abduction, 54
Abernathy, Ralph, 36
Academy of Change, 129
accompaniment, 141–42
Ackerman, Peter, 18n8
Adams, John, 13
Adel, Mohamed, 128–29
agape, 17n7
Aguirre, Gilberto, 61
ahimsa, 16
Al-Adly, Habib, 133
Alagamar Land Struggle, 13
Albright, Madeleine, 149
Algeria, 158–59
Al Jazeera, 124
alternatives, 167–72
Al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 129n49
American Revolution, 6
American Salt March, 31
Americas Watch, 51
Ammar, Rachid, 125
Amnesty International, 51, 64, 122, 125
Andes Mountains, 7
Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), 104
Antonio Valdivieso Ecumenical Center, 52
April 6 Youth Movement, 128–30
Argentina, 7
Ariyaratne, A. T., 144
Asatu, 106–7
Asher, Sarah Beth, 3n2
Attila the Hun, 5–6
Austria, 6
awareness, 116
Baez, Joan, 38
Baptists, 148
Battle of Tahrir, 138
Bhave, Vinoba, 142
Birmingham, 37–39
Black Panthers Convention, 14
blasphemy, 25
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 123–24
Boukhars, Anour, 126n32
Boulding, Kenneth, 1
Boynton, Amelia, 41
bravery, 17
Bridge, Edmund Pettus, 41
Brown, Archie, 83n3
Bryant, Gyude, 112
Bujak, Zbigniew, 89–90
Bulgaria, 11
Caligula, 4–5
Camel Charge Battle, 138
Catholic Bishops’ Conference, 70–71
censorship, 125
Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), 128–29
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 49, 54, 57
change, 130
Chavez, Cesar, 25
Chenoweth, Erica, 139, 159, 160, 162
Chile, 7
Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), 146–50, 169, 170
Christians, 137
civil rights, 43
Civil Rights Act, 40
Clark, James, 39–40
classless revolution, 72
Claver, Francisco, 66
Coffin, William Sloane, 36
collective ownership, 107
collectivization, 84
commitment, 158, 166, 167, 171
Committee for Defense of Workers (KOR), 86
common ground, 166–67
Communism, 79–82
community, 137
Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), 35, 43
Connor, Bull, 38
conscientious objectors, 62n54
Contras, 47–48, 51, 52, 58–59, 60–61
Cooper, Etweda, 104
coordination, 173
Cordova, Ernesto, 58
Cortright, David, 17n7
Costa Rica, 58–59
cowardice, 16
creativity, 132
credibility, 167
Crozier, Frank Percy, 10
curfew, 136
David, Randolf, 76
Day, Dorothy, 25
Day of Rage, 134
Deàk, Ferenc, 6
del Vasto, Lanza, 7
demobilization, 113
demonstrations, 23
Denmark, 11
dependency, 49
Desai, Narayan, 143
desegregation, 37
deterrence, 53–54, 60–61, 75–76, 142
Deutsch, Karl, 172
Diamond, Louise, 115
dictators, xiv, 11–12, 121–22, 131, 161–62, 167
disappointment, 90
disarmament, 113
discernment, x
dishonesty, 69
domestic violence, 116
Donovan, Nancy, 47
draft law, 62n54
Drummond, Eric, 9
Duncan, Mel, 152
Dutcher, Mary, 62n54
DuVall, Jack, 18n8
Ebola, 119
economic justice, 77
Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), 151–52, 170
education, 122
effectiveness, 16, 45, 168, 173
electric shock, 64
El Salvador, 11
emotion, 109
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 40
Esquivel, Adolfo Pérez, 66, 159
Esther, 108
Evangelical Committee for Aid and Development (CEPAD), 52, 61
Evers, Medgar, 39
evil, 160
exhaustion, 109
Facebook, 124, 125, 127–28, 132, 134
faith, 48
Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), 71
fascism, 10
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 32
Finland, 11
first century, 4–5
Flores, L. P., 74
forcefulness, 16
forgiveness, 114
fraudulent elections, 71, 96–97
Freedom House, 160
Freedom Riders, 35–37
Führer, Christian, 96–99
GAM (Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo), 145
Gandhi, Mahatma, xiii, 7, 15–20, 22–25, 27–28, 142, 159, 167
Gandhism, 31
