• Waging Nonviolence is a source for news, analysis, and original reporting about nonviolent activism, as well as for discussion of the theory behind it. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • This story was originally published on Waging Nonviolence . (nextcity.org)
  • Originally published in Waging Nonviolence . (fpif.org)
  • Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND) is an NGO which aspires to establish a non-violent Palestinian civil society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Green groups now stand on four fundamental principles: ecological wisdom, peace, participatory democracy, and social justice. (orionmagazine.org)
  • Her story highlights the transformative potential of grassroots democracy and inspires us to take action in our own communities. (lu.se)
  • King went on to nominate Thich Nhat Hanh for a Nobel Peace Prize a year later, calling him an "apostle of peace and nonviolence. (democracynow.org)
  • He focuses on promoting peace dialogue and transforming post-conflict societies, as well as teaching graduate courses on the methods and theory of nonviolence. (nonviolenceinternational.net)
  • The principles are grounded in the four pillars of Respect and Care for the Community of Life, Ecological Integrity, social and Economic Justice, and Democracy, Nonviolence, and Peace. (sacredearth.com)
  • The project was implemented in partnership with FXB foundation which lasted for 12 months and included several activities: organizing a 10 days training course on non-violence and various lectures on topics such as Human rights, civic education, political participation, democracy education, peace-building, conflict resolution, and tolerance which later empowered ambitious Palestinian youth to engage in community development. (palthink.org)
  • I think the Selma movement was about nonviolence and peace and democracy," she said. (upi.com)
  • Support our Peace and Nonviolence journalism with your donation. (pressenza.com)
  • He was really an embodiment of peace and gentleness and nonviolence," says Dear. (freespeech.org)
  • I shall continue to be a voice for non-violence, peace, democracy and reconciliation. (amnesty.org.au)
  • The book develops a novel theoretical and analytical framework and features chapters on violence, nonviolence, conflict transformation, peace talks and international mediation as well as on video data analysis. (lu.se)
  • With the concept of "Active Nonviolence" persuade the purpose to give the Palestinian civil society a perspective to solve their conflicts in the absence of violence. (wikipedia.org)
  • To launch this Nonviolence awareness MEND attempts an unconventional way of coming in contact with Palestinian Society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Workshops - MEND gives training to interested Palestinian (MENDers) students in active Nonviolence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jonathan Kuttab is a co-founder of Nonviolence International, a Palestinian Human Rights lawyer-and Christian pacifist. (nonviolenceinternational.net)
  • WE COUNTER Israel's 'Hasbara' (self promotion) strategy, designed to present Israel as a 'normal' advanced democracy, and to divert attention from the continuing occupation of Palestinian land and the discrimination against the Palestinian citizens of Israel. (jfjfp.com)
  • Risking arrest, activists from Campus Action for Democracy occupy the office of US Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-Indiana) on December 11, 2017. (blogspot.com)
  • 3 of the chapters are devoted to nonviolence and the work of his cousin Mubarak Awad who will also be joining the book launch. (nonviolenceinternational.net)
  • Maia has published widely in the fields of international relations, civil resistance, and international conflict management, including textbooks on International Conflict Management (2019, Routledge) and Nonviolence (2015, Polity). (nonviolenceinternational.net)
  • We are joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. (democracynow.org)
  • It's no coincidence that the man most associated in the minds of people on the planet with the word democracy, besides God, is that ignorant and superstitious nitwit, George Bush. (counterpunch.org)
  • After discussion of his book we will transition into talking about nonviolence and the future of Palestinians and Israelis today. (nonviolenceinternational.net)
  • The post-fascists won because they got to keep owning the country, and none of them had to go to jail for orchestrating the torture, imprisonment, and execution of hundreds of thousands at the end of the Civil War, and thousands more every time the working class raised its head, right on up into the last years of the regime and the years of the "Transition" to democracy. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • The recently founded "Iranian Nonviolence" (IN) initiative has been meeting weekly online to talk and learn about non-violence as an ethically evolved collaborative and peaceful approach to human interactions and to managing conflicts. (thealliancefordemocracy.org)
