RAGFP Peace Education Resources
Rotarian Action Group For Peace (RAGFP) is a central resource center for Rotarian peacebuilders. The following materials were vetted by our Peace Education Committee and suggested for use in peace education.
RAGFP Peace Education Books
| Book | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| The Auschwitz Goalkeeper | Ron Jones with Joe Lovejoy | Story of a British POW in Auschwitz |
| God and the Gun | Martin Dillon | Faith and the Gun in N.Ireland |
| Years of Darkess | Gordon Gillespie | Eighty events in the N.Ireland “Troubles” & Peace Process |
| War and Peace Ireland since the 1960s | Christine Kinealy | Political triumphs and travails |
| Nunca Mas (Never Again) | A Report by Argentina Nat. Commission on Disappeared | |
| A Lexicon of Terror (Argentina) | Marguerite Feitlowitz | An account of the horror |
| A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | Boy Soldier |
| Girl Soldier | Faith J.H. McDonnell Grace Akallo | Girl Soldier |
| First Kill Your Family | Peter Eichstaedt | Child Soldiers Uganda |
| The Disappeared (voices from a secret war) | John Simpson & Jana Bennett | Argentinian “dirty war” |
| Confessions of an Argentine Warrior | Horacio Verbitsky | The confessions of a soldier |
| Searching for Life | Rita Arditti | The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo |
| Our of the Ashes (East Timor) | James J. Fox | Destruction and Reconstruction |
| Funu, The Ultimate Saga of East Timor | Jose Ramos Horta | An account of his life and efforts |
| Terry Waite Why he was Kidnapped | Gavin Hewitt | Compromised Integrity |
| I am Malala | Malala Yosef | Biography |
| Mairead Corrigan Betty Williams | Richard Deutsch | N. Ireland and what they did to become Nobel Peace Laureates |
| Professor Pugwash (the man who fought Nukes) | Kit Hill | The Life of Sir Joseph Rotblat |
| World Peace & developing Countries | Edited Joseph Rotblat | Annals of Pugwash 1985 |
| Non Violent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg | A Language of Life |
| Waging Peace | David Hartsough | Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist |
| Exhaust the Limits | Charles F “Chic” Dambach | Memoirs of a man who set out to make a difference |
| The Empathy Trap | Dr. Jane McGregor | Understanding Antisocial Personalities |
| Rebel Rouser for Peace | John Allen | Authorised biography of Desmond Tutu |
| The Words of Peace | Editor Walter Wink | Writings on nonviolence |
| Ethics for the New Millennium | Dalai Lama | |
| Exclusion and Embrace | Miroslav Volf | A theological exploration of identity, oneness and reconciliation |
| China into Africa (Trade, Aid, Influence) | Robert I. Rotberg | The China story in Africa |
| Character Counts | Corrine A. Gregory | Bringing the Rotary Four Way Test to Life |
| Resolving Identity Based Conflict in Nations and Organizations | Jay Rothman | Unleashing conflict’s creative potential |
| Economic Democracy | J.W. Smith | A grand strategy for world peace and prosperity |
| Democratization in the Middle East | Edited Amin Saikal & Albrecht Schnabel | Experiences, struggles, challenges |
| Dead Aid | Dambisa Moyo | Why Aid is not working in Africa and how there is another way |
| Peace Beyond Borders | Vijay Mehta | How the EU brought peace to Europe |
| Conflict Resolution | Bernard Mayer | A Practitioners Guide |
| ROGEC Collection of Essays | Rotary Club of Pune Katra (3131) | World Understanding and Peace |
| World Crisis & the Pathway to Peace | Mirza Masroor Ahmad | A response to the world crisis |
| Seeing Systems Peace, Justice, Sustainability | Northwest Earth Institute | Eco Challenges |
RAGFP Peace Education DVD’s
| DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Alfred Nobel Story | Children of the Crossfire (N. Ireland “troubles” prejudice) | The Story of Ireland | 1916 The Irish Rebellion | Sunday (N. Ireland) |
| Bloody Sunday | Saoirse | Broken Silence (Stories of individual Argentinians survivors of the ‘dirty war’) | The Official Story (one of the disappeared in Argentina) | The Disappeared |
| Imagining Argentina | The Lady (the story of Aung San Suu Kyii) | Lost Boys of Sudan | Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone | Bitter Paradise – the sellout of East Timor |
| Balibo (the death of journalists in E. Timor) | East Timor: Betrayal and Resurrection | Burma A Forgotten War (ADULT viewing) | Nelson Mandella from Freedom to History | Goodbye Bafana |
| Mandella long walk to freedom | Sarafina | Hotel Rwanda | Blood Diamond | The Last King of Scotland |
| The Constant Gardener | Gandhi | I am Ali | Hacksaw Ridge | Redemption |
| Sin Nombre | Gridiron Gang | Tsotsi | Dr. Martin Luther King (A Historical Perspective) | Selma |
| The Help | I am Because We Are | I Am you have the power to change the world | Dr. Strangelove (how I stopped worrying & learned to love the bomb) | Malala |
| Our Story Our Voice | Innocent Voices child soldiers Salvador | The Killing Fields | The Art of Peace (Dalai Lama) | Wheel of Time (Dalai Lama) |
| In Conversation with the Dalai Lama | Ethics for the New Millenium (Dalai Lama) | Rivers of Hope (Adolfo Perez Esquevel) | Mayan Rennaissance | Children of the Light (Desmond Tutu) |
| The Post |