cultures resistance nonviolent revolution

books:

A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance

5 reviews
Mary Elizabeth King

Nation Books, 2007

Remembering history to re-live it?
Mary King has achieved an extraordinary feat. In A QUIET REVOLUTION she first demolishes the myth (especially popular among some academic experts on non-violent movements) that the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising (1987-1993), somehow wasn't "really" non-violent because of the iconic stone-throwing children. She demonstrates the strategic non-violence that in fact underpinned that ...

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action (Cultures of Peace.)

4 reviews
Mary King

UNESCO, 1999

Pictures of the Future
Mary King has woven together photos, quotes and her own reflections in a manner reminiscent of the popular GANDHI THE MAN by Sri Eknath Easwaran. Her subject is broader, however, in that she gives us not only Gandhi and King but some of the more dramatic leaders of nonviolence in the modern world. The need for information and understanding about this subject and these people cannot be ...