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Preparing for Peace The website of the Westmorland General Meeting 'Preparing for Peace' initiative |
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THE ANATOMY OF WAR (A Study Guide for Young People) Publisher: Westmorland General Meeting ISBN 0-9550527-1-8 Cover price �5 (5 or more �2-50 each) pb 31p Suitable for studies in Citizenship, History or Religion �The Anatomy of War� uses two experiences of modern war, reduced to manageable form as study material for young people, especially in the 16 � 21 age group. To test the effectiveness of the tool of war students will study two very different twentieth century wars: Case Study 1: Vietnam, 1962-73, between the USA and North Vietnam, cost the lives of over fifty thousand American soldiers and some four million Vietnamese. Case Study 2: Rwanda, 1994, a civil war in many ways more typical of modern warfare. It caused 500,000 to 800,000 deaths in only three months. Chris Culpin, Director, Schools History Project: �This ready-to-use material will encourage active involvement by students, using group work and informed discussion to address key relevant issues and reach their own informed conclusions.� The study guide is part of a set of teaching schemes emerging from the project, Preparing for Peace, an initiative by Quakers. The project posed a series of questions to experts on whether war works in today�s world. All the teaching schemes and the 25 papers from experts are downloadable from the web-site:
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