  • The guest at the group's upcoming session on Sunday, Feb. 5, is Prof. Michael Nagler, founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence . (thealliancefordemocracy.org)
  • The Center helps people develop, sustain, and deepen their commitment to nonviolence globally, and has Special Consultative Status at the United Nations. (thealliancefordemocracy.org)
  • Developed by the new economy research center Democracy Collaborative, the model is a simple one: First, identify anchor institutions - hospitals, universities, seats of government - that are not going to relocate in search of higher profits and incentivize them to do their procurement of supplies and services locally, so that those dollars stay at home. (nextcity.org)
  • page 2 préoccupations de l'Afrique en matière de santé. (who.int)
  • Before the bombing, there was a fledgling independent press and a strong movement for democracy. (johndear.org)
  • When I tell people that I don't believe in democracy, which is an arrangement that generally begins in slave states like ancient Greece and antebellum America, they look at me as if I had said I don't believe in goodness, or the Red Sox. (counterpunch.org)
  • From the moment we are born, we are subjected to a massive hard-sell on the glories of democracy by people who were themselves subjected to a massive hard-sell so thorough that it never crosses their minds that sending their power to distant bureaucracies is anything but an idea formed in heaven. (counterpunch.org)
  • Anytime groups of people get together in leaderville and something good happens, we say rapturously, "democracy now" and "thank God for democracy. (counterpunch.org)
  • It is highly unlikely, for example, that most people, given the choice, would have voted in favor of suddenly having a monarch (yes, that's right, the post-fascists went out and found a king to give the new democracy more centralization and stability). (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Though the new democracy was born on shaky ground, the rise of the Socialist Party and the institutionalization of the unions enabled many people who otherwise might have been revolutionaries to get on the government payroll. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Instead I'm part of an effort called Choose Democracy , which is prepping people for the possibility of a coup while keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process. (fpif.org)
  • People who do power grabs always claim they're doing it to save democracy or claim they know the "real" election results. (fpif.org)
  • In the escalating crisis surrounding Catalunya's October 1st independence referendum, both sides are legitimizing their actions through exclusive claims to democracy, insinuating or explicitly stating that they are democratic whereas their adversaries are anti-democratic. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Itís not too late to heed Dr. King and the wisdom of nonviolence. (johndear.org)
  • This principle of nonviolence towards animals was an established rule of ancient Indian religions as early as the 6th century BCE [1] . (lu.se)
  • As if life isn't hard enough, democracy urges you to tell some Joe who's claiming to "represent" you that he can have power over you. (counterpunch.org)
  • For this reason, MEND established a network of Active Nonviolence Centers over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. (wikipedia.org)
  • Their members have continued to be active democracy supporters - keeping Choice Voting at ASUCD and supporting the efforts of groups like Davis Citizens for Representation to move Choice Voting along at the city level (for Davis City Council elections). (daviswiki.org)
  • At which point, the seven of us who were risking arrest sat down on the floor in order to demonstrate our peacefulness and nonviolence in the situation as the police entered. (blogspot.com)
  • You can read some fuller case studies from Choose Democracy or a longer evidence-based handbook for this moment from " Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy . (fpif.org)
  • Liu was in 2008 a co-author of Charta 08, a manifesto advocating democracy and respect for human rights in China, which he was subsequently arrested for and later sentenced to eleven years of imprisonment for inciting subversion of state power, a charge that Liu constantly denied (Nobel Prize, 2013). (lu.se)
  • Due to this, the Iraq war that Liu Xiaobo justifies in terms of spreading freedom and democracy cannot be justified in that way, since the consequences of the problem representation might lead to the very opposite. (lu.se)
  • They are Ph.D. candidates or graduate students at Indiana University, and all are involved in Campus Action for Democracy. (blogspot.com)
  • He reached out to Ted Howard from the Democracy Collaborative and, looking back on the last 10 years, the resulting collaboration can be seen as transformative. (nextcity.org)
  • Well, okay, it's true, I don't, and I don't, but not believing in goodness is a complicated philosophical argument, and baseball is what it is, but resistance to democracy, a silly way of sending your power away from yourself and your neighborhood, is intuitively pretty appealing. (counterpunch.org)