Overview: Strategic and Principled NV; What to Look For II

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Contents

00:00—09:00
09:00—15:22
15:22—20:50
20:50—32:50
32:50—41:00
41:27—47:44
47:45—49:00
49:00—55:34
55:35—58:00
58:00—1:00:45
1:01:05—end		 Introduction and review, relationship between means and ends, Boulding’s “three faces of power”
Strategic nonviolence, principled nonviolence, withdrawal of consent and not yielding to threats  
Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions – paradigm breakdown and shift
Differences between strategic and principled nonviolence, negative and positive peace.
Concept and etymology of Ahimsa, nonviolence as the transformation of a negative drive
The story of Duffy, the fasting dog 🙂
Persuasion vs. coercion
Rules for fasting
What is and isn’t ‘violence,’ structural violence
Gandhi and fasting, the story of Gandhi and the little boy who was eating too much sugar
Rules of fasting continued.

Readings

Section 1a of the course reader.

  • Lanza del Vasto, Warriors of Peace. 1974 [excerpt]
  • Kenneth Boulding: “The Place of Nonviolence in a General Theory of Power”
  • M.K. Gandhi: “Four Basic Terms” from The Harijan. 1920
  • Ralph Summy: “Nonviolence and the Case of the Extremely Ruthless Opponent” from Legacy and Future of Nonviolence by True & Adams 1996
  • Key Terms Pamphlet by the Einstein Institution Arne Naess: Gandhi and Group Conflict: An Exploration of Satyagraha. 1974 [excerpts]

Easwaran, Eknath. Gandhi the Man, Flinders section
Nagler, Michael. Search for a Nonviolent Future, Chapters 1-2
Abu-Nimer, Mohammed. Nonviolence and Peacebuilding in Islam, 5-25 (recommended)

Resources

Rules for Fasting