This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to conflict.
This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to conflict.
Michael K. Duffey is associate professor emeritus and former director of the Interdisciplinary Major in Peace Studies at Marquette University. Duffey specializes in theological ethics with particular attention to issues of justice and peace, human rights, and Protestant and Catholic ethical methodologies. His most recent books are Sowing Justice, Reaping Peace: Case Studies of Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Healing Around the World and Peacemaking and the Challenge of Violence in World Religions (coedited with Irfan A Omar).
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Preface Introduction Chapter One A Hundred Years of Horrific War-making The Just War Tradition World Wars I and II Five U.S. wars of choice The war after the war When wars are unjust Chapter Two Mohandas Gandhi, the father of modern nonviolent, and war resistance Early life and South Africa Gandhi's principles Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India Nonviolent resistance to the Third Reich? Nonviolent resistance in occupied Denmark The rescue of Jews in Southern France Chapter Three Successful Nonviolent Revolutions "People Power" in the Philippines Poland's and East Germany's victory against Communism Serbia's "Otpor" Tunisia and the beginning of the Arab Spring Women's liberation in Liberia Chapter Four Systemic Racism from the Civil Rights Struggle to the Black Lives Matter Movement U.S. Civil Rights Movements in the 1960s. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Black Lives Matter Chapter Five Nonviolent Struggles U..S. Farm Laborers, Native Americans, and Black South Africans La Causa: justice for migrant farm workers Native Americans recovering the center Ending Apartheid in South Africa Chapter Six Violent America Empire Building, buying, and selling weapons "Wars" on the home front Citizen activism? Chapter Seven Citizen Movements against Violence Building blocks Challenging U.S. violence abroad Overcoming violence at home: systemic racism, poverty, and incarceration Gun violence Defending the environment Chapter Eight Nonviolence, world religions, and the virtues Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Indigenous Spiritualities Empathy Negative and positive "otherness" Justice and mercy Forgiveness and repentance Afterword Reaffirming the Power of Nonviolence Ireland's violent journey to peace How risky is nonviolence? Appendix One Two Unsuccessful Nonviolent Struggles for Justice: Egypt's Arab Spring and the Israel-Palestine conflict Appendix Two A Thought Experiment: Could emancipation have been achieved without the Civil War? Abolition, Congressional accommodation, and the Civil War Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction Chapter One A Hundred Years of Horrific War-making The Just War Tradition World Wars I and II Five U.S. wars of choice The war after the war When wars are unjust Chapter Two Mohandas Gandhi, the father of modern nonviolent, and war resistance Early life and South Africa Gandhi's principles Gandhi's nonviolent campaigns in India Nonviolent resistance to the Third Reich? Nonviolent resistance in occupied Denmark The rescue of Jews in Southern France Chapter Three Successful Nonviolent Revolutions "People Power" in the Philippines Poland's and East Germany's victory against Communism Serbia's "Otpor" Tunisia and the beginning of the Arab Spring Women's liberation in Liberia Chapter Four Systemic Racism from the Civil Rights Struggle to the Black Lives Matter Movement U.S. Civil Rights Movements in the 1960s. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Black Lives Matter Chapter Five Nonviolent Struggles U..S. Farm Laborers, Native Americans, and Black South Africans La Causa: justice for migrant farm workers Native Americans recovering the center Ending Apartheid in South Africa Chapter Six Violent America Empire Building, buying, and selling weapons "Wars" on the home front Citizen activism? Chapter Seven Citizen Movements against Violence Building blocks Challenging U.S. violence abroad Overcoming violence at home: systemic racism, poverty, and incarceration Gun violence Defending the environment Chapter Eight Nonviolence, world religions, and the virtues Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Indigenous Spiritualities Empathy Negative and positive "otherness" Justice and mercy Forgiveness and repentance Afterword Reaffirming the Power of Nonviolence Ireland's violent journey to peace How risky is nonviolence? Appendix One Two Unsuccessful Nonviolent Struggles for Justice: Egypt's Arab Spring and the Israel-Palestine conflict Appendix Two A Thought Experiment: Could emancipation have been achieved without the Civil War? Abolition, Congressional accommodation, and the Civil War Bibliography Index
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