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"This introduction to nonviolent movements analyzes fourteen classic and contemporary cases to show how nonviolent strategies can work where violent warfare has failed. Drawing on practitioner knowledge and diverse philosophical and religious texts, Michael K. Duffey offers a multifaceted argument for embracing nonviolent resolutions to conflict"--
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Religious texts as starting points for dialogue -- 1. Transforming Love: Holiness and the Vocation of Justice -- 2. Disarming Retributivism: Toward an Authentic Forgiveness as a Basis for Peacemaking -- 3. The Sermon on the Mount and the Creation of Peace -- 4. The Complementary Perspectives of Muhammad and Jesus: An Analysis of Moral Leadership and Discipleship with Secular Application -- 5. Islam and Christianity Agree on Core Values: Justice as a Basis for Universal Morality and Peace -- 6. Hinduism: Source of Conflict, Resource for Peace -- 7. The Nature of the Ongoing Terrorist Threats to American Cities: Some Thoughts on the Problem of Ethical Living Post 9/11 -- Part 2 Twentieth-century peacemakers -- 8. Nonviolence and Justice as Inseparable Principles: A Gandhian Perspective -- 9. Jesus and Gandhi -- 10. Mahatma Gandhi and Wahiduddin Khan on Nonviolence and Jihad -- 11. The Jesuits as Peace Makers: Negotiating with Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Sitting Bull -- 12. The Role of the Church in Conflict Management in Northern Ireland -- 13. The Vocation of Peacemaking in the Victorian Era: Social Transformation, Bread, and Peace -- 14. The Ecumenical Praxis of Patriarch Athenagoras I (1948-72) -- 15. Jews of Conscience and the Rebirth of the Prophetic -- 16. Conflict, Mediation and Peacemaking in the Pastoral Praxis of the Diocese ofSan Cristóbal de Las Casas,Chiapas, Mexico -- Part 3 Peacemaking through educational institutions and ethical business practices -- 17. Teaching Peace in a Dangerous World -- 18. International Trading Partners Can Lead the Way to Peace -- 19. Imagining Peace: Alienation and the Consumer -- Part 4 Conclusion -- 20. The Lies of War: Dissecting the "Just War" Euphemisms and Building an Ethics of Peace -- List of Contributors -- Index.