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Peace Studies, Research Resources

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SCC Peace Institute - Podcasts

SCC Peace Institute - Podcast Videos
"Unlocking the Master Narrative" series of videos presented by SCC Peace Institute faculty, Professor Angela Davis Wizner and Dr. Scott Finnie.
Unlocking the Master Narrative - Episode 1. Living Black
Unlocking the Master Narrative - Episode 2. Living Indigenous
Unlocking the Master Narrative - Episode 3. Russia's Wat on Ukraine
Unlocking the Master Narrative - Episode 4. Living Latinx: The Journey from Guatemala

Featured videos on the web

Why We Hate
From the Discovery Channel, an "exploration into the human condition of hatred and how we can overcome it." (Series produced by Steven Spielberg and others.)
The Violence Paradox (2019)
"Is violence actually declining? If so, why? And can we build a more peaceful future?"

DVDs in the SCC Library

5 Broken Cameras
Call Number: 956.9405 FIVE 2013
Best of Enemies
Call Number: 791.4372 BEST OF
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case of the Stolen Election
Call Number: 364.1323 BEST MO 2017
Chasing Ice
Call Number: 551.5253 CHASING 2013
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
Children Underground
Call Number: 305.2308 CHILDRE 2002
The Christmas Truce
Call Number: 940.4144 CHRISTM 2002
Dirty Wars
Call Number: 355.3432 DIRTY W 2013
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Call Number: 791.4372 DR
End of the Line
Call Number: SCC Library Use Movies: 333.956 END OF 2009
The Final Year
Call Number: 327.73 FINAL Y 2018
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Call Number: 973.92 FOG OF 2004
Fuocoammare = Fire at Sea
Call Number: 325.4 FIRE AT 2017
Gandhi
Call Number: 791.4372 GANDHI 2007
Ghosts of Rwanda
Call Number: 967.571 GHOSTS 2004
The Grapes of Wrath
Call Number: 791.4372 GRAPES 2004
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Call Number: 305.4206 HALF 2012
Harlan County USA
Call Number: 331.8928 HARLAN
Hidden in Plain Sight: Fighting Homelessness in Spokane
Call Number: 362.5 HIDDEN 2019
Hotel Rwanda
Call Number: 791.4372 HOTEL R 2005
Inequality for All
Call Number: 330.973 INEQUAL 2014
The Killing Fields
Call Number: 791.4372 KILLING 2001
La bataille d'Alger = The battle of Algiers
Call Number: 303.66 WOOD 2016
Last Men in Aleppo
Call Number: 956.9104 LAST ME 2018
Medium Cool
Call Number: 791.4372 MEDIUM 2013
Mitt
Call Number: 324.973 MITT 2015
Mooz-Lum
Call Number: 791.4372 MOOZ-LUM 2011
Nixon
Call Number: 973.924 NIXON 2008
On Her Shoulders by Nadia Murad
Call Number: 956.7044 ON HER 2019
Persepolis
A Small Act
Call Number: 378.3 SMALL A 2010
Shoah
Call Number: 940.5318 SHOAH 2003
The Unknown Known
Call Number: 352.293 UNKNOWN 2014
Thirteen Days
Call Number: 973.922 THIRTEE 2000
Thirteen Days in October: Cuban Missile Crisis
Call Number: 973.922 THIRTEE 2007
Voices in Wartime
Call Number: 303.66 VOICES 2005
The War
Call Number: 791.4372 WAR 1999
The War: A Ken Burns Film
Call Number: 940.5373 WAR 2007
Why We Fight
Call Number: Call Number: 355.02 WHY WE 2006
We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes
Call Number: 970.0049 WE SHALL 2009
Welcome to Leith
Call Number: 320.56 WELCOME 2015

Faculty and others are welcome to suggest information resources for this page, or suggest resources you'd like the library to add to the Peace Studies collection.

Send your suggestions to Peace Studies faculty, Angela Wizner and Molly Popchock, or send directly to librarian, Janine Odlevak.

We heartily welcome your input!