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  • Brilliant lecture, I wish these kind of programs come into mainstream eduction; models, conflict management and event analysis for any situations.

  • Gomurron :)

  • PRODUCTION VALUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111­11111111

  • he looks skinny sexually mutilated and is prototype of an intellectual who has no roots in reality at all.TALK IS EASY!!

  • @IbnNero lol yeah he doesn't even look cool or badass!!of course we can't trust these hippie fags who have spent their whole lives learning.

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  • this is very important lecture for those students which want to do something new in their lives.

  • thank you for sharing the knowledge! I'll try to attend more :)

  • thank you!

  • Everybody type in "gift" befor youtube then press enter

  • I love this man! He is sheer genius. The entire lecture, I stayed glued to my screen, my ears perked, following his every word.

  • oh my god, i can't believe this is online. i took this class 3 years ago and it changed my life. i will watch this again.

  • @tothemax01I can certainly appreciate your POV, but there is no need for the foul language. Further, if you ever chance to live in a small town, you might find this pattern of non confrontation with those who have wronged you is by no mean restricted to the idyllic and halycion fantasy of Ladakh which the proffessor presents. There is a certain truth to some of the things he is saying, even if he does present a somewhat poor image of Ladakh, ie,he claims they are weak,stupid, and gullible.

  • Thank you so much for this lecture Professor Nagler!

  • Sir i love you

  • This is a really excellent series. Listened to it a couple of years ago on itunes, but I thought I'd go through it again.

  • An example of negative energy is McCain singing BOMB ! BOMB ! IRAN !

  • He ain't no Prince of Peace, not even a Prince of Persia.

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  • since when can we upload a video from 1:11:43 hours??

  • allways!

    but the most go to 10 minutes some vids go to 1our of more ;-)

  • cause berkley is an uni ;)

  • Guys, I think this is boring too.. but some people learn from this, and love to watch it.. stop whining? don't put comments that this is boring and stuff. just don't click on the vid then..

  • watchd it

  • Just a tattooed thuggish looking bloke, viewing from home...Just a man who believes that love really is the answer...thank you so much for putting this on the tube...I will watch the whole Corse and learn...thank you so much, peace to all.

  • dit ziet er nu al saai uit. xD

  • yeah i did a trainee ship :P

  • why R all the comments so negative here? he is teaching something very wonderful....non-violence! OUR world needs this now soooo much NoW. LiSTeN & LeArN!!!

    XO

  • What is with all the fucking whining in here?

  • efewtgrgrg

  • The teacher of my shool is wearing also such a thing on his haunch. What is this?

  • whatch this shit eh?

  • welcome too Colege .lol

  • im 12 and wat is dis?

  • It's a watermelon.

  • simple minded mode....indeed

  • I like how he's promoting his book, even after saying theres no assignments based from it. Lol shameless self promotion FTL

  • Welcome to college, where they hand out you a "syllabus," and rant about bullshit all fuckin day. What's the point coming to class, just to waste my gas? I dont understand why they dont just "live stream" all college classrooms so we dont have to deal with this crap.

  • damn thats boarderline interesting

  • iz dis a liberal arts class ???

  • They don' t have enough copies because

    A) the copy machine isn' t working

    B) it will be ecologically incorrect

    I just learned how ecology trick works...

  • lol, paying $40,000 a year for tuition doesnt even buy u a copy of the sylabis. FAIL.

  • $100,000 he makes a year to spout all this.

  • so who is the dumass who filmed the whole fuc*in` thing

  • maybe berkeley college?

  • Makes me feel better I didn't get accepted into Berkeley. Interesting lecture, but I feel like he reduces it to a kind of Adam and Eve story: oh look at this paradise that was created, then we taught them to be greedy, and now they're fucked up. Sounds like religious bullshit to me.

  • haha

  • USA teaches nonviolence? lol.

    How ironic?

  • The U.S. is a divided nation. One third non-violence hippies, one third war hungry redneck racists, and one third "I don't give a fuck, it's better than home" immigrants.

  • well said

  • @pdblouin33 don't even get me started on the generalists.

