Solutions to Violence

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Seventy-seven essays by various authors.

Contents:
• Edward Guinan - If we listen well
• Peter Ackerman and Peter York - Force more powerful
• Gerard A. Vanderhaar - Nonviolent response to assault
• Alfie Kohn - Human nature isn't inherently violent
• Lanzo del Vasto - Axioms of nonviolence
• Colman McCarthy - Students astutely aware
• Dorothy Day - Love is the measure ; Poverty and precarity ; This money is not ours ; Undeclared war to declared war ; Reflections in jail
• Colman McCarthy - Dorothy Day
• Mohandas Gandhi - Doctrine of the sword
• Sanford Krolick and Betty Cannon - Gandhi in the postmodern age
• Eknath Easwaren - Family Satyagraha
• Eknath Easwaren - Ahimsa
• Mohandas Gandhi - My faith in nonviolence
• Colman McCarthy - Pause from violence
• Mary Roodkowsky - Feminism, peace, and power
• Neal King and Martha McCaughey - Rape is all too thinkable for quite the normal sort of man
• Carol Ascher - Narrowing the battlefield
• Barbara Hope - Patriarchy: a state of war
• Colman McCarthy - American shero of 1941
• Charles De Benedetti - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. - Declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam ; Loving your enemies ; Pilgrimage to nonviolence
• Colman McCarthy - King and pacifism: the other dimension
• Henry David Thoreau - On the duty of civil disobedience
• Andrea Ayvazian - War tax resistance: one story
• Miles Lord - Judge & the bomb
• Seymour Melman and Lloyd J. Dumas - Planning for economic conversion
• Colman McCarthy - Up against the arms merchants
• Colman McCarthy - War, property, & peace
• Joseph B. Ingle - Ministering to the condemned
• Joseph M. Giarratano - Pains of life
• Michael Mello - Another attorney for life
• Willie Jasper Darden, Jr. - Inhumane way of death
• Colman McCarthy - More than a reasonable doubt
• Helen Nearing - Ethics of nonviolent eating
• Tom Regan - Animal rights position
• Respect for animals: interview / with Isaac Bashevis Singer --
• Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz - Animals, my brethren
• Keith Akers - Vegetarian sourcebook
• Colman McCarthy - "Terrorists" for animal rights
• Erich Fromm - Art of loving
• Merle Shain - Some men are more perfect than others
• James and Kathleen McGinnis - How to love our children
• Colman McCarthy - Men, women and the art of friendship
• Daniel Berrigan - Letter to Ernesto Cardenal: guns don't work
• Clarence S. Darrow - Resist not evil
• Colman McCarthy - Dan Berrigan and a Pennsylvania judge
• Grace Scales Yoder - Town that defiled the Holocaust
• Philip Hallie - Lest innocent blood be shed
• Colman McCarthy - Nonviolent weapons of the spirit
• Leo Tolstoy - Patriotism or peace ; Letter to a corporal ; Advice to a draftee ; War and peace ; Napoleon
• Colman McCarthy - Tolstoy and the larger vision
• Robert A. Seeley - Nonviolence as strategy and commitment
• Gene Sharp - Technique of nonviolent action
• Liane Ellison Norman - Nonviolent civilian defense
• Dudley Weeks - Look to the future, then learn from the past
• Colman McCarthy - Charles Grassley and the Pentagon hogs
• Joan Baez - What would you do if? ; Question of adhesion ; Courage of conviction
• Colman McCarthy - Backstage with Joan Baez
• Thomas Merton - Nonviolent alternative ; Message to poets ; Education and success
• Colman McCarthy - Rediscovering Thomas Merton
• Gerard T. Rice - Volunteers for peace
• Sargent Shriver - Volunteers forever
• Colman McCarthy - Sargent Shriver, enduring peacemaker