From Fear to Hope: Alternative Australian Narratives of War and Peacemaking

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This book scrutinises peace and war through Australian lenses. It uncovers a deeper understanding of these terms and reflects a desire to bring to light alternative Australian ideas of war and peacemaking. Certain stories have eclipsed others that add importantly to Australias history. This Quaker initiative considers a plurality of voices and the truths they purport. It unpacks the act of memorialising to discover the marked impact we make in our efforts to hold on to meaning and to our past. What have been the effects of our responses to the maxim Lest we forget?