Books for Students of Peace & Conflict Studies
1. 
The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World 4.20 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,289 ratings 3. 
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by:
Bill Gates
4.12 avg rating — 50,136 ratings 4. 
The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
by:
Carne Ross
3.65 avg rating — 379 ratings 
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HumAIn: Navigating the Impact of AI in a Jobless Future
by:
Amanda Gibbs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 8. 
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.02 avg rating — 2,953 ratings 11. 
Paris Talks: Addresses Given by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1911
by:
Abdu'l-Bahá
4.82 avg rating — 300 ratings 
15. 
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by:
Amanda Ripley
4.27 avg rating — 4,487 ratings 
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating — 136,013 ratings
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.14 avg rating — 9,093 ratings 
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The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters
by:
Shoghi Effendi
4.74 avg rating — 104 ratings 27. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by:
Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,269 ratings 
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.43 avg rating — 12,040 ratings 
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,903 ratings 
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Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
by:
David C. Korten
4.03 avg rating — 132 ratings 
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by:
David C. Korten
3.97 avg rating — 362 ratings 38. 
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings 39. 
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.02 avg rating — 8,497 ratings 
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Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.99 avg rating — 2,271 ratings 42. 
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Safe Area GoraĹľde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
by:
Joe Sacco
4.29 avg rating — 10,581 ratings 45. 
Independent Diplomat: Despatches from an Unaccountable Elite
by:
Carne Ross
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 46. 
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
by:
Dambisa Moyo
3.70 avg rating — 8,180 ratings 47. 
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings 48. 
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating — 11,196 ratings 50. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoÄźlu
4.09 avg rating — 59,213 ratings 51. 
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
by:
Paul Collier
3.85 avg rating — 7,939 ratings 
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings 55. 
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by:
Oona A. Hathaway
4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings 
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.20 avg rating — 31,558 ratings 
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History 4.05 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings 66. 
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
by:
Larry M. Bartels
3.91 avg rating — 445 ratings 67. 
Burundi's Negative Peace: The Shadow of a Broken Continent in the Era of Nepad
by:
Kale Ewusi
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 68. 
Peacekeeping and the African Union: Building Negative Peace (Cass Series on Peacekeeping)
by:
Jude Cocodia
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 69. 
In the Shadow of "Just Wars": Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, 'Just' War, and the State of Emergency
by:
Alain de Benoist
4.01 avg rating — 69 ratings 71. 
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
by:
Michael Walzer
3.86 avg rating — 2,877 ratings 
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.98 avg rating — 5,775 ratings 74. 
Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda
by:
Michael Barnett
3.86 avg rating — 167 ratings 75. 
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations
by:
Paul Kennedy
3.57 avg rating — 315 ratings 76. 
The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict
by:
Michael E. Brown
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,036 ratings 79. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings 
