Beginning back in the waning days of the Civil Rights movement, through the objection to the war in Vietnam, and on to the current global peace movement, this is a personal and professional account offered for the reader curious about whether and how nonviolence works. Topics include Gandhian nonviolence, radical disarmament, war poverty and peace prosperity and movement-building.

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

Tom H. Hastings

Foreword by Kathy Kelly

Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 228
Bibliographic Info: notes, references, index
Copyright Date: 2006
pISBN: 978-0-7864-2773-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0845-7
Imprint: McFarland

Foreword by Kathy Kelly      1
Preface and Acknowledgments      5
Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations      9

Part One: Introduction; or, The Value of Stories      11
1. Stories and Conflict Management      17
2. Master Narrative Versus Justice in the Margins      22
3. Theories of Nonviolent Power      30

Part Two: Civil Rights and Sequelae; or, An Expanded Movement      37
4. Expanding the Movement      45
5. Nonviolence and Long Term Success      48
6. Treaty Rights      53

Part Three: Gandhian Nonviolence; or, Industrialized War Meets Mass Liberatory Nonviolence      61
7. Blood, Oil and Nonviolence      77
8. Philippines, Timing and Training      81
9. Modern Buddhism and Gandhian Nonviolence      83

Part Four: Radical Disarmament; or, Plowshares-Style      87
10. The Nonviolence Just Conflict Doctrine      100
11. When Officials Fail Long Enough      103
12. Peace Journalism Prepares Society      106

Part Five: Eroding the War Machine; or, Boycotting War      111
13. Who Will Pay to Kill Kids?      112
14. Sanctions, Boycotts and Results      124
15. Not My Body      128

Part Six: War Poverty and Peace Prosperity; or, Living Large or Living in the Little Way      137
16. Potpourri or Popery? Catholic Worker Movement      140
17. Divide and Rule: War on the Poor      154
18. Buddhist Lifeways and Economies      158

Part Seven: Movement-Building; or, The Portland Story      161
19. Arts and Crafts of Organizing      162
20. A Permanent Movement      173
21. Lessons Learned      177

Part Eight: Teaching, Learning and Conclusions; or, Reflection Breeds Better Action      187
22. Gandhi Was Right: Experiments in Truth      189
23. Challenges to Nonviolence      209
24. Hope in the End      211

Index      215