5.14.07 creating a culture of nonviolence

A Politics of Inclusion: An Interview with Egyptian Democracy Advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Following a fire in the Qale't el-Kabsh slum of Cairo, residents were promised replacement housing and compensation, but many received nothing. After a prosecutor told residents and the Egyptian Center for Housing Rights that they would not pursue
Authors: Saad Eddin Ibrahim

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Women got upset and marched to the Royal Palace. The King called me and said, 'Saad, do you see what is happening?' I said, 'Yes, but that is democracy, your Majesty.'

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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Brave Jail: Repression Met with Waves of Resistance

Syrian stamps celebrating the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Photo: Joseph Morris
Authors: Dr. Radwan Ziadeh

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Ali Abdullah has been jailed three times. One of his sons is serving a five-year sentence for involvement in a pro-democracy youth group. The other chose exile.

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Diversity is the Revolution: The Tharwa Manifesto for Nonviolent Change in the Middle East

Families of Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Egyptian men who disappeared into Syrian prisons during the Lebanese civil war staged a sit-in protest in front of the UN House in Beirut for more than a year. photo: E. Zarwan,June 27, 2006
Authors: Ammar Abdulhamid

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We approach our struggle in the spirit of hope, love, and magnanimity.

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Mapping Political Violence: A Review of Bomb after Bomb: A Violent Cartography

Grenada painting
Authors: Ashley Hinson

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Ink craters the pages.

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The Suffering CO of Baghdad

Authors: Jim Loney

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The Pakistan Emergency: Letter from a Local Activist

Demonstrators with flowers
Authors: Abira Ashfaq

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The lawyers' demands shook the core of the military establishment.

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Is Nonviolence the Only Way?

Authors: George Lakey

Summary:What's the more effective way, under what conditions, to defend against repressive violence -- answering violence, or explicit and strategic nonviolent struggle?

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Guidelines to Promote Nonviolent Dialogue on the Peacework Site

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Peacework Magazine has chronicled global thought and local action for nonviolent social change for the past three decades. We have back issues of Peacework online from 1999-present, and have indexed on this site articles from 2006-present.

Now, we are very excited to engage people online in discussions about how to create peace and justice for all people. Here are the guidelines for our community to ensure that the blogs and forums on Peacework Magazine are a welcoming place for dialogue.

The US Uses Nuclear Weapons the Way Armed Robbers Use Guns

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Authors: Paul Joseph

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Paul Joseph, reviews Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Nuclear weapons are different. We need to think differently too.

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Practicing Peace

Practicing Peace
Authors: Wendy Sanford

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Stories from centuries of Quaker peacemaking have much to offer those of us seeking to practice peace today. I don't know about you, but I need guidance and inspiration for the humble, daily walk of practicing peace. Being preached at doesn't help, nor does being told to suppress my anger and be nice. Nor, in fact, does having peacemaking saints and heroes held up and idealized, because I compare myself to them and feel inadequate.

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007
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