Gayflor, Varah, 115
Gbowee, Leymah, 103, 104–7, 109–15, 116, 118
Général, El, 124
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), xv, 165
generalists, 170
genocide, xiv
Ghana, 111
Ghonim, Wael, 121, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 138
Gibbon, Edward, 5
Gish, Art, 150
God
power of, 58
prayer to, 75–76
Gomez, Hector, 145
goodness, 17n7
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 79–81, 92, 99
Goss-Mayr, Hildegard, 66–67, 68–69, 70, 169–70
Goss-Mayr, Jean, 66–67, 169–70
Gramdan movement, 143
Gregory, Dick, 38
Guatemala, 11–12
guerrilla warfare, 47–62
guilt, x
Guzman, Jacobo Arbenz, 49
Hamas, 149–50
Hammerskjöld, Dag, 143
Hartsough, David Ray, 152
Hebron, 148–50
helplessness, 137
Himmler, Heinrich, 11
history, 3–14
Hitler, Adolf, 10, 81, 84, 162
Hoekema, David, 160
Honduras, 52
Honecker, Erich, 99
hope, 118
human nature, 160
human rights, 62n54
humiliation, 30, 90, 112, 122, 123, 132
Hungary, 6
illiteracy, 50
imperialism, 6
India, 15–20, 23–25, 31, 158–59
industrialization, 84
inflation, 123
Institute on Nonviolent Resistance to Segregation, 31–32
Inter-Factory Strike Committee (MKS), 87–88
interfaith effort, 106
international accompaniment, 142
International Atomic Energy Agency, 130
International Commission of Jurists, 64
International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, 164
international public opinion, 172
Internet, 122, 124, 125, 127–28
interpositioning, 53–54, 58, 153
invasion, 56
Iran-Contra Affair, 60
Iraq, 148
Islamic extremism, 122, 126n32
Jackson, Jimmy Lee, 41
Jagielski, Mieczyslaw, 88
Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 90–91
Jesus Christ
Anabaptists on, 146–47
moral power of, 172
teaching of, 137
John Paul II (Pope), xv, 86–87, 90, 93, 163, 171
Johnson, Lyndon B., 40, 41, 42
Josephus, 4
justice, 28, 30, 58, 66, 77, 167
Just War tradition, ix, xiv, 51, 158, 164, 166–67
Kapp, Wolfgang, 9
Kaunda, Kenneth, 143–44
Kefaya, 129
Kern, Kathleen, 148
Khalil, Ashraf, 135
Khan, Badshah, 21–23
King, Coretta, 34–35
King, Martin Luther, Jr., xiii, 7, 25, 27–45, 167
Kohl, Helmut, 100
Krenz, Egon, 99
Kuron, Jacek, 89
Kurtz, Lester R., 3n2
Kuttab, Jonathan, 150
Lacuesta, Amado L., Jr., 73
Latvia, 81
Lavella, Romeo Jr., 74
Lederach, John Paul, 115
Leo I (Pope), 5–6
Lewis, John, 42
Liberia, 103–19
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), 108
Liberian Women’s Initiative (LWI), 113n43
lynching, 28
Maggay, Melba, 71
Mahfouz, Asmaa, 132
mandate, 173
Marcos, Ferdinand, 63, 65, 68, 69, 71, 74
Marcos, Imelda, 64
Marker, Dennis, 62
Marovic, Ivan, 128–29
marriages, x
Marshall, Andrew Gavin, 123n13
Martínez, Maximiliano, 11–12
martyrdom, 177
Marx, Karl, 160–61
Marxist-Leninists, 50–51
mass murder, xiv
Mathis, Robet, 161
Mazowiecki, Tadeusz, 92
media attention, 37, 45, 54–55, 61, 107, 142, 148, 154
Mennonites, 146–47
Mennonite World Conference, 164
Mercado, Monina Allarey, 75
Milosěvić, Slobodan, 101, 129
moral equivalent, 8
morality, 116
Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), 108
Mubarak, Hosni, 126, 129, 131, 136, 137–38
Muslim Brotherhood, 129, 134, 137, 139
Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT), 151
Muslims, 21, 106, 109, 111, 137, 142–43
Naidu, Sarojini, 20
Nash, Diane, 32
National Association for Change, 130, 134
National Association of Evangelicals, xv, 164
National Citizens’ Movement for Free Election (NAMFREL), 69
National Council of Churches, 165
National Executive Commission (KKW), 91
Nejji, Houcine, 124
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 149
New People’s Army, 64
Nicaragua, 47–62