  • @pdblouin33 I'm the first one. Non-violent hippie. :)

  • @pdblouin33 I think the "don't give a fuck" portion is much bigger than one third, and also it's not dominated by immigrants...

  • it's ironic because you thought all Americans are violent?

  • this professor is a Jew so he can teach whatever he wants.

  • And you are a racist asshole so you can say whatever you want?

  • ROFL

  • nice

  • What is wrong with this lecture, this I found an inteteresting lecture and message is clear. It is so lilly that people looking in to negative side of this lecture. As a Indian I appreciate this lecture. All the best, and thanks

  • e eese e bom d+

  • Listen Thaya - Up Again And Tonight

  • Very interesting this is what youtube should look like XD

  • Why should we believe someone who believes "a" person without any verification but does not believe Media that independently gives similar stories? Why should anyone belive someone who never cared to verify "where" this was: Gujrath or Bihar will be right in verifying details about riots?

  • lol yes i am a loser a loser at what? hmm im just saying why waste your time going to uni and collage to do your dream job when your going to die in about 60 years anyway mase well have fun with your life and get a job that pays good that's it i mean i got my dream job as being a games designer dident even have to pay for anything and they payed me to learn before i started working there :)

  • ;o Didn't you need to follow a study to become a game designer?

    And you usually follow a study at a uni to get a well paid job. Maybe it's these students dream job to become something that's related to this study.

  • lol, this guy is a joker

  • Lols.

  • or i could just not watch this crap :) why go to college or uni for anyway :P waste of your life

  • You're just saying that because you're a loser

  • "I'm a professor so my job is to take simple things and make them complicated. So intelectuals can understand them." The guy has humour seems to me as a good professor.

  • humour as an indicator for a professor's expertise?

  • Certainly. Have you ever had several lectures on one day, after a hard long nights study? I tell you, you need something to keep you focussed. A joke here and there may help with that. If the lecture is too dry noone will be able to listen trough it.

  • Only a good student would notice that. I congrat you!

  • I just love these american professors. Our professors here in Europe are total assholes.

  • Cool lecture.... great professor.... unfortunately im to busy doing homework to watch the whole thing...

  • lol

  • my name was not on the list shittt

  • So you want to know Everything about The New World Order, Martial Law and FEMA??-------->> NWO-TRUTH,COM

  • the name is Ladakh....not ladadh...this gentlement does not have the qualities any professor should have...but then again, its berkeley...

  • What a load off crap, childish

  • watch my big toe by Thomas Campbell !

  • I have a PHD in biomagnetic chemistry, and my proven theories devulge that Berkely is none other than the partaker in the horrible acts or TERRORISM!!!

    ps, the guys fucking hot! i would fuck him. He can touch my PHDick anyday baby

  • Sure...ok...

  • You have a PHD in Bullshit. That's what.

  • University of California - Nonvionalence ??? Yes lets forget Iraq and Afganistan and the bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki !!! Yeah why not ??? ARE YOU FUCKIN KIDDING ME ??? WHAT A PURE BULLSHIT THIS IS !!! FUCK OFF !!!

  • hd vids for this would be alot better o.O

  • i disagree low quality videos stimulate your grey cells to function in improper way ;)

  • then you must have seen many videos with such low quality. note: no such thing as grey cells. gray matter is what you're looking for.

  • just joking aand thnx 4 thu correction

  • k kojones es esto jej

  • Just beat up anyone that uses violence! (Recursive, I know)

  • thank you a know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

  • A cure for insomniacs is finally found!!

  • Type in JakeR lights FIREWORK in house. Very hazardous!!! It's the funniest shit out on YOU TUBE so far.

  • *yawn*

  • x2 *

  • UP IN UR COUNTRY bringing DA NEGATIVE NRGY! PWND.

  • Glad to see this.

  • much more interesting than watching tv.

  • But what if it were broadcast over tv?

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  • if i videoed my class for youtube u wud laugh at how bad my lecturers are..

    all they do is read from powerpoint slides they found online..and can hardly answer a question you give them...lol..

    thanks for this by the way..interesting class..good teacher

  • brendyfai,

    Same goes for my classes. I took a year off school and in that year, among many other things, I took to watching lectures from University channels here on YouTube. I was incredibly disappointed when I went back to school (This time college) and found myself being taught by "professors" that barely knew the subjects.

