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• Guide for Discussion Leaders (GI Rountable #1; 1944), by Donald W. Goodrich
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• From Workplace to Workspace: Using Email Lists to Work Together (1998), by Maureen James and Liz Rykert (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum (c1998), ed. by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Net.Wars (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Wendy Grossman (multiple formats at NYU)

• Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Wikipedia: The Missing Manual (online Wikipedian-edited edition; originally published 2008), by John Broughton (at en.wikipedia.org)

• Bargaining and Markets (electronic edition; with corrections from 1990 edition), by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein (PDF files with commentary at Toronto)

• Annual Report of the National Mediation Board, by United States National Mediation Board (full serial archives)

• Compassionate Listening: An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation (2012), by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Cynthia Monroe, and Leah Green, ed. by Dennis Rivers (PDF at communication-skills.net)
• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report with Executive Summary, by Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (HTML, PDF, and Word at ccpdc.org)

• The United States and the Transformation of African Security: The African Crisis Response Initiative and Beyond (1997), by Dan Henk and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Achieving Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cost Effective Alternatives to the Military (2004), ed. by Geoff Harris (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• The Challenge of Stability and Security in West Africa (Washington: World Bank, c2015), by Alexandre Marc, Neelam Verjee, and Stephen Mogaka (PDF with commentary at World Bank)

• A Tortuous Road to Peace: The Dynamics of Regional, UN and International Humanitarian Interventions in Liberia (2005), ed. by Festus B. Aboagye and Alhaji M. S. Bah (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Who Intervenes? Ethnic Conflict and Interstate Crisis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by David Carment, Patrick James, and Zeynep Taydas (PDF at Ohio State)

• The UN's Role in Nation-Building: From the Congo to Iraq (Santa Monica, CA et al: RAND, c2005), by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, Andrew Rathmell, Brett D. Steele, Richard Teltschik, and Anga Timilsina (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)

• Challenges of Peace Implementation: The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003), ed. by Mark Malan and João Gomes Porto (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• Cultivating Peace: Conflict and Collaboration in Natural Resource Management, ed. by Daniel Buckles (PDF and illustrated HTML at idrc.ca)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Naazneen Barma (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Building a Peace Economy? Liberal Peacebuilding and the Development-Security Industry (Manchester, UK and New York: Manchester University Press, c2014), by Jenny H. Peterson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Forgotten Peace: Mediation at Niagara Falls, 1914 (c2009), by Michael Small (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• Statement of the Relations of Rufus W. Griswold With Charlotte Myers (Called Charlotte Griswold), Elizabeth F. Ellet, Ann S. Stephens, Samuel J. Waring, Hamilton R. Searles, and Charles D. Lewis, With Particular Reference to Their Late Unsuccessful Attempt to Have Set Aside the Decree Granted in 1852 by the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, in the Case of Griswold vs. Griswold (Philadelphia: H. B. Ashmead, 1856), by Rufus W. Griswold
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill, by Caroline Sheridan Norton (HTML at Indiana)

• International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (2000), ed. by Paul C. Stern and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Overcoming Obstacles to Peace: Local Factors in Nation-Building (c2013), by James Dobbins, Laurel Miller, Stéphanie Pézard, Christopher S. Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, and Tewodaj Mengistu (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)
• The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building (Santa Monica et al.: RAND, c2007), by James Dobbins, Seth G. Jones, Keith Crane, and Beth Cole DeGrasse (PDF and Epub with commentary at rand.org)
• Human Security for All: A Tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, 2004), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• From War to Peace in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2019), by Daniel Paul Serwer (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• Arafat's Culture of Hatred and Violence: Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Hatred in the Palestinian Authority's Media, Schools, Summer Camps, Religious Sermons and Officials' Speeches (New York: Zionist Organization of America, ca. 2000), by Zionist Organization of America (PDF at zoa.org)

• NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville (2006), ed. by Helen Hakena, Peter Ninnes, and Bert A. Jenkins (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (New York: J. Cape and H. Smith, c1929), by Lynd Ward
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Wikimedia Commons

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• Bending Opinion: Essays on Persuasion in the Public Domain (Leiden: Leiden University Press, c2011), ed. by Ton van Haaften, Henrike Jansen, Jaap de Jong, and Willem Koetsenruijter, contrib. by I. Sluiter, Manfred Kraus, Marie Formarier, Christian Kock, J. Anthony Blair, Daniel J. O'Keefe, Arnolda Francisca Snoeck Henkemans, Henrike Jansen, Marianne Dingemanse, Ingrid Persoon, B. A. Andeweg, Hilde van Belle, Joel Best, Peter Burger, Lotte Anemaet, Gabry Vanderveen, Susan Hogben, Cezar Ornatowski, Bart van Klink, Oliver Lembcke, Pablo Leandro Ciocchini, Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Baldwin van Gorp, Mary Vander Goot, Anders Horsbøl, Lisa S. Villadsen, and E. T. Feteris (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• The American Debater: Being a Plain Exposition of the Principles and Practice of Public Debate (New York et al.: Ivison and Phinney, 1855), by James N. McElligott (multiple formats at Google)
• The Art of Controversy (in German and English), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by T. Bailey Saunders
  • HTML at coolhaus.de
  • Gutenberg text

• The Complete Debater's Manual (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Charles Walter Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007), by Williamjames Hoffer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Die Parlamentarische Obstruktion, ihre Geschichte und ihre Bedeutung (in German; Dresden: v. Zahn und Jaensch, 1904), by Erich Brandenburg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Pocket Manual of Rules of Order For Deliberative Assemblies (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1876), by Henry M. Robert (Gutenberg text)
• Reed's Parliamentary Rules: A Manual of General Parliamentary Law, With Suggestions for Special Rules, by Thomas B. Reed (HTML at wa.gov)
• Robert's Rules of Order Revised (1915 edition), by Henry M. Robert (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Your Farm Bureau (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1958), by Alice Sturgis, contrib. by Richard Armour, illust. by Leo Hershfield and Alan Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dissenting Church: Exploring the Theological Power of Conflict and Disagreement (Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2024), ed. by Judith Gruber, Michael Schüssler, and Ryszard Bobrowicz
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Nature Link
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

More items available under broader and related terms at left.