Full Description
What is the basis for choosing a nonviolent response to conflict and violence? By presenting and analyzing some of the most significant answers that have been given to this question throughout history, this anthology of writings from both Western and nonwestern traditions proposes principled and strategic nonviolence as a realistic alternative. It includes a selection of historical sources on nonviolence—ranging from the Bhagavad-Gita to the Bible—as well as a wide range of writings by authors such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, who have contributed to both the theory and the practice of nonviolence. Besides tracing the historical development of the concept, this volume also suggests ways of applying nonviolence to our everyday lives in the first decade of the 21st century, which the United Nations General Assembly has declared to be the Decade for Education for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence.
Contents
Foreword Introduction Historical Sources of Nonviolence Bhagavad-Gita Crito The Sermon on the Mount A Jain Prayer Peace Seeds Historical Voices of Nonviolence Civil Disobedience Ahimsa or The Way of Nonviolence Selections from Gandhi's Autobiography Letter from Birmingham Jail Contemporary Voices of Nonviolence The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The Almond Tree in Your Front Yard Selections from Long Walk to Freedom Contemporary Issues and Women's Voices of Nonviolence Speciesism Today Selections from: Race Matters Draft of a Global Program It Is All About Human/Civil Rights Taking Empirical Data Seriously: An Ecofeminist Philosophical Perspective Let Us Survive: Women, Ecology, and Develoment Application of Nonviolence The Importance of Strategic Planning in Nonviolent Struggle The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution The Interfaith Movement: The Present Reality The 1989 Democratic Uprising in China: A Nonviolent Perspective The Global Spread of Active Nonviolence Gandhian Satyagraha and the Chipko Movement Silence in the Brandenburg Gate Selected Bibliography Index
