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Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) 164-A with Professor Michael Nagler
Getting Started
Overview
Materials
Section I: Background and General Principles
Overview: Strategic and Principled Nonviolence
More background: how 'science' and 'history' weigh in on the possibility of the 'NV effect'
The Vedanta as old/new paradigm: The Gita on human action and life's purpose
Section II: The Story Unfolds
The First Phase: Arrival in South Africa to the birth of Satyagraha (1893-1906); Constructive Program
Success in South Africa: Return to India and the year of silence.
Tragedy at Amritsar: rebellion heats up
The Final Phase: legacy of triumph and tragedy
Review
Section III: The Wester Experience of NV
NV in the West (yes, there is). Judeo-Christian & Islamic sources
Medieval and modem NV Christian sects; the Society of Friends (Quakers)
The American Civil Rights movement, I: Montgomery - Guest lecturers
Civil Rights Movement, II: King's last years
Section IV: The Legacy
The 'Wheel of NV'; Gandhian economics
Aspects of NV since Gandhi and King (a foretaste of PACS 164B)
Aspects of NV since Gandhi and King (a foretaste of PACS 164B)
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