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  1. Alliance for Non-Violent Action
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1982
  2. Alliance For Non-Violent Action (ANVA)
    Organization profile published 1986
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1986
  3. Allow the Water
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  4. Bureau of Public Secrets
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  5. Bustan
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice in Israel/Palestine. BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.
  6. A Case For Non-violent Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  7. The Challenge to Violence
    New Internationalist, August 2005 - #381
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
  8. Defence without armies
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  9. Free Association
    Revolutionary Committees as a Method of Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The revolutionary committee "More to Come" elucidates its vision of collective uprising and revolution. While abhoring the use of violence, the group acknowledges the need for defense against reactionary government that would see to overturn the revolution.
  10. Gandhi Today
    A Report on Mahatma Gandhi's Successors
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  11. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  12. The Joy of Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I’m afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
  13. A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  14. Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
    The Case of India
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
  15. On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
  16. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  17. Piecing It Together
    Feminism and Non-Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  18. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  19. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  20. Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
  21. Twentieth Century Pacifism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  22. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
  23. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
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