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Tag Archives: Nonviolence
Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts
By Robert J. Burrowes While conflict theories and resolution processes advanced dramatically during the second half of the 20th century, particularly thanks to the important work of several key scholars such as Professor Johan Galtung – see ‘Conflict Transformation by … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Conflict Resolution, Conflict Theory, Gandhi, Global Economy, Global Elite, Hatred, Israel, Johan Galtung, Myanmar, Nisteling, Nonviolence, Palestine, Philosophy, psychology, Terror, war
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Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Robert J. Burrowes Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Art, Corporate Welfare, culture, Environment, Militarization, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Bolivia, Bruce Gagnon, Eddy Kalisa Nyarwaya Jr., Ella Polyakova, Gaëlle Smedts, General Dynamics, Ghandi, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, John Seed, Martin Luther King Jr., Movimient Humanista, Nonviolence, Poetry Against Arms, Rainforest Information Centre, Russia, Rwanda Institute for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, society, Soldiers’ Mothers of Saint-Petersburg, Violence, war, war profiteers
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To Liberate Cambodia
By Robert J. Burrowes A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Economics, History, imperialism, Labor, police state, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged activism, Cambodia, Dictatorship, Economics, Hun Sen, imperialism, Khmer, Labor, Nonviolence, politics, protest, war, Worker's Rights
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Why are Police in the USA so Terrified?
Robert J. Burrowes In a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, elites, Militarization, Philosophy, police state, Psychology, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged B’Tselem, conditioning, elites, fear, Institutional Racism, Israel, Militarization, Nonviolence, Palestine, police shootings, police state, Police Violence, psychology, racism, society, Sociology, State Crime, Terror, Violence
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Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
By Ben Case Source: ROAR Magazine The argument over violence and nonviolence — one of the oldest and most divisive on the left — is back. Broken windows, mass arrests and one well-timed punch marked Donald Trump’s inauguration alongside massive … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, culture, History, Law, police state, Revolution, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Civil Resistance, Ghandi, Nonviolence, Pacifists, police brutality, police state, Police Violence, protests, Revolution, Riots, Satyagraha, Strategic Nonviolence, Totalitarianism, Vandalism, Violence
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Why War? Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
By Robert J. Burrowes In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ See ‘Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature’. In many ways, this dialogue … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, conditioning, consciousness, culture, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality, war
Tagged Albert Einstein, Johan Galtung, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Nonviolence, Philosophy, psychology, Satyagraha, Sigmund Freud, society, Sociology, Violence, Why War?
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The Unifying Force of War Abolition
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Remarks at United National Antiwar Coalition in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18, 2017. It’s not unusual for an activist, focused on one of the millions of worthy causes out there, to try to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, Militarization, military spending, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged activism, anti-war, Climate Change, corporate media, Disease, economy, Health System, Mass Murder, Militarization, Nonviolence, Nuclear War, police state, racism, war
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A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat Genocide
By Robert J. Burrowes It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the international system, despite the effort following World War II to abolish it … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, culture, Geopolitics, History, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime, war
Tagged Genocide, Genocide Convention, geopolitics, Myanmar, Nonviolence, Peace, Politicide, psychology, Rohingya, terrorism, United Nations, Violence
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