will present a Keynote address--

--at the "Visionary Voices: Alternatives to War" conference to be held in Vaasa, Finland. She will explain why, and how, the global community is poised to end war in two generations....or less. (see more information about the conference below).

AFWW founder and evolutionary biologist Dr. Judith Hand's latest book, Shift, The Beginning of War, The Ending of War, is now available. "To read "Reviews" and "Look Inside," go to Amazon.com to purchase. If you know you want the book, you can support Dr. Hand's work financially by buying directly from CreateSpace.com. 

 

Praise for Shift

 

I hold deep admiration for the great pioneering work of Dr. Judith Hand for a world without war, which is possible when people believe passionately and work for it. Shift explains "Why" and How" 

                         Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate

 

Judith Hand marshals knowledge and insight from biological, cultural, and political sciences to argue persuasively that now is the time in human development to extinguish the fires of war. She demonstrates that such a mammoth shift of human spirit and politics is possible, in fact crucial to human survival...she invites us to take part in this historical psychological, social, and institutional shift toward resolving differences through law with justice instead of bullets and bombs.

                  Douglas P. Fry, Ph.D.

                  Director of Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research

                  Åbo Akademi, University in Vasa, Finland

                  Author of Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

 

On a level with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring....Shift offers grounds for hope that we may be close to permanently ending our love affair with war.

                  Sean English, Ph.D.

                  Former Director of Saor-Ollscoil 

                       (The Free University of Ireland 2000-2007)

                  Convener, Peace Theories Commission of the 

                   International Peace Research Association (IPRA)

                   Author of The Collapse of the War System (2007)

 

In Shift: The Beginning of War, The Ending of War Judith Hand has written a book for the ages....Many of us have been waiting years to read a book like this.

                        Clarence "Sonny" Williams

                        Sr. Executive, Commercial Insurance Industry

 

 

Shift is written for:

• doing a research project on war or ending war;
• social transformation activists in civil society and faith-based communities;
• academics interested in human evolution and war, especially those in the fields of political science, anthropology, human evolutionary biology, and sociology;
• academics in women's studies, because Shift presents a unique theory for the nature of women's use of aggression and general aversion to war;
• any educated reader who is curious about war, from veterans who have personally seen or experienced war's many harms to mom's sending their children off to fight the next one.

  

Synopsis

 

"What if someone could convince you that we actually have the power to permanently end war? What if someone could convince you that once we resolve to make that happen, we could free ourselves from war in two generations or less?" With those words, evolutionary biologist Judith Hand opens her exploration of why we make war, when we started making war, and why and how we can, if we choose, move forward into a future without war. In accessible, clear language, Hand marshals knowledge and insight from biological, cultural, and political sciences to persuasively make her case. The depth and breadth of knowledge covered makes it essential reading for anyone interested in war and peace. The notion that we might actually be able to abolish war may seem utopian, but Dr. Hand explains why and how this achievement is possible. Shift: The Beginning of War, The Ending of War demonstrates that the current century blesses us with a rare but narrowing opportunity to achieve what generations before us could not. 

 

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--will be presented at the "Visionary Voices: Alternatives to War" conference to be held in Vaasa, Finland. The conference is organized by noted anthropologist Dr. Douglas P. Fry and the Peace, Mediation, and Conflict Research program of