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The Search for a Nonviolent Future: a Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World. Makawao, Maui, HI: Inner Ocean Publishing (2004). Original edition: Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001 (Winner of American Book Award, 2002; translated into Italian, Croatian, Korean, and several other languages) The Steps of Nonviolence ...
ISBN 0-87558-162-5 Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential, by Gene Sharp with collaboration of Joshua Paulson and the assistance of Christopher A. Miller and Hardy Merriman; ISBN 978-1442217607 Violence and Nonviolence: An Introduction, by Barry L. Gan; ISBN 9780367479237 Violence and Non-violence across Times.
The earliest reference to the idea of non-violence to animals (pashu-Ahimsa), apparently in a moral sense, is in the Kapisthala Katha Samhita of the Yajurveda (KapS 31.11), which may have been written in about 1500-1200 BCE. [30] [25] [page needed] [26] [page needed] John Bowker states the word appears but is uncommon in the principal ...
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]
J. Edward Guinan (1936–2014) – Founder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) – American anti-war protester and musician, inspiration Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) – 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet , Nobel Peace Prize laureate and spiritual and formerly temporal ruler of Tibet and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict; International Coalition for the Decade; International Day of Non-Violence; International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World
Maganlal Gandhi, grandson of an uncle of Mahatma Gandhi, came up with the word "Sadagraha" and won the prize. Subsequently, to make it clearer, Gandhi changed it to Satyagraha. "Satyagraha" is a tatpuruṣa compound of the Sanskrit words satya (meaning "truth") and āgraha ("polite insistence", or "holding firmly to"). Satya is derived from the ...
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence is a 1969 book about Mahatma Gandhi by the German-born American developmental psychologist Erik H. Erikson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction [1] and the U.S. National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion. [2] The book was republished in 1993 by Norton. [3]