The twenty-first century has brought with it a shift from the notion of human security being located in secure national borders to the need to secure the safety, freedom, and dignity of all. Despite efforts to equalize women’s status in the world evidenced by changes in many international projects requiring a gender focus, women and men experience most of the world in very different ways according to gender. Further, the reality is that humans who do not all fall neatly into one of these c...

Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace. Yet, a number of key concerns...

Her father vanished along the Silk Road. Now, his secrets from a painful past return with the appearance of a mysterious weaver.After her mother dies in childbirth, Saina’s distraught father sells her into servitude and disappears on the Silk Road. Now a young woman, she has gained favor serving the head wife in a bustling roadside inn outside the ancient trade city of Samarkand.When a mysterious weaver and his handsome grandson arrive from a distant city, ...

Anna Snyder provides a detailed account of the challenges women representatives in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) faced in building bridges across diverse ethnic, racial, national, regional, and ideological backgrounds at the 4th United Nations (UN) Conference on Women. This book traces the process by which women's peace groups set an agenda for global policies in the area of women and armed conflict. Setting the Agenda for Global Peace shows how NGOs use conflict to develop transna...

After her mother dies in childbirth, Saina's distraught father sells her into servitude and disappears on the Silk Road. Now a young woman, she has gained favor serving the head wife in a bustling roadside inn outside the ancient trade city of Samarkand. But when a mysterious weaver arrives, bringing with him the garment her father wore the day he abandoned her, clues about her family's past begin to emerge.

“I adored stepping back into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursBestselling author Nancy E. Turner returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of he...

A sweeping political drama of love and agency in turbulent Zimbabwe.Harare, 2000: Gabrielle, a newly-qualified lawyer, and Ben, a charismatic American diplomat, begin a love affair amidst Zimbabwe's political crisis. As pressure mounts to drop a sensitive case and state-sponsored violence escalates, their lives are shattered by a shocking attack.Their stories diverge across continents, forcing Gabrielle on a painful journey of self-realization. Irene Sabati...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAN COFFEY...A SCIENTIST, TRAPPED IN THE DARKNESS, AND SHE’S RUNNING OUT OF TIME....Counting down to a Chernobyl-scale disaster, the clock starts now...Tick...Scientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attacked the facility where her team was working on a top-secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed building, Marion must stop radioactive testing samples from leaking...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAN COFFEY, the Gavin MacFadyen series begins…Two decades ago, a sleepy New England town is torn apart by murder when a group of teens lure their unsuspectingvictim to a lakeside beach. The prosecution’s witness is the troubled fifteen-year-old Lacey Watkins, who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.Haunted by the ghosts of her family’s past, Lacey has returned to this place of scandal. With the help...

THE JANUS EFFECTFROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAN COFFEY...Winner of the Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Novel!PEACE AND WAR, FRIEND AND FOE, LIFE AND DEATH… A DEADLY JOURNEY WHERE TRUST CAN KILL!Fahimah Banaz has been wrongly held in a CIA “black site” for over five years. Now, as cases of unexplained deaths—marked by rapid decomposition—are cropping up across the US, Homeland Security i...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jan Coffey...TRIPLE THREATCountdown to the Fourth of July…Just weeks before Independence Day, the President is targeted for assassination by a powerful financial cartel that is making plans to rip off the American dream.Only two people stand between a national disaster and a glorious celebration…and time is running out...A treasured Betsy Ross flag is missing, and F...

FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JAN COFFEY...From USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrick writing as Jan Coffey...In a crowded parking lot, chaos erupts as a Porsche careens out of control. An SUV crashes through a dealership window, and a Mercedes plunges off a pier onto a yacht. Witnesses claim the vehicles had a “mind of their own.” Five wrecks in a row—this can't be mere coincidence.Computer guru Emily Doyle find...