Lessons of Nonviolence

Tom H. Hastings teaches in the graduate program of Conflict Resolution at Portland State University.

• Table of ContentsForeword by Kathy Kelly      Preface and Acknowledgments      Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations      Part One: Introduction; or, The Value of Stories      1. Stories and Conflict Management      2. Master Narrative Versus Justice in the Margins      3. Theories of Nonviolent Power      Part Two: Civil Rights and Sequelae; or, An Expanded Movement      4. Expanding the Movement      5. Nonviolence and Long Term Success      6. Treaty Rights      Part Three: Gandhian Nonviolence; or, Industrialized War Meets Mass Liberatory Nonviolence      7. Blood, Oil and Nonviolence      8. Philippines, Timing and Training      9. Modern Buddhism and Gandhian Nonviolence      Part Four: Radical Disarmament; or, Plowshares-Style      10. The Nonviolence Just Conflict Doctrine      11. When Officials Fail Long Enough      12. Peace Journalism Prepares Society      Part Five: Eroding the War Machine; or, Boycotting War      13. Who Will Pay to Kill Kids?      14. Sanctions, Boycotts and Results      15. Not My Body      Part Six: War Poverty and Peace Prosperity; or, Living Large or Living in the Little Way      16. Potpourri or Popery? Catholic Worker Movement      17. Divide and Rule: War on the Poor      18. Buddhist Lifeways and Economies      Part Seven: Movement-Building; or, The Portland Story      19. Arts and Crafts of Organizing      20. A Permanent Movement      21. Lessons Learned      Part Eight: Teaching, Learning and Conclusions; or, Reflection Breeds Better Action      22. Gandhi Was Right: Experiments in Truth      23. Challenges to Nonviolence      24. Hope in the End      Index