The Frontiers of Nonviolence

by Chaiwat Satha-Anand (ed.), Michael True (ed.)

Summary: The papers in this book give us a much-needed look at current theoretical understandings of nonviolence and its intellectual and spiritual roots, at the dynamics of its current practise in a number of different settings, and its potentials for more widespread social change toward peace and justice in a future social order. It is with a special sense of poignancy that I write these words, realizing that Kenneth Boulding’s article which opens the book is the last article he wrote before he died. His life was a testament to the thinking, study and practise of peace, and he knew that nonviolence was the only path to that future state of humankind (by Elise Boulding).