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A New Age of Nonviolence is the first exploration of nonviolent
strategies and tactics that have been used to prevent and end civil
wars, invasions, and occupations. Keeping with the theoretical core
objective of the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, the problem
of war is examined with the goal to transform destructive conflict
to constructive conflict. Research into alternatives has produced a
growing corpus of knowledge that can enable civil society to
increasingly expect success when it engages decision-makers in
these controversies. This book asks the reader to consider the
questions of social conflict using a cost-benefit analysis that
reveals the advisability of strategic nonviolence. Causes and
correlates to war research is robust and examined as a series of
common set of motivators to conflict, and when that research is
filtered against the results of research into comparisons of
conflict management methods, conclusions about potential strategies
for ending war emerge and indeed are examined both in aggregate and
in select case studies that show growing success.
Beginning back in the waning days of the Civil Rights movement,
through the objection to the war in Vietnam, and on to the current
global peace movement, this is a personal and professional account
offered for the reader curious about whether and how nonviolence
works. Topics include Gandhian nonviolence, radical disarmament,
war poverty and peace prosperity and movement-building.
In Power, Tom Hastings unpacks the methods, and considers causes
and correlatives to violence and nonviolence. Hastings presents an
overview of nonviolent power potential, examining it on personal,
community, and transnational levels. He provides evidence of
theories and historical records of nonviolent power through
personal stories and the annals of human kind. Nonviolent
alternatives are proposed and considered.
Terrorism, which by definition targets civilians, is unacceptable,
but a violent response to violence usually causes more violence.
This book outlines some of the best thinking about nonviolent
methods of resisting terrorism in the growing fields of
international aid and nonviolent interposition.
The first section covers immediate nonviolent response to
terrorism: international negotiations, mediations, and
adjudication, UN and citizen sanctions, cross-cultural
communication, citizen initiatives, international treaties and the
World Court, the International Criminal Court, and nonviolent
resistance through raising consciousness to mobilization and
resisting state-sponsored terror. The second section, on long-term
non-violent response to terrorism, discusses halting arms trade and
militarism, stoppingarms flow to terrorists, "defunding" the
military, building sustainable and just economies, aid to the poor,
reducing privileged over-consumption, peace and conflict education,
understanding and using the media, refugee repatriation, and
helping indigenous liberation struggles.
Meek Ain't Weak is a fresh examination of the indigenous roots of
mass liberatory nonviolence. From African regions to South American
culture, from Asian worldviews to the wisdom of the ancients of the
subcontinent, the origins of nonviolent conduct in conflict are
both important and ignored. This new approach to understanding
national liberation and nonviolence will be of interest to those
who study identity conflict, strategic studies, peace studies,
international studies and the theory and practice of nonviolence.
How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the
environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are
possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict
dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these
questions in readable prose with an unapologetic bias toward
non-violence.
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