  • Our organization highly appreciates having this course online since we promote nonviolence to restore democracy and freedom in Venezuela.

  • this should be taught in primary school

  • Awesome course! Thanks for having this online.

  • I took this course in 1993. Glad to see it online. Hi Professor Nagler!

  • no, we need more people like you.. that will make everything better!

  • Wow download link, thank you Berkley, the ERA of 100% free education via the internet. so we don't have to waste non renewable energy commuting to a classroom.

  • Am I the first person to notice PACS sounds the same as Pax which is the nominative singular in Latin for "Peace"? God Im such a nerd lol.

  • Optime! I was thinking about that myself. There's nothing wrong with nerd-dom, either...

  • Losers are the ones who don't know how to love. Losers think that their happiness comes from a warm gun. I'm sorry you can't wrap your head around this truth, but i do know that you will learn your lesson one way or another.

  • great video !!

  • and when you add negative energy (McPalin) to a negative situation (todays economy) it becomes even more worst!

  • lol

  • negative squared.

  • "ladadh" brings 19 results in google. is it spelled correctly anyway?

  • What he says about using positive energy instead of negative to solve problems reminds me about what quran (and probabely the bible and other holy scripts):

    41:34 But [since] good and evil cannot be equal, repel thou [evil] with something that is better [31] and lo! he between whom and thyself was enmity [may then become] as though he had [always] been close [unto thee], a true friend!

  • wtf this isnt physics

  • News is an unhealthy habit?

  • By any measure, it certainly is. Try spending a month without "news" and focus on issues directly affecting you, and those of your personal knowledge. After a month of focusing on what you can know about, have an impact on, and engage emotionally, intellectually and physically on what are authentic elements of your life I dare say you will be happier, more balanced, less angry, clearer thinking, have better relationships, and be a more effective person. Don't let "news" frame the issues

  • You're indeed very intelligent and you're also a pleasure

    All my respect.

  • No it's not 'okay'. This professor mumbles at the end of each sentence and then gives a test on the course. That in itself is violent. Either that or is he planning on demonstrating assertive behavior.

  • Why does the professor say the reason this course get broadcasted is that there is a rumor concerning him? Is it just a sense of humor or is there really such rumor?

  • a good lecture and a high recomended lecturer..

    but why he dosnt use 'Christ' as a sample of non violence instead of Gandhi og M. L. Junior??

    As far as i now, Christ had stated:

    If your enemy slap on your cheek, you should give the other side (to be slapped)

    This is a termendous example of non violence..Isnt it??

  • He mentioned that his course'd include some discussion on Christianity

  • Maybe he diddn't want to...and remember jesus did wreck some shit that time in the temple : )

  • hah! I laughed out loud when I read that. That's when he was turning over the tables of the merchants for charging too high a markup on their wares, right? We know more about Gandhi and more contemporary pacifists than we do about Jesus.

  • "that" refers to griffrs comment about Jesus..

  • LOL he was knocking it over for much more than the prices. The money changers were the interface between the Roman occupation, whose coinage was idolatrous (proclaiming caesar the "son of God"), and the Hebrew coinage, which the Romans decreed could only be used in the Temple...because you couldn't buy a worthy sacrifice with idolatrous coinage. Hence the livestock and the coinage are right there together, and the Temple priests made a nice healthy profit from collaborating with the Romans.

  • Also he is talking about what a mere mortal can do ie a human being. Jesus is seen as God and man by some people.

  • THIS IS AWESOME.

  • Think. Unselfish, helpful, curious, kindness, Change the things you can, leave the things you cant right now, have wisdom to see the difference. YOUR thoughts, is what you can change. Your focus. love, peace, respect, non-prejudiced. Smile, and ask if people want to hear the secret of peace. Faith is fear in the dark. Stay in the light and bring the fear out, so you may see that it is harmless

  • >Donovonc, then what do you suggest we do?

