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Peace Paradigm Radio, September 20, Moral Mondays and Nonviolent Leadership
Get your dose of nonviolence inspiration for this week! Join Michael Nagler as he explores this week’s nonviolence in the news. Stephanie Van Hook shares a new segment on nonviolence in history, a collaboration between PPR, Metta Center and Lokashakti, and Russ Faur-Brauc meets President Obama in the Oval Office to talk to him about… 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
Syria: Lamp in the Storm
How can we can create the right vision to support indigenous nonviolence and unarmed civilian peacekeeping? by Michael Nagler posted Jul 30, 2012 posted at Yes! Magazine Share During the climactic “Quit India” campaign launched by Gandhi in 1942, there were outbreaks of violence. Earlier, in 1922, similar outbreaks had led him to suspend the non-cooperation… read more
Syria on the Brink: Can Nonviolence Bring Her Back?
Petaluma, California – When the Arab Spring was initiated by Mohammed Bouazizi’s self-immolation last year in Tunisia, it ignited longings for freedom throughout the region; more than that, it took hold of the creative imaginations of non-violent activists and millions of dissatisfied individuals around the world. Has this hope ground to a halt with the… read more
Occupy 2.0: The Great Turning
by Michael Nagler………Originally published at Yes! Magazine on April 5, 2012 The spinning wheel, and the spinning wheel alone, will solve the problem of the deepening poverty of India. —Mahatma Gandhi Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist. —E.F. Schumacher After a roaring start,… read more
Passivity or Violence: Is that the Only Choice?
By Michael Nagler Reprinted from Waging Nonviolence, Sept. 6, 2011 Between Libya, which has endured more than 2,000 NATO bombings, and Syria, where more than 2,000 civilians have been killed by their own government so far, we see the two traditional responses to a perceived need for intervention by the international community in regimes gone… read more
Libya: Acid Test for Nonviolence?
by Michael Nagler March 8, 2011, submitted first to Tikkun Magazine. The nonviolent revolution in Egypt has spread across the Mideast, but in Libya, unfortunately, the “revolution” was picked up without the “nonviolent.” I have been asked whether there is anything that nonviolence could nonetheless do in the face of the bloodbath that is going… read more
Shanti Sena
Shanti Sena, or peace army, was Gandhi’s proposed solution for the management of conflict through nonviolence, as opposed to the more traditional “threat power” employed by officers of the law and the State. His idea was to have trained volunteers living in the communities they would serve acting as trusted third parties. The volunteers could,… read more
The Ironies of Peace
In 1982 Mother Teresa of Calcutta stunned the world by announcing that she was going into a raging conflict in Beirut to rescue disabled children from an abandoned orphanage. It was during the bombardment that Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel called “Operation Peace [that word again] for Galilee.” It was a stunning gesture, perfectly… read more
