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry at M.I.T., the University of Chicago and the University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles both on scientific topics and on broader social questions. His most recent book is Civilization’s Crisis in the 21st Century (pdf).
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