Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World

390 Pages·2011·3.39 MB·English

by  Karin Lofthus Carrington, Susan Griffin

Transforming Terror
Transforming Terror
Remembering the Soul of the World
edited by
Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan Griff n
with Howard Teich
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Library of Congress Cataloging-i n-P ublication Data
Transforming terror : remembering the soul of the
world / edited by Karin Lofthus Carrington and Susan
Griff n.
p . cm.
I SBN 978-0 -5 20-2 5102-1 (cloth)
I SBN 978-0 -5 20-2 6928-6 (pbk.)
1. Terrorism. 2. Terror. 3. Terrorism— Psychological
aspects. 4. Violence—P revention. 5. Emotional
intelligence. I. Carrington, Karin Lofthus. II. Griff n,
Susan.
H V6431.T696 2011
3 63.325—dc22 2010041000
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In the hope that future generations will live in
a more compassionate world, we dedicate this
volume to the memory of the many innocent
children, women, and men who have perished
during violent conf icts.
The world too has something of a spirit or a soul.
Václav Havel
Contents
Foreword: Archbishop Desmond Tutu xv
Ack nowl edgm ents xvii
Introduction: S usan Griff n and Karin Lofthus Carrington 1
part one. a deeper look 5
1. Terror and Terrorism 7
Susan Griff n, Civilian Casualties: The New Frontline 9
Susan Griff n, from A Chorus of Stones:
The Private Life of War 15
Jan Egeland, Statement of the Under-S ecretary-G eneral at the
Open Meeting of the Security Council on the Protection of
Civilians in Armed Conf ict, June 28, 206 16
Daniel Elsberg, U.S. Nuclear Terorism 19
Chris Hedges, from “The Truth of War” 26
Yanis Ritsos, Afternon 27
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger,
and Sam Nunn, A World Free of Nuclear Weapons 28
Mike Davis, The First Car Bomb 32
Cindy Folkers and Mary Olson, Radiation and Children:
The Ignored Victims 34
Federico García Lorca, Casida of the Lament 37