“God's Shalom:
Confronting the Many Faces of Violence

Recommended Reading
Barrett, Lee, Christianity: Bomb of Violence or Balm of Peace? [full text]
Clapsis, Emmanuel (ed) Violence and Christian Spirituality An Ecumenical Conversation, (Geneva: WCC Publications, 2007; Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2007).(essays include Diane Kessler and Rodney Petersen)

World Council of Churches, Overcoming Violence (from the WCC's Decade on Violence studies, Geneva: WCC Publications, 2006)

Related Texts
Arendt, Hannah, On Violence,
Barth, Karl, A Letter from Great Britain to Switzerland
Bethke Elshtain, Jean, Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a  Violent World,
Bruggemann, Walter,  Living Toward a Vision: Biblical Reflections on Shalom,
Chilton, Bruce, Abraham's Curse
Confessing Christ in a World of Violence,  2004 statement of 260 seminary and college  teachers [full text]
Elliot, Willis, VIOLENCE: No Resort or Last Resort or...?" (United Ministries in Higher Education/67)
Ellul, Jacques, Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective
Enns, Holland, Riggs (eds) Seeking Cultures of Peace: A Peace Church Conversation
Floyd, Richard, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.
Gnanfason,.Kanyora, McSpadden, (eds) Women, Violence and Nonviolent Change
Gnanadson, Aruna, No Longer a Secret: The Church and Violence Against Women
Guthrie, Charles and Michael Quinlan, Just War: The Just War Tradition, Ethics in Modern Warfare
Harper, Charles (ed) Impunity: and Ethical Perspectives. Six Case Studies from Latin America

Hehir, J. Bryan, The Uses of Force in the Post-Cold War.

Helmick, Ray, S.J and Rodney Petersen, (eds) .Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Religion, Public Policy and Conflict Transformation (Foreword by Desmond Tutu)
Holsopple, Karall, Pittman, Building Peace: Overcoming Violence in Communities,
Jacques, Genevieve, Beyond Impunity: An Ecumenical Approach to Truth
Jersak, Brand and Michael Hardin (Eds) Non Violent Identification and the Victory of Christ
Kassamann, M., Overcoming Violence: The Challenge to the Churches in All Places
Kerber, Weierud, Afshaw, (eds) The Responsibility to Protest: Ethical and Theological Reflections ,

Lasserre, Jean, War and the Gospel

Lee, Philip (ed) Communication and Reconciliation: Challenges Facing the 21st Century ,
Mavunduse, Diane  and Simon Oxley Study Guide: Why Violence Not Peace?
Muller-Fahrenholz, Geiko, The Art of Forgiveness: Theological Reflections on Healing and Reconciliation
Plou, Daphne, Peace in Troubled Cities
Powers, Edward, Signs of Shalom .

Robertson, D.B. (ed.) Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

Rose, Thomas (ed) Violence in America: A Historical and Contemporary Reader
Taylor, Charles, A Secular Age 
Weaver, Dennis, The Non-violent Atonement
Weaver, Dennis Violence in Christian Theology (http://www.crosscurrents.org/weaver0701.htm
Wolterstorf, Nicholas, When Justice and Peace Embrace
World Council of Churches, Solidarity with Victims of Climate Change ,Justice, Peace and Creation,
Young, Jeremy, The Violence of God and the War on Terror,  NY:Seabury Books, 2008
Zimmerman, J. , H and R, Hess (eds) .Transforming Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacemaking