Writings on Nonviolence,
Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution
Writings on Nonviolence,
» Words to challenge and inspire you in your fight for peace, and ammunition to help you convince those who doubt the practicality of nonviolence. In this section you'll find writings on nonviolence, reconciliation, conflict resolution and pacifism, as well as free e-books on peace-related themes.
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Johann Christoph Arnold Explores many facets of humankind's ageless search for peace. Arnold plumbs a wealth of spiritual traditions and draws on the wisdom of some exceptional (and some very ordinary) people who have found peace in surprising places. The Violence of Love Oscar Romero A powerful book of eloquent, simple meditations, bearing witness to the hard life of a man who was martyred for his faith. God's Revolution Eberhard Arnold Eberhard Arnold doesn't approach discipleship as a benign route to religious fulfillment, but as revolution - a transformation that begins within and spreads outward to encompass every htmlect of life. Here is the raw reality of the gospel that has the power to change the world. Find more in e-Books |
Howard Zinn To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. Again and again, this historian reminds us, the power of money and guns has proved vulnerable to more human qualities. What leaps out from the history of the past hundred years, he says, is its utter unpredictability. Dare to Imagine John Dear, S.J. In the early 1980s a small group gathered in their church basement in East Germany to ask a daring question: "What will Germany look like a thousand years from now when the Berlin Wall finally falls_" The Writing on the Wall Bruderhof School Students Fourteen poems written by children at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and Arlington National Cemetery. Serving the Strongest Master Johann Christoph Arnold Musing on the varied motives of American troops stationed in Iraq, a writer is reminded of an old legend - and of the light that can shine into even the darkest circumstances. Understanding Soldiers From Iraq Paul Button Ken sits in his hospital bed, recovering from wounds received in Iraq. A gigantic scar runs jaggedly across his head like a mountain range from one ear to the other. I’m trying hard to understand. Ken’s mother hands me a poem Ken wrote just a week before “it happened.” Find more in Articles |