Video: Soldiers of Conscience Clip from PBS POV Series (Warning: This clip contains images and descriptions of violence that may be difficult for some students.) You can find the full film here.

Reading 8: James Gilligan How to Think About Violence

Reading 9: James Gilligan The Biology of Nonviolence

Video: James Gilligan On Violence

Video: James Gilligan Youth, Violence, and Education

Reading 10: Jonathan Glover Humanity

Video: Jonathan Glover Human Rights, Torture, and Terrorism

Video: Jonathan Glover Is War Too Deep in Human Nature to Eradicate?

Profiles from My Lai: Hugh Thompson and Ron Ridenhour

Reading 11: Martin Sanchez Jankowski Islands in the Street

Reading 12: Philippe Bourgois In Search of Respect

Lauren Justice, NYT: Batterer Intervention

Unit Two: Philosophical Roots of Nonviolence

Reading Excerpts 13 & 14: From Plato's Apology and Crito

Reading 13: Plato Apology

Video: Plato's Apology (Audio Book)

Reading 14: Plato Crito

Video: Plato's Crito (Audio Book) Benjamin Jowett Translation

Reading 15: Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

Discussion Outline Thoreau and an Ethic of Conscience

Video: Henry David Thoreau (Audio Book) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Thoreau: Themes and Quotes

Film: An Act of Conscience

War Tax Resistance: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

Reading 16: Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace

Video: Kant's Perpetual Peace (Audio Book)

Reading 17: Michael Shermer On Kant's Perpetual Peace

Kant's Perpetual Peace: Lecture Slides

Unit Three: Religious Influences on Nonviolent Theory

Reading 18: Kalama Sutta The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry

Reading 19: Thich Nhat Hanh Feelings and Perceptions

Video: Thich Nhat Hanh What is Nirvana?

Video: Thich Nhat Hanh in discussion with Ram Das Taking Care of Anger

Reading 20: Dalai Lama Dependent Origination and the Nature of Reality

Reading 21: I.C. Sharma The Ethics of Jainism

Reading 22: Doris Hunter On the Bhagavad Gita

Reading 23: Reuven Kimelman Nonviolence in the Talmud

Reading 24: Walter Wink Jesus' Third Way

Reading 25: Maurice S. Friedman Hasidism and the Love of Enemies

Supplemental Reading: An Israeli Shot Me An Israeli Healed Me

Unit Four: Major Figures in Modern Nonviolent Theory

Reading 26: Leo Tolstoy Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby

Video: Leo Tolstoy (Audio Book) What I Believe

Reading 27: Mohandas Gandhi Satyagraha

Reading 28: Mohandas Gandhi Means and Ends

Video: A Force More Powerful Part I: India, U.S., South Africa

Video: A Force More Powerful Part II: Denmark, Poland, Chile

Reading 28.5: Sean Martin: The Nature of Power

Reading 29: Albert Camus Neither Victims Nor Executioners

Reading 30: Sean Martin Kingian Nonviolence

Reading 31: Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Video: Martin Luther King, Jr. Reads his "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"

Video: Martin Luther King, Jr.An Intimate Conversation with Martin Luther King and David Susskind

Video: Ella Baker Speaks, My Life in the Movement, Part 1

Video: Ella Baker Speaks, My Life in the Movement, Part 2

Video: Ella Baker Speaks, My Life in the Movement, Part 3

Unit Five: Pacifism

Reading 32: A.A. Milne Peace With Honor

Reading 33: Albert Einstein Letters on Pacifism

Reading 34: Richard Taylor Pacifism as a Way of Life

Unit Six: Methods and Strategies of Nonviolence

Reading 35: George Orwel Reflections on Gandhi

Reading 36: Barbara Deming Revolution and Equalibrium

Reading 37: Lianne Ellison Norman Peace Through Strength

Reading 38: Jesse Wallace Hughan Pacifism and Invasion

Reading 39: Sean Martin Introduction to Sharp's From Dictatorship to Democracy

Reading 40: Gene Sharp From Dictatorship to Democracy

Gene Sharp From Dictatorship to Democracy (Audio Book)

Gene Sharp The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Struggle

Reading 40.5: Gene Sharp's 198 Methods of Nonviolent Struggle

Reading 41: Cesar Chavez He Showed Us the Way

Reading 42: Cesar Chavez Peregrinatación, Penitencia, Revolución

Reading 43: José-Antonio Orosco César Chavez on the Pragmatics of Violence

Video: Dolores Huerta How to Overcome Apathy and Find your Power

Reading 43: Sara Ruddick Maternal Nonviolence

Reading 45: Amartya Sen Identity and Violence

Video: American Experience, The Stonewall Riots (Identity and Resistance)

NYT Article Rhodes and the Balanced Life

NYT Article Saudi Arabia's Dangerous Sectarian Game

NYT Article The Troubles are Back

Reading 46: Amos Oz Between Right and Right

Reading 47: Amos Oz How to Cure a Fanatic

Reading 48: Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan The Success of Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns

Reading 49: Erica Chenoweth Women's Participation and the Fate of Nonviolent Campaigns

Video: Erica Chenoweth The Success of Nonviolent Resistance

Video: Peter Singer Animal Rights

A Single World, Many Identities? BBC Panel Discussion on Identity

Video: A Conversation with Stacy Abrams, Race and Political Power in the United States

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