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Anarchism. --- Pacifism. --- Pacifism --- Nuclear disarmament --- History
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval Europe was more than thirty times what it is today. Slavery, sadistic punishments, and frivolous executions were common features of life for millennia, then were suddenly abolished. How could this have happened, if human nature has not changed? Pinker argues that thanks to the spread of government, literacy, trade, and cosmopolitanism, we increasingly control our impulses, empathize with others, debunk toxic ideologies, and deploy our powers of reason to reduce the temptations of violence.
Nonviolence --- Violence --- BPB1111 --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Psychological aspects --- Social aspects --- Cognitive psychology --- Social problems
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Civil disobedience --- Government, Resistance to --- Nonviolence --- Résistance au gouvernement --- 863 Pacifisme --- Non-violence --- Pacifism --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Revolutions --- Disobedience, Civil --- Résistance au gouvernement --- Political resistance
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German literature --- Literature --- Nonviolence in literature. --- Nonviolence. --- Violence in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- Nonviolence --- Nonviolence in literature --- Violence in literature --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Theory
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This book tells the story of The Veterans of Future Wars (VFW), a student movement that attracted widespread support in a short few months in 1936. Despite its short life, it was a successful movement that attracted wide support and caused serious discussion about the role of the federal government in providing bonuses to veterans. It focused American attention on the bonus issue, which had been a political issue for many years.
College students --- Student movements --- Peace movements --- Pacifism --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Veterans --- Political activity --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Influence. --- Government policy --- History --- Veterans of Future Wars (U.S.) --- United States --- Social conditions
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This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence-defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians-can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors-writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield-considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion.
Violence -- Prevention. --- Terrorism --- Terror --- Violence --- Emotional intelligence --- Psychological aspects --- Prevention --- activist. --- amos oz. --- bombing. --- civilians. --- comparative religion. --- compassion. --- conflict. --- crusade. --- daniel ellsberg. --- desmond tutu. --- fatema mernissi. --- forgiveness. --- fritjof capra. --- george lakoff. --- healing. --- holy war. --- huston smith. --- islam. --- jack kornfield. --- jihad. --- mahmoud darwish. --- nonfiction. --- pacifism. --- peace. --- political leaders. --- redemption. --- religious war. --- riane eisler. --- sociology. --- terrorism. --- terrorist violence. --- terrorist. --- terry tempest williams. --- violence. --- war on terror. --- world peace.
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Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.
Arab-Israeli conflict --- Nationalism --- Violence --- Nonviolence --- History --- Palestine --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Social problems --- National movements --- Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Nationalism. --- Nonviolence. --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- History. --- Holy Land --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Nationalism - Palestine - History --- Violence - Palestine - History --- Palestine - History - Autonomy and independence movements
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The non-violent protests of civil rights activists and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s helped to redefine Western politics. But where did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how Gandhi's non-violent protests were the subject of widespread discussion and debate in the USA and UK for several decades. Though at first misrepresented by Western newspapers, they were patiently described and clarified by a devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small groups of Westerners experimented with Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these methods to a wider audience. The swelling protests of later years increasingly abandoned the spirit of non-violence, and the central significance of Gandhi and his supporters has therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders its abiding significance.
Nonviolence --- Protest movements --- Antinuclear movement --- African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Anti-nuclear movement --- Antinuclear protest movement --- Nuclear freeze movement --- Protest movement, Antinuclear --- Social movements --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear power plants --- Non-violence --- Government, Resistance to --- Pacifism --- History --- Civil rights --- Gandhi, --- Aṇṇal Kānti, --- Gāndhi, Em. Ke., --- Gandhi, M. K. --- Gāndhī, Ma. Ka., --- Gāndhī, Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda, --- Gandhi, Mohandas, --- Gandhi, Mohandas K. --- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, --- Gāndhījī, --- Gandi, --- Gandi, M. K. --- Gāndī, Mahātamā, --- Gandi, Mahattŭma, --- Gandi, Mokhandas Karamchand, --- Gandī, Muhandās Kāramchānd, --- Ganji, Mahatoma, --- Ghāndi, --- Ghāndī, Mūhāndās Karamshānd, --- Gkanti, --- Kan-ti, --- Kandi, --- Kānti, --- Kānti, Mōkan̲tās Karamcant, --- Kāntiyaṭikaḷ, --- Mahātmā Gāndhījī, --- Mahātmājī, --- Makātmā Kānti, --- Mōhanadāsa Karamacanda Gāndhī, --- Mōkan̲tās Karamcant Kānti, --- גאנדי, מ.ק --- גאנדי, --- גנדהי, --- مهاتما گاندهى --- گاندهى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهاتما --- گاندى، مهنداس کارمچاند --- گاندھى، --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities
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"A vivid sense of strangeness": Einstein's path to the Zionist movement -- A different kind of nationalism: Einstein's induction and mobilization into the Zionist movement -- The "prize-winning ox" in "Dollaria": Einstein's fundraising trip to the United States in 1921 -- Secular pilgrim or Zionist tourist?: Einstein's tour of Palestine in 1923 -- The "botched university": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1924-1929 -- "A genuine symbiosis": Einstein on the 1929 clashes in Palestine -- The "bug-infested house": Einstein's involvement in the Hebrew University, 1930-1933.
