After The Guns Fall Silent

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Years after peace treaties have been signed and military conflict is nominally over, anti-personnel mines continue to claim innocent lives. This text offers data showing that landmines victimize civilians in direct contravention of the Geneva convention and examines the impact landmines have on people, on their communities and on their outlook and view of life. The report, commissioned by the VVAF, examines the consequences of landmine use on post-conflict reconstruction and development, on refugee movement and resettlement and on the environment. It also investigates mine clearance and mine awareness and medical, rehabilitative and psychological costs. Using original research, the report uses case studies from countries including Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Scholarly and accurate analysis combines with people's own words and real personal stories to present a detailed evaluation of the effect of this most potent of weapons. This work is published by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and distributed in the UK and Ireland by Oxfam.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Shawn Roberts
Publisher : Oxfam
Release : 1995-01-01
File : 590 Pages
ISBN-13 : 085598337X


After The Guns Fall Silent

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First published in 1976, After the Guns Fall Silent is an important Arab statement on the Middle East crisis. The central theme is that the October war and détente fundamentally changed the basis of the conflict. The Arab military success and the impact of the oil weapon established a parity between Arab quantity and Israel quality. This new sense of equality has forced both sides into contemplating dialogue rather than unyielding confrontation. The author also predicts that the Palestinian issue is expected to become even more explosive as their advance in diplomatic stature has not produced any political or territorial gain and their struggle has become a world inspiration for the revolt of the dispossessed against the affluent. This book will be of interest to students of history, political science, international relations and Middle Eastern studies.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2024-05-01
File : 186 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781040029190


When The Guns Fall Silent

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Jack, standing among the war graves, sees a face he recognizes. Suddenly, it's 1914 again and he's a young lad back in the trenches. Visions of killing and misery come to him with horrible clarity. But then Jack remembers too the incredible moment when the guns fell silent for a short time, and fighting gave way to football on the frozen ground of No-Man's-Land. This amazing story, based on true facts from the First World War, will transport readers back to the war fields of France and show that even in times of conflict and extreme sadness, there is always hope.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : James Riordan
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
Release : 2013-11-07
File : 121 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192735713


The Guns Fall Silent

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This book discusses part of the military-stability problem, notably the part relating to East-West relationships, which is becoming synonymous with military stability between the Soviet Union and NATO.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Ian Cuthbertson
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-06-26
File : 147 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000302103


Forgiveness

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"Describes a series of situations in which people are reconciled to some injustice and manage to come to a better understanding and, sometimes, to forgive . . .For anyone interested in the subject, I would highly recommend it." --Rachel Billington, "Inside Time" in the National Newspaper for Prisoners How could survivors of the Burma Road, the Siberian Gulag, or Nazi atrocities forgive those who harmed them? How can representatives of entire populations--Australian Aborigines, African Americans, and black South Africans--be reconciled with whites who exploited them? And how can the offenders find the grace to apologize? Michael Henderson writes about dozens of remarkable people of many nations and faiths who have, by repentance and forgiveness, been able to break the chain of hate through repentance and forgiveness.

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Genre : Forgiveness
Author : Michael Henderson
Publisher : Arnica Publishing, Inc.
Release : 2003
File : 226 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0972653562


After The Guns Fell Silent

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Genre : History
Author : Adolph A. Hoehling
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Release : 1990
File : 332 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:49015001466680


Military Legacies

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Landmines, cluster-bombs, chemical pollutants, and other remnants of war continue to cause death to humans and damage to the environment long after the guns have fallen silent. From the jungles of Vietnam to the arctic tundra of Russia, no region has escaped the legacy of warfare. To understand the legacy of modern militarism, this book presents an overview of post-conflict societies, with an emphasis on the human toll exacted by modern warfare.

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Genre : History
Author : James A. Tyner
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2010-01-26
File : 245 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135172855


Landmine Monitor Report 1999

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Genre : History
Author : International Campaign to Ban Land Mines
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Release : 1999
File : 1114 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1564322319


In My Father S House

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A rusted wok; a rooster's feather; a battered cricket bat; World War II medals; a Vietnam Moratorium badge; a ring. Why are these things so precious to Beth? The war in Afghanistan is entering its eighth year. Beth has been living in her father's house, looking after him, waiting for him to die. And now the wretched old man is finally dead and she must clear out the contents of the house ready for sale... but Beth is a hoarder. Parting with anything at all is agony for her. For Martha, a professional clutter buster and ruthless neat freak, throwing things out is easy - some say, too easy. As the two women begin to trawl through the mountains of 'stuff' that have built up over the years, gradually the layers of both their lives are peeled back. In My Father's House is about passion, obsession and imagination. It is about families - their secrets, lies and loves. It explores the ways in which war damages people's lives and what it really means to be brave. How do we come to terms with the past, let go and move on?

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Jane Mundy
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Release : 2018-11-01
File : 325 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781742984513


The Dispersion Of Egyptian Jewry

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In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central to Beinin's study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. It is a question he grapples with himself, and his reflections on his experiences as an American Jew in Israel and Egypt offer a candid, personal perspective on the hazards of marginal identities.

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Genre : History
Author : Joel Beinin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2023-11-10
File : 208 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520920217