April 2021

What is Peacebuilding?

  “The absence of a shared perception of what constitutes ‘peacebuilding practice’ remains a challenge.” — White Paper on Peacebuilding (2015) by Geneva Peacebuilding Platform Let’s do an experiment, shall we? Step 1: Put ten peacebuilders in a room. I won’t ask where you find them or how you got them there. This is all up to …

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A Typology of Violence

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.” — Gandhi During college, I hung out a lot with the activist types and other students who were definitely more socially engaged than myself. I read lots of books, though never really in the subject I was meant to be studying. …

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Resources for Creative Nonviolence

“The first essential characteristic of nonviolent action is that it is creative.” — Hildegarde Goss-Mayr There’s a lot of people out there in the streets right now seeking justice for the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, and demanding that those in positions of power take action to address institutional racism. The widespread support for …

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