[Love]Reads

Check out our favorite books of peacebuilding, leadership, history and community!

We’ll post book reviews here and look forward to your recommendations and thoughts.

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson

• The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

Paul Loeb

• A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-Violent Conflict

Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Pema Chodron

• Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965 (Blacks in the Diaspora)

Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne…

• Gandhi the Man: The Story of His Transformation

Eknath Easwaran

• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Bruce M. Patton, William L. Ury,…

• A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

• Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together

William Isaacs

• Ethics for the New Millennium

Dalai Lama

• The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace

John Paul Lederach

• The Little Book Of Conflict Transformation (The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series)

John Paul Lederach

• Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, revised edition

Staughton Lynd

• Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence

Martha Minow

• The Search for a Nonviolent Future: A Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World

Michael N. Nagler

• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)

Samantha Power

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)

Barbara Ransby

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg

• Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

• Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen

• A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?

Walden Bello, José Bové, Naomi Klein, et. al

• Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains

Eknath Easwaran