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A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq
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By David Cortright
A Peaceful Superpower:
The Movement against War in Iraq
can be ordered by calling
1-800-233-6786, ext. 13
(requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
or send your request with your name, address, and phone number to:
Fourth Freedom Forum
803 North Main St.
Goshen, Indiana 46526
Published by the Fourth Freedom Forum,
February 2004.
Special Edition Paperback:
ISBN: 1-931-710-13-9 (pbk: alk paper)
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A Peaceful Superpower: The Movement against War in Iraq FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, February 15, 2003
Contact: David Cortright, 800-233-6786, ext. 14
or Ruth Miller at ext. 10.
On the First Anniversary Of the Largest Global Peace March in History, A New
Book Captures the Essence of the Movement against the War on Iraq
On February 15, 2003, in hundreds of cities across the world, an estimated
ten million people demonstrated against the war on Iraq. It was the largest
single day of protest in history. The sheer scale of the movement caused one
New York Times reporter, Patrick Tyler, to confer "superpower"
status on the antiwar movement. Now a new book titled A Peaceful Superpower:
The Movement against War in Iraq, offers a unique perspective on that movement.
Author David Cortright writes as an engaged activist who helped shape these
antiwar efforts. A leader in the U.S. peace movement for over thirty years and
former director of SANE/Freeze, Cortright was cofounder of the Win Without War
Coalition and worked closely with coalition organizations. In A Peaceful
Superpower, Cortright provides readers with an inside view of the emergence
and development of the Iraq antiwar movement, and provides analysis and insight
into its accomplishments and failures.
A Peaceful Superpower reviews how the movement developed, addressing:
the role of the internet; reaction to the movement from the White House and Congress; Hollywood's involvement; contributions by communities of color, women, veterans and religious
activists; coverage of the movement by media; and targeted use of advertising by Win Without War coalition members to question
the wisdom of war.
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David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
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