Chapter 1:
Personal Peacemaking and Nonviolent Responses to Assault
Suggested reading:
Nonviolent Response to Assault by Gerard A. Vanderhaar, If We Listen Well by Lanzo del Vasto,
Human Nature Isn't Inherently Violent by Alfie Kohn, Teaching
Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer, What Would You Do If by Joan Baez
Classroom activities: define nonviolence, hot and cold violence, conflict,
pacifism; The nonviolence Grid
Videos:
Colman McCarthy C-SPAN at Georgetown
Assignment: essay questions
Chapter 2:
Intro to Gandhi
Suggested
reading:
Ahimsa by Gandhi, Family Satyagraha by Eknath Easwaren, Love by Gandhi, and
the Doctrine of the Sword by Gandhi
Suggested
reading:
Poverty and Precarity by D. Day, The Scandal of the Works of Mercy by D. Day,
Dorothy Day by Colman McCarthy, Blessed are the Peacemakers by Father John
Dear, S.J.
Classroom activities: discuss intentional communities, define and discuss
precariousness, Jesus the Peacemaker
Videos:
School of the Americas
Assignment: essay questions
Chapter 4:
Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and modern-day implications
for racism and justice
Suggested
reading:
Loving Your Enemies by MLK, Declaration of Independence from the War in
Vietnam by MLK, Pilgrimage to Nonviolence by MLK, No More Prisons
by William Upski Wimsatt, Dead Man Walking by Sr. Helen Prejean
Classroom activities: define civil disobedience, discipline and creativity,
civil rights, Proposition 21, juvenile injustice, capital punishment,
retributive and restorative justice, Truth and Reconciliation commission
Videos:
A Time for Justice,
A
Force More Powerful, Dateline NBC on capital punishment
Assignment: essay questions
Chapter 5:
International Peacemaking efforts: Present-day King and Gandhi campaigns
Suggested
reading:
The Secret Behind the Sanctions by Thomas Nagy, The Children of Iraq by Leah
C. Wells, Ramallah by Jeff Guntzel
Classroom activities: first memories, talents and life goals, money and
priorities
Videos:
Seeds of Peace, Paying the Price, Greetings from Missile Street
Assignment:
essay questions
Chapter 6:
Feminism, Peace and Power
Suggested
reading:
Feminism, Peace and Power by Mary Roodkowsky, To the Women of India by Gandhi,
An American Shero of 1941 by Colman McCarthy, Pictsweet and Farm Workers
by
Leah C. Wells, A Widow's Plea for Nonviolence by Amber Amundson, Ten Reasons
to Oppose Standardized Tests by Bill Wetzel
Classroom activities: describe gender differences between girls and boys,
outline gender inequalities in education and job opportunities, violability of
person and potential for violence, concepts of power and strength, strength,
define autodidactic
Videos:
A Bug's Life
Assignment: essay questions
Chapter 7: Nonviolent Action
Suggested
reading:
The Technique of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent
Action by Gene Sharp, Albert Einstein on Pacifism, Letter to Ernesto Cardinal
by Daniel Berrigan, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau,
The Judge &
the Bomb by Judge Miles Lord, Patriotism or Peace by Tolstoy,
Classroom activities: newspaper fact finding, analysis of nonviolent
initiatives, man's law and God's law
Videos:
Amnesty International & the environment
Assignment: essay questions
Chapter 8:
Conscientious Eating and Animal Rights
Suggested
reading:
Diet for a New America by John Robbins, Diet for a Small Planet by John
Robbins
Classroom activities: why not adopt from the pound?, do animals have rights,
define slippery slope, vegetarian, vegan, myths and truths
Videos:
Meet Your Meat, Skin Trade, Vegetarian Facts and Myths
