(FROM CAL PEACE POWER: VOL 3 ISSUE 2 2007) BY Jerlina Love Printable Version: Download as PDF Children at an MST camp, in the state of Minas Gerais. (Photo by Joshua Thayer) The Landless Laborers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Terra or MST) is the most important new social movement in contemporary Latin America with over… read more
Welcome to the History Blog!
xxxNonviolent movements have been expanding at an accelerating rate since the days of Gandhi and King.
The living history of nonviolence is emerging constantly, and we shall endeavor to keep you in touch with these developments on this Blog!
March on Washington
Nonviolence in History: Sponsored by Lokashakti.org. For the first installment of this new, regular collaboration between the Metta Center, Peace Paradigm Radio, and Lokashakti, we focus on the March on Washington, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on Wednesday, the 28th of August. Coming in 1963 – a full 8 years after the modern US civil… read more
Who was Badshah Khan?
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan came to be known, over his objections, as the “Frontier Gandhi.” (Wikimedia) If you watched Malala Yousafzai’s much discussed and inspiring speech to the United Nations last week, you may have heard this courageous teenager — who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education — refer to Badshah Khan as a… read more
Peace Profiles: Sojourner Truth
Nonviolence is an integral part of American history, and not only because of Martin Luther King, Jr.! Peaceful activists were quite common in early America and in the rest of the world. Our Peace Profiles series focuses on one well known figure in History or current events who were/are deeply committed to pacifism, nonviolence, and… read more
The Philippine Peace Agreement: Let’s Maintain Diligence
By S. Francesca Po, Metta Center Strategic Advisory Council member. She is currently a doctoral student of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London, where she is teaching modules on Buddhism. Edited and originally posted at Open Democracy on May 1, 2013. Last year, the Philippine government struck a historic peace deal with the Islamist rebels. But… read more
Why Gender Matters For Building Peace
By Mary Elizabeth King First published on Waging Nonviolence, November 24th, 2011 One of the most extraordinary nonviolent, transnational movements of the modern age was the women’s suffrage movement of the first two decades of the 20th century. New Zealand first extended the franchise in the late 19th century—after two decades of organizing efforts. As… read more
Pushing the Powerful Into a Moral Corner at India’s Barefoot College
Women working in a solar engineering lab at Barefoot College. Photo by Miki Kashtan. By Miki Kashtan Originally posted on Waging Nonviolence, March 7th, 2012. One of the challenges that nonviolent campaigns face is how to engage those in power. Whether it be the British officials, as in Gandhi’s case, or the 1 percent, as… read more
The Power of Wangari Maathai
By Ken Butigan. First published on Waging Nonviolence, September 29th, 2011. The first thing Wangari Maathai did after being notified that she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize was to plant a tree in her backyard. She said she did this whenever she celebrated something. Maathai died of ovarian cancer [on September 25th, 2011] in Nairobi.… read more