Zionisme. --- Kwantummechanica. --- Zionism. --- Einstein, Albert, --- Palestina. --- Israël (staat) --- Jews --- Zionist movement --- Jewish nationalism --- Zionism --- Politics and government --- Restoration --- Israel --- Eretz Israel --- Erets Israel --- Erets Yiśraʼel --- Filasṭīn --- Palesṭin --- Erez Jisrael --- Paleśtinah --- Memshelet Paleśtinah --- Palestina --- Palästina --- Falastīn --- Political and social views. --- Einstein, Albert --- Aiyinsitan, Abote, --- Aĭnshtaĭn, Albert, --- Ainshutain, A, --- Ain̲sṭain̲, Ālparṭ, --- Ainsṭāina, Albarṭa, --- Ajnštajn, Albert, --- Āynishtayn, --- Aynshtayn, Albert, --- Eĭnshteĭn, Alʹbert, --- אינשטין, אלברט, --- איינשטיין --- איינשטיין, אלבערט, --- איינשטיין, אלברט --- איינשטיין, אלברט, --- Aynştayn, Elbêrt, --- Īnshtīn, --- Aynîştayn, --- Aiyinsitan, --- 愛因斯坦, --- 爱因斯坦, --- Abraham Flexner. --- Abraham Fraenkel. --- Ahad Ha'am. --- Albert Einstein Archives. --- Albert Einstein. --- Alfred Dreyfus. --- Aliyah. --- American Schools of Oriental Research. --- Anti-Zionism. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arthur Ruppin. --- Axis powers. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Berliner Tageblatt. --- Blood libel. --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chief Rabbi. --- Churchill White Paper. --- Cultural Zionism. --- Culture and Society. --- Cyrus Adler. --- Disenchantment. --- Dora Diamant. --- Einstein Papers Project. --- Einstein family. --- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. --- Emil Grunzweig. --- Ernest Rutherford. --- Ernest Solvay. --- Felix Ehrenhaft. --- First Intifada. --- Franz Kafka. --- Fritz Haber. --- George Mosse. --- German model. --- Gustav Landauer. --- Habilitation. --- Haredi Judaism. --- Harvard University. --- Hebrew University of Jerusalem. --- Hebrew labor. --- His Family. --- Hugo Haase. --- Independent People. --- Jehuda Reinharz. --- Jewish Underground. --- Jewish culture. --- Jewish diaspora. --- Jewish identity. --- Jews. --- Jingoism. --- Judaism. --- Kapp Putsch. --- Kurt Blumenfeld. --- Kurt Hiller. --- Leon Simon (Zionist). --- Leon Uris. --- Martin Buber. --- Maurice Solovine. --- Max Brod. --- Max Planck. --- Middle East. --- Moshe Zimmermann. --- Mount Scopus. --- Nahum Sokolow. --- Nobel Prize. --- Norman Bentwich. --- On the Eve. --- Orientalism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Pacifism. --- Pasteur Institute. --- Paul Ehrenfest. --- Paul Warburg. --- Peace Now. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Police action. --- Political machine. --- Post-Zionism. --- Protectionism. --- Prussian Academy of Sciences. --- Religious antisemitism. --- Revisionist Zionism. --- Safed. --- Secularism. --- Social Darwinism. --- Solvay Conference. --- The Other Hand. --- The Rothschilds (musical). --- United Jewish Appeal. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walther Nernst. --- Warfare. --- Weimar Republic. --- Weizmann. --- West Jerusalem. --- Wilhelm Ostwald. --- Wissenschaft des Judentums. --- Zionist Organization of America.
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