War No More

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).

We may feel more divided than ever, but this volume gives perspective to the multitude of times in human history when deep divisions have characterized our world and shows how nonviolence was used to bridge those divides. If you are looking to turn your students on to the study of nonviolence, this is the book for you. The incisive case studies included reveal the truly global nature of nonviolent social change. This is an accessible study that considers many angles from which to explore the who, what, when, and why of nonviolence.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One A Hundred Years of Horrific War-makingThe Just War TraditionWorld Wars I and IIFive U.S. wars of choiceThe war after the warWhen wars are unjustChapter Two Mohandas Gandhi, the father of modern nonviolent, and war resistanceEarly life and South AfricaGandhi’s principlesGandhi’s nonviolent campaigns in IndiaNonviolent resistance to the Third Reich?Nonviolent resistance in occupied DenmarkThe rescue of Jews in Southern FranceChapter Three Successful Nonviolent Revolutions“People Power” in the PhilippinesPoland’s and East Germany’s victory against CommunismSerbia’s “Otpor”Tunisia and the beginning of the Arab SpringWomen’s liberation in LiberiaChapter Four Systemic Racism from the Civil Rights Struggle to the Black Lives Matter MovementU.S. Civil Rights Movements in the 1960s. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeMalcolm X and the Black Panther Party for Self-DefenseBlack Lives MatterChapter Five Nonviolent Struggles U..S. Farm Laborers, Native Americans, and Black South AfricansLa Causa: justice for migrant farm workersNative Americans recovering the centerEnding Apartheid in South AfricaChapter Six Violent AmericaEmpireBuilding, buying, and selling weapons“Wars” on the home frontCitizen activism?Chapter Seven Citizen Movements against ViolenceBuilding blocksChallenging U.S. violence abroadOvercoming violence at home: systemic racism, poverty, and incarcerationGun violenceDefending the environmentChapter Eight Nonviolence, world religions, and the virtues Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Indigenous SpiritualitiesEmpathyNegative and positive “otherness”Justice and mercyForgiveness and repentanceAfterwordReaffirming the Power of NonviolenceIreland’s violent journey to peaceHow risky is nonviolence?Appendix One Two Unsuccessful Nonviolent Struggles for Justice:Egypt’s Arab Spring and the Israel-Palestine conflictAppendix Two A Thought Experiment: Could emancipation have been achieved without the Civil War?Abolition, Congressional accommodation, and the Civil WarBibliographyIndex