Paul K. Chappell, 2014
Number 8 on my book list to read in 2014. (may or may not be read as numbered)
A few years ago I read Paul K. Chappell’s book,
Will War Ever End?: A Soldier’s Vision of Peace in the 21st Century, published in 2011. It is a very well written book. He makes a convincing argument that humans really have an aversion to killing each other and must be organized and molded to go, sustain and kill in war. Paul is not your average peace activist. He is a West Point Graduate who was deployed to Iraq and left the Army as a Captain. He now, like me, sees that war is not inevitable, nor a necessary evil. It is a choice. He has four books on the subject and this is his latest one.
If we are going to bring about peace, and I mean real peace, we must envision a world without war, study why we have war and put more effort to abolish war that conducting war. I’m not sure what peace looks like, but I know it begins with ending war. So let’s get about it.
As of March 1, 2014, this is the end of my must read book list. Other books will probably be added. I’ll keep you up to date.
1.
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 1968
2. Ali’s Greatest Fight - Finished last week of February
Bingham, Howard L., Wallace, Max and Ali, Muhammad, 2012
3.
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014
4.
My Ishmael: A Sequel
Daniel Quinn, 1998
5.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
6.
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), 1963
7.
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
8.
The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World
Paul K. Chappell, 2014