  • ok, i watched the whole thing. I think "positive energy" is fine, but tell the corporations who are polluting our planet to be non-violent, tell Bush to be non-violent, not me, I haven't done anything. what we need to do is STOP THE DESTRUCTION. and if you think 'positive energy' is going to solve that, you are just kidding yourself.

  • Hey Donovonc. I agree with you that we have to stop the destruction. out of curiousity.. what destruction are you specifically thinking of?

    And what do you want instead?

    One last question: Where do you think you can make the easiest change in your world to begin to construct instead of destroy? Is our thoughts not construction? so what thoughts do you want?

  • I think Prof. Nagler's response, donovonc, would be that if you think 'negative energy' is going to solve those problems, there's several thousand years of history suggesting that you're kidding yourself. By contrast, in the rare cases of 'positive energy' translated into action being used to solve conflict there is a history of incredible and unexpected success.

  • From a historical perspective, corporations are short lived and transitory. A non-violant and positive response to one coporation's negative impact would be to use and promote an alternative, to reward those who have a positive effect. You can speed the natural demise of negative impacting corporations by either rewarding their competitors if the competitors have something worth supporting. We all have that personal option.

  • To continue...I was a car nut back in California where I grew up and despite always being uneasy about the problems that cars caused, I loved driving Italian sports GT cars. I moved to St Petersburg Russia and didn't have or need a car. Every part of my life improved as a result, partly due to more time for friends, culture and personal activities, I have lower impact on the environment, spend less time commuting, tranport costs went from $800 to $20/month. Personal options DO have an impact.

  • Most scholars tend to eschew terms like "an historical perspective" for its percieved omnipotence and transhistorical pretence; the fact remains that corporations are not *experienced* as short lived by those whose lives they impact most negatively.

    Also - living in a large city which requires food, etc. to be delivered in, rather than grown locally might be seen(and is by many)as having a greater negative impact than living in a rural or even suburban area and having a personal automobile.

  • From a historical perspective, corporations are also one of the greatest things to happen to humanity, increasing lifespan, increasing life expectancy, reducing hunger and illness, and leading to a cleaner environment.

  • Some corporations were mechanisms for good but only those which operated in an environment of careful and strict oversight by civil policy makers. In countries where there is good oversight, such as in EU countries corporations are not as destructive as in the developing world and the US where corporations have overtaken the power of citizens.

  • That's absurd and tellingly non-specific.

  • specifically some corporations which invested in nazi germany were du Pont, General motors, Ford, Chase Bank, First National Bank of New York, IBM, the list is a long one. from a historical perspecitve we see corporations being motivated by profit to the degree that they screw economies and trash lives, trample democracies whenever they need to to follow the $

  • See if you can spot the egregious fallacy in your own comment.

    I leave you with a question: Specifically some people who supported Nazi Germany were X, Y, and Z, the list is a long one. From a historical perspective we see people [insert predictable caricature of a socialist diatribe here, concerning man's greed]. So should we take every person out back and shoot them in the head? (That's actually a favorite tactic of socialists over the decades.)

  • RE: favourite tactics. you may like to ask yourself who is really guilty of predictable caricatures above. Socialists in europe have often had ownership of the state, they still do in many countries. They have generally been regarded as good stewards, caracterized by strengthening institutions which protect workers from the excess of corporate 'greed', free health care etc. corporations do not have a manifesto for heaven on earth, they are an engine of business motivated by profit.

  • How in the hell is the environment "cleaner"? The environment is being systematically destroyed for higher production.

  • Um, no, that's not true at all. The dirtiest places in the world are the under developed countries with immature economies. Your claim has absolutely zero basis in reality.

    Don't do that.  Look things up before you comment, please.

  • Um, If by dirty you mean places with too many trees, then it is true that large corporations cut those down on an industrial scale, and all that dirty oil is pumped into the atmosphere as nice clean co2. Liberia is developed by the arms trade? wall mart helps workers to work for a few cents a day?etc..

    the fact is that it is when people oraganize against big business in the developing world, that we see progress, because then possibilities for democracy and restraint of the corps arise arise!

