Book Review: Champions for peace: Women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Authors

Patricia M. Mische, Co-founder, former president, Global Education AssociatesFollow

Abstract

Judith Hicks Stiehm is a political science professor who has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military and as a consultant to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and to the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. In earlier publications she explored nonviolent resistance in America (1973); analyzed and challenged the traditional protector/protected male and female roles in war, arguing that the path to gender equality entailed equal responsibility for military protection (1982); then turned to an examination of women in the military (1996), and military education. In Champions for Peace, Stiehm’s focus shifts to an examination of 16 women who were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She declares her purpose on the dedication page:

Historians too often praise reckless and arrogant leaders who send troops to wage war. This book is intended to encourage and to honor those who seek to avoid war without relinquishing the pursuit of justice.

Recommended Citation

Mische, Patricia M. (2020) "Book Review: Champions for peace: Women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize," The Journal of Social Encounters: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, 75-77.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol4/iss1/9