PeacePower: Berkeley's Journal of Conflict Transformation

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Combatants for Peace: A New Path to Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine PDF
It's one thing for combatants locked in battle to set down their guns and refuse to fight. It's a whole new reality when those refusers, from both sides, work together to untangle the mess that got them onto the battlefield in the first place.
By Matthew Taylor

Also In this issue:

EDITORIALS

PERSPECTIVES ON GANDHI

Spinning Wheel Birthday PDF

Building The Alternative: Communities

Gandhi's Spirit Alive in Student co-ops PDF
One student's reflections on her experience working in Co-Ops and the connection it provided to Gandhi's message.
By Chelsea Collonge
Standing Up to Domestic Violence PDF
A look at domestic violence through the perspective of nonviolence.
By Lara Duncan
Tent Cities Resist War on the Poor in Richmond PDF
In a notoriously crime-ridden neighboorhood, locals have taken a unique approach to bring peace to their community.
By Marilyn Langlois and Fred Jackson
Oakland's Nonviolent Future PDF
After Oakland's first "summer of nonviolence" Love offers insight into the possibilities and challenges for a nonviolent future in Oakland.
By Jerlina Love
Gandhian Economics: An Opportunity for African Development PDF
Gandhi's theories about economic structure offer a different perspective and prescription for the problems in African development.
By Anna Key
Red Wheels for Nonviolent Action: The Romany Struggle for Dignity and Truth PDF
For centuries, the effects of racism, stereotypes, myths, and scapegoating have shaped the state of Roma (aka Gypsies) around the world.
By Veronika Safarova

Building the Alternative: Peace Making

The Force Untapped: The Proposal for a Department of Peace PDF
Do we need a Department of Peace? An in-depth look into what a Department of Peace would mean to the structure of the United States government.
By Carrie Brode
The Declaration of Peace PDF
People unite to end the occupation of Iraq.
By Jennifer Kuiper
A Longing for Courage: The Declaration of Peace PDF
A reflection
By Eli Sasaran McCarthy
Combatants for Peace PDF
A new path to peace and justice in Israel/Palestine
By Matthew Taylor

Building the Alternative: Peace Education

Peace Games PDF
A constructive program for nonviolence education.
By Amy Elmgren

Why Peace Education? And What is it Anyway?

PDF

A letter to a friend defending the choice to study Peace Education.
By Pieternel De Bie, Ed.M.

Israeli Jews and Palestinians Build an "Oasis of Peace" PDF
Real peace has to be made with enemies.
By Lorenzo Porta

In Film

Paradise Now PDF
In search of an alternative to violence a must-see film whether you support or object to suicide bombing as a method to promote the Palestinian state.
by Tal Palter-Palman

Person Power

Valentines Day Civil Disobedience PDF
Exposing the lie of homophobia
By Matthew Taylor

New Paradigm

The Nonviolent Principles of Nature PDF
This article traces principles of nonviolence through physics showing the unity that connects all in the world.
By Scott Riley

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