Waging Peace

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ISBN: 9781743310038

Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman

Anne Deveson

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Allen & Unwin
01 April 2013

Memoirs; Biography - Australian

ABBEY'S CHOICE APRIL 2013 ----- In her lifetime Anne Deveson has seen massive resources deployed in waging war. Funds, strategies, materials and lives with reverberating effects not only on nations and peoples but on families and successive generations of them. Now, Deveson watches as Australia's recent military ventures have become terrible, anguished wars with no winners and she looks back and asks what might have been resolved if we'd put as much into making peace as we do into making war, into reconciling powers rather than promoting competition between them. Deveson's many readers will again enjoy her distinctive take on life. Colourful stories of extraordinary experiences set amid ordinary lives, together with reflections that interrogate ideas and values with ironic edge yet always with humour and hope shining through.

By: Anne Deveson
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9781743310038
ISBN 10: 174331003X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 April 2013
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Waging Peace: Reflections on Peace and War from an Unconventional Woman

Anne Deveson presents an amalgam of personal history, memories, reflections and research on that elusive subject, peace... Her scope is wide and her material proves shocking, informative, inspiring - and tender. * Canberra Times * Waging Peace is not so much a literary memoir (though there is some lovely prose to be enjoyed) but more like one of Deveson's documentaries, interleaving personal anecdotes of her experiences of war (and peace) with historical events and chronology. * Weekend Australian *