Dr. Michael Nagler - Nonviolence Today: The State of Humanity's Most Important Art

Dr. Michael Nagler, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley and President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence, gives an overview of the present state of awareness and practice of nonviolent techniques, stressing several new developments that give cause for hope despite the grim 'realities' of the global problématique. His presentation consists of four parts: (1) a general introduction and definition of terms: what does he mean by 'nonviolence' and how it is generally used in scholarly and activist discourse; similarly with associated terminology in vogue today; (2) The quantitative spread of global nonviolent action since Gandhi and King; (3) the qualitative differences in the general climate of dissent and specific advantages employed or waiting to be employed in nonviolent action today; and (4) where do we go from here?

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• nonviolence
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• metta center
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• gandhi
• martin luther king
• mirror neurons
• civil resistance
• ahimsa
• satyagraha
• nonviolent action

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