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Peace News #2451 June - Aug 2003

170+ arrested at Trident base Noisy, muted, massive or microscopic? NPTPrepCom Rejecting US aid Victory for whom? Iraq war - peace prisoners

Andreas Speck, Militarism in everyday life Huwaida Arraf, Target: peace (activists) Caroline Lauer, Harassment of peace activists continues

Igo Rogova, A cautionary tale from Kosovar women to the women of Iraq Rob Fairmichael, Democracy in Northern Ireland Beena Sarwar, Justifying violence Keith Goddard, An end in sight?

Jamie Reilly, Moving into the future Kim Petersen, Through the East Asian lens China: act in solidarity Syngman Rhee, Martin Luther King gave me a dream for Korea Visiting media (Japan Indymedia & Tokyo Progressive), Tokyo rising Andreas Speck, A young movement in search of direction Ho Keun Yoo, Personal experience from a Korean CO Taiwan - first Asian country to recognise conscientious objection Bae Young-Hwan, Rice to the starving people of North Korea! Christian Karl, South Korea: migrant workers and the anti-war movement Pranjal Tiwari, Migrant workers demonstrate in Hong Kong

Tuva Ravn Eggan & Christie Church (compilers), Country profiles Caroline Lauer, Briefly, a rudimentary history Human rights violations in North-East Asian prisons North-East Asian nuclear power and weapons Contacts, further reading, media

Judith Shapiro, Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China Young Whan Kihl and Peter Hayes (eds), Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: The Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula Selig Harrison, Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and US Disengagement Stephen Zunes, Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism Phyllis Bennis, Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism David Rodin, War and Self-Defence Hans Post, One Man In His Time Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff (translated by Paul Burns), Introducing Liberation Theology Jonathan Neale, You are G8, we are 6 Billion - The truth behind the Genoa Protests Michael Randle (ed), Challenge to Nonviolence Cynthia Cockburn & Dubravka Zarkov (eds), Militaries, Masculinities, and International Peacekeeping Caroline Guinard, From war to peace: lessons learnt from achievements and failures in peace agreements over the past decade: a strategy for peace process optimisation

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