  • No, I don't mean "trees" when I say "dirty"--what a silly, intellectually lazy, fallacious way to go, there. I apologize, I was under the impression that I was having a dialogue with someone who is at least slightly intelligent and serious.

  • you detected the note of sarcasm then.. the point i was trying to make, and this is difficult in this limited format, was that, although corporations are, de facto, the means by which we trade and develop these days, the profit motive is not a panacea. it requires institutions which posit restraint on laissez fair enterprise to bring about sustainability and social justice.

    The advancement also comes from unions, civil rights groups, these are often at odds to the interests of corps.

  • No, it requires PEOPLE who "posit restraint on laissez fair enterprise". Corporations are people, just as governments are people. Given the choice of a corporation, with whom I may choose not to do business, and a government which uses force, I prefer the corporation. Also, notably, the unions, rights groups, etc., exist only in mature economies, which do NOT arise from centrally controlled. Socialists are parasites.

  • Rights groups, unions and other bodies almost always exclusivly call themselves socialist, everywhere except in the special case of the soviet union and china, where 'state capitalist' or degenerated states pose under the same banner. It is a definition of socialism; the movement against oppressive regimes - to establish governments (which always use force by means of police, army incidentally.) which favour the interest of the citizenry against an elite owning class or powerful corporation.

  • Socialism itself is, by definition, an oppressive regime. Your self-serving definition notwithstanding, socialism is--at its core--the use of force to take property from individuals so that it can be distributed to the masses in a manner that is subjectively considered to be "fair" by the oligarchy that is in power (and, notably, who almost always are exempt from the rules that everyone else is expected to follow). Again, I'll take my chances with corps that need my support.

  • you are right of course, except that, every form of government, if it has laws and an executive is oppressive. Government is the moderation of power groups withing society; whether they are unions or corporations. 'fair' is best judged by democracy, A definition of socialism which does not include this term, does/should not qualify.

    it defnies a democratically planned economy & common ownership:like a kibbhuz perhaps, this will still oppress sociopathic behaviour for the common good.

  • It oppresses mans basic right to provide for himself. Socialism is slavery (luckily it comes in increments). A person is forced to work for the benefit of others.

    And, as I said before, without the hard work of people and corporations who are motivated by personal gain, socialism is nothing. Socialism is a parasitic system which enslaves people and bleeds itself dry. There is nothing noble or desirable about such a pathetic state of affairs.

  • capitalism also comes in increments, it tends towards oligarcy also in the form of monopoly and fascism. Also, it denys freedom to kings to rule over the destiny of man by birthright alone, it developed out of the contradictions of feudalism and requires the criteria of profit.

    it's own contradiction is that profit is not wealth, although it's apologists would wish this to be the case.

    it is the negation of this contradiction so that man may enrich himself rationally and not be slave to profit

  • socialism is in fact the belief that a man does not have the right to live for his own sake, and that the products of his labor must be forcefully extorted from him for redistribution by a state. it is incompatible with the nonaggression principle and the philosophy of nonviolence. the only legitimate useage of violence is that which is required in self defense. the aggressive initiation of violence to achieve any end is immoral. i must respect your right to your body as you must respect mine.

  • socialism is democratically planned economy with a cap on wealth, something the word needs more and more these days. we all have an aweful lot in common, it is becoming more and more obvious that some industries such as food, energy and water distribution would benefit us all, if market forces were relaxed in favour of agreements and strategy. the horror of capitalism is war crisis and waste. feudalism lasted 1000 years before we moved on.capitalism will seem as archaic one day.

  • and indeed, it is avoiding violence which is the root of my philosophy also, history shows us though that, just as kings and the catholic church resisted any attempts at new forms of social organization, so capitalism will savegly put down it's own opponents when necessary. i abhor violence, marx himself thought that it wouldn't be needed in a transition to socialism, let us hope we can develop into a better and fairer world without it. there is no recipe, the point is democracy not plutocracy

  • no. socialism in and of itself is violence. as i have already stated, socialism is the belief that the individual does not have the right to live for his own sake, and thus the products of his labor must be forcefully extorted from him at gunpoint. the individual is forced to work at gunpoint for the sake of other people. it is violence.