Posts by Metta Center

GandhiServe

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A great resource for primary source searches. from their homepage: “GandhiServe, a charitable foundation registered in Germany, aims to spread the ethics of nonviolence by disseminating information about and popularizing Mahatma Gandhi’s life and works. GandhiServe Foundation hopes to help alleviate conflicts and inspire others through making available media and resources on Gandhi’s life and… read more

MAHATMA: film

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“This is a 5 hrs. 10 min. documentary biography of Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi. All events and principles of Gandhi’s life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values. The purpose of the film is to tell the present and the future generations “that such a man as… read more

Basics of Nonviolent Communication

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Nonviolent Communication is one way of applying the principles of nonviolence into our way of being in the world, and it facilitates our deepening relationships with others when the practices are internalized and made fluent by the person trying to use them. In this series of videos, Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the NVC practice, introduces… read more

Short video on the ‘nonviolence’ in Nonviolent Communication

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The Metta Center is not an organization that teaches Nonviolent Communication in workshops, but we work from the same worldview. Here is founder of Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg, describing, in his words, this worldview.  … read more

Nonviolent Social Movements: a geographical perspective

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Metta highly recommends this text from Zunes, Kurtz and Asher.   Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher (editors) (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999) Language: English 330 pages ISBN-10: 1577180763 ISBN-13: 978-1577180760   TABLE OF CONTENTS: Sources of Acknowledgments Notes on Editors and ContributorsIntroduction Part I: Perspectives on Nonviolent Movements 1. Nonviolence and Power… read more

African American History: Modern Freedom Struggle

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Watch it on FreeVideoLectures.Com Lecture Details : Lecture 1 of Clay Carson’s Introduction to African-American History Course (HIST 166) concentrating on the Modern Freedom Struggle (Fall 2007). Topics in this lecture include a course introduction and W.E.B. Du Bois. Recorded September 25, 2007 at Stanford University. This course introduces the viewer to African-American history, with… read more

Study by Chenoweth and Dugan: Punishment not effective response to terrorism

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DENVER, July 31 (UPI) — The consensus politically is that terrorism must be fought, but U.S. researchers said conciliatory tactics are more effective than punishment. Study co-authors Erica Chenoweth of the University of Denver and Laura Dugan of the University of Maryland said the study used data from the Center for the Study of Terrorism and… read more