Solutions to Violence

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 (1890-1980)• 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 (Finding the right glue) ; 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