Watch this interview with the “father of Peace & Conflict Studies” and the founder of Transcend International on Democracy Now! about Afghanistan, 9/11, the US Republic and the US Empire, and more.
You can order a copy of the book from Transcend University Press.
Watch this interview with Professor Johan Galtung, the founder of Peace & Conflict Studies.
Here is a previous post on three of his foundational books.
Watch this beautiful video by Sebastian Hernandez & Megumi Nishikura on being peace.
mediaforpeacebuilding.com honors the life and work of Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States and tireless activist, who passed away on January 27, 2010. Read this obituary by his friend and student, David Zirin. He will be missed by many and will continue to inspire peacebuilders everywhere with his sage and inspiring lessons on how to keep up the struggle and never lose hope.
In Zinn’s words, “If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”
Watch this one-hour tribute by Democracy Now! to the life and words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
Read the Handbook for Satyagrahis which outlines a Gandhian approach to nonviolence training, by the founder of the Institute for Total Revolution, Narayan Desai, India.
Read Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, an excellent resource for teachers who are teaching nonviolence and social justice.
Watch the 3-hour documentary series, A Force More Powerful, which explores the use of nonviolent tactics in sociopolitical movements around the world.
mediaforpeacebuilding.com honors the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who eloquently and compassionately lead the United States to address the ugly truth that racism, injustice, and violence were steeped deep in its culture. This powerful civil and human rights leader still inspires peacebuilders around the world today, who are working as he did to uproot violence and injustice from their societies and their spirits.
In Dr. King’s words, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction… The chain reaction of evil–hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars–must be broken or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.“
