Give peace a chance : preventing mass violence / David A. Hamburg with Eric Hamburg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.

Personal experiences as pathways to peace -- Education for peace : overcoming complacency, ignorance, prejudice, and wishful thinking -- Early warning : taking prompt action to protect peace -- Democracy and peace : preventing mass violence with best civic practices -- Development and peace : fostering socioeconomic equality -- Human rights and peace : empowering people and pragmatic decency -- Weapons against peace : overcoming history's most dangerous armaments -- The United States and other democracies -- The United Nations -- The European Union and other regional organizations -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Promising changes in a decade and a generation.

"In Give Peace a Chance, the distinguished Dr. Hamburg teams up with his filmmaker son to tell the story of selected significant peace achievements over the past 25 years. Including lessons from personal experience, pithy quotes from interviews with international dignitaries, and the insights of a documentary sensibility, this book reflects upon striking moments in peace history and inflects them with the perspective of preventive medicine. From Jane Goodall's rainforest research station, to a hostage taking in Eastern Africa, to the Reagan-Gorbachev post-summit epiphany in Reykjavik, the Hamburgs take us there. They then distill the wisdom of these and many other encounters into an essential "six pillars of prevention"--Education, early action, democracy building, socioeconomic development, human rights, and arms control. These six pillars are essential not only to reflections upon the past, but to future prospects emerging from recent challenges to peace--the Arab Spring, the violent repression in Syria, and the brewing faceoff with Iran." -- Publisher information.