Recommended Books & Resources
A Season for Nonviolence Resource Library
Compiled by the Assoc. for Global New
Thought, this site is a rich resource of ideas, programs and tools designed to promote the teaching of the principles and
practices of nonviolence for the healing and transformation of our lives and our communities. (
www.agnt.org )
If you would like to learn about Gandhi's ideas using the Wisdom of Gandhi
curriculum (based on the book, Gandhi, the Man, by Eknath Easwaran) you may:
Order the book
HERE. Download the study guide HERE.
ENGAGE: Exploring Nonviolent
Living
Full of stories, exercises and resources, Engage is a workbook to learn, study and practice the nonviolent
options available to us as we seek to create a society committed to justice, democracy, peace, sustainability and equality.
A product of the Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service based on their countless trainings, it is highly recommended by Michael Nagler
and Arun Gandhi. (
www.paceebene.org )
The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michel Nagler
This classic text on nonviolence explores the history of nonviolence and the tough questions facing our society today. Through
a historical and spiritual approach, Prof. Nagler demonstrates that nonviolence is an effective solution and an urgently needed
response to political, social, and moral turmoil around the world today.
Free Study Guide available from
www.mettacenter.org
Also see streaming video class lectures by Prof. Michael Nagler, UC Berkeley:
Introduction
to Nonviolence: An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi.
Historical overview of nonviolence East and West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence Today: The development of nonviolence since the Civil Rights movement. Nonviolent theory and practice seen in
recent insurrectionary movements (freedom struggles) and social justice struggles in the emerging world of global corporatism.
Hope
or Terror: Gandhi & the Other 9/11, by Michael Nagler
This concise 42 page booklet by Michael
Nagler, Gandhian scholar and founder of Peace & Conflict Studies program at UC Berkeley, sums up Gandhi's Nonviolence
movement in South Africa and India, as well as many other successful nonviolence campaigns in the 20th century, pointing to
a hopeful alternative to the current posture of fear and aggression in the face of conflict.
There Are Realistic Alternatives, by Gene Sharp
This 54-page booklet (free download)
is a short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments,
this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. (
www.aeinstein.org )
Also see streaming video lecture: Gene Sharp, "The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle"
Video: "A Force More Powerful"
A three-hour PBS documentary
series (broken down in half-hour segments), this video reveals how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian
rule in six key struggles in the 20th Century.
