WRI books, reports, and co-publications
available on the Internet
Online books:
- Bart Horeman and Marc Stolwijk Refusing to Bear Arms: A worldwide survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service (paper edition, War Resisters' International, London 1998) ISBN 0 903517 16 7. Published online by WRI/Concodoc in 2001, with updates to European countries by Quaker Council on European Affairs (QCEA) in 2005.
- Bart Horeman and Marc Stolwijk Proyecto de Documentación sobre Conscripción y Objeción de Conciencia (CO law in 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries, translated from relevant reports in Refusing to Bear Arms by ROLC -- now available solely on the WRI website.)
- Emily Miles A Conscientious Objector's Guide to the UN Human Rights System (WRI and QUNO, May 2000)
- Brian Martin Technology for Nonviolent Struggle, War Resisters' International, London 2001. Available online in HTML and PDF format.
- Brian Martin Nonviolence versus Capitalism, War Resisters' International, London 2001. Available online in HTML and PDF format.
- Mitzi Bales ed. Opening Doors to Peace: a memorial to Myrtle Solomon, War Resisters' International, London 1991.
- Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore, eds. Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence, War Resisters' International, London 1991. Papers from the 1990 Bradford conference on social defence, plus Social Defence: Arguments and actions by Brian Martin. Also available as a single download.
- Chris Ney ed. Nonviolence and Social Empowerment (WRI 2001-2005). Papers from the 2001 Orissa conference on nonviolence and social empowerment. Also available as a PDF file (A5 paper size: you can print two-up to save paper but set the printer to enlarge pages to fit).
Online dossiers and reports (over 100k)
War Resisters' International posts shorter reports and articles on a regular basis. See the Right to Refuse to Kill, Nonviolence Programme, and Dealing with the Past homepages, as well as the 1998 Triennial Conference, 2002 Triennial Conference, and former-Yugoslavia archive pages.
Selected longer articles and occasional papers from the pre-1990 WRI archives
Paper copies of WRI publications 1968-present
Devi Prasad: War is a Crime against Humanity: The Story of The War Resisters' International (London, 2006: War Resisters' International). An information page, with links to the WRI shop and to reviews on external sites, is available on this site.
Several WRI titles and WRI-related publications are available through the WRI online shop. Link here for the: United Kingdom | Europe | rest of world versions of the WRI shop.
Paper and microform archives
- Index to the War Resisters' International archive at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
- A microfiche collection of WRI papers for the years 1923-1974 was published by Harvester Press in 1977 and can be found in various university and specialised libraries.
- Catalogue description: "The archival documents have been organized chronologically within the following categories: pamphlets, 1921-1974; Bulletin of War Resisters' International (later The War Resister and then War Resistance), 1923-1974; annual appeals and related documents, 1934-1974; minutes of council meetings and international council meetings, 1926-1974; minutes of executive committee meetings and supplementary papers, 1955-1974; secretary's report, 1947-1974; WRI Newsletter, 1962-1974; press releases, 1964-1974; and Training in Non-Violence, 1968-1973."