Disturbing the Peace: the Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-DEC-06

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DISTURBING THE PEACE: THE STORY OF FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS AND THE MOVEMENT TO CLOSE THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS

James Hodge and Linda Cooper

Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004

244 pages, paper, $20.00

In this era of globalization, understanding international issues and relations is imperative. In my case, while a graduate seminarian in the early 1990s, the liberation theologies and movements of Latin America drew my attention. I began to apprehend that, in addition to learning the general background and contemporary reality of those nations, it was crucial for me and my fellow Americans to know our own country's role in the Latin American context. I was humbled and horrified to realize that often our silence became the voice of complicity, allowing untold atrocities to occur throughout the world.

In Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas, we hear the narrative of a man and a movement that...

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