nightmares, x
Nkrumah, 31
Nobel Peace Prize, 40–41, 90, 92, 104, 118, 130, 159
non-attachment, 17n7
noncombatants, 51
nonlethal coercion, xv
nonnuclear weaponry, 169
nonviolence
alternatives of, 167–72
costly demands of, 175–76
definition of, xv
effectiveness of, 16, 45, 168, 173
integration of, 30
power of, 172–73
Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), 152–54
Norway, 10
oppression, 157
optimism, 77
pacifism, ix, xvi, 8, 147, 158, 166–67
Palestinians, 149–50
passive resistance, 16
passivity, 108
Pathans, 21–22
Peace Army, 9–10
Peace Brigades International (PBI), 144–46, 169, 170
peace studies, 168–69
peace treaty, 113
Petronius, 4–5
Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC), 71
phronesis, x
police brutality, 20, 39, 41, 44
Police Day, 131
Politburo, 99–100
Pontius Pilate, 4
Poor People’s March, 43–44
positivity, 130
post-traumatic stress, x
Pranao, Leonidas, xiii
prayer, 18, 73–76, 96–99, 103–119, 170, 171–72
preparation, 168
presence, 151
progress, 118
propaganda, 10
proportionality, ix
publicity. See media attention
public opinion, 54–55, 58, 61, 137, 172
Puri, Lakshmi, 117
Purificacion, Eduardo, 72
purification, 17
Qasr al-Nil Bridge, 135
Quainton, Anthony, 50
Quisling, Vidkun, 10
racism, 28–45
Rahman, Omar Abdel, 129n49
Rape Bill (2006), 117
Reagan, Ronald, 50, 55, 60–61, 75
Red Shirts, 21–22
Reeb, James, 42
reform, 91
resentment, 16
restorative justice, 118
retaliation, 16
revenge, 21
road gangs, 34
role-playing, 170
Roman Catholics, 86, 92, 163, 164
Rondon, Cândido, 7
Runcie, Robert, 171
Rural Solidarity, 89
Russia, 162
Said, Khaled, 126–28
salmeya, 135
salvaging, 64
Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), 50
sanity, 176
Sarvodaya, 144
secret police, 96
segregation, 28
self-immolation, 123–24
Selma, 40–42
Serbia, 101
Servants of God, 21
sex strike, 107
sexual violence, 104, 116, 137
shame, x
Shanti Sena, 142–43
Sharp, Gene, xiii–xvi, 7, 101, 108, 168
Shuttlesworth, Fred, 33
Sider, Ronald J., 141
Sikh, 22
Silent Stand, 127–28
Sin, Jaime Lachica, 70–71, 72, 74
sinfulness, 160
Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson, 116, 117–18
social justice, 116
social welfare, 8
Solidarity Provisional Council (TRS), 91
Somoza, Anastasio García, 48–50
South Africa, 16
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 30–33
South Sudan, 153
Soviet Communism, 79–82
Sri Lanka, 144
staff, 153
Stalin, Joseph, 81
Stephan, Maria, 139, 159, 160, 162
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 40, 43
study centers, 169
submission, 108
Subtavia, 57
success, 158
swaraj, 17–18
Swartzendruber, Loren, 119
Tagalog, 67
Tahrir Square, 133–38
Taliban, 21
Taylor, Charles, 103–4, 106–13
Taylor, Richard, 13
Taylor, Stuart, 57
tear gas, 73, 132–33, 134, 135, 150
television, 41–42, 45, 59, 61, 124
Temporary Coordinating Committee (TKK), 90
terminology, xv
terrorism, 69
testimony, 177
Thurman, Howard, 27
Tillich, Paul, 28
Tolstoy, Leo, 16
training centers, 169–70
trespassing, 33
Triennial Conference of War Resisters International, 143
truth, 16
Tubman, Winston, 117
Tunisia, 121, 122–25, 131, 139
Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), 124
Ubico, Jorge, 12
unarmed civilian peacekeeping (UCP), 152
United Nations, 143, 146, 153–54
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 104, 114
United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), 113–14
United Nations Security Council, 56, 151
Vance, Cyrus, 49
Vatican II, 163
Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, xv, 164
Victores, Óscar, 145
Vietnam War, 43
Voter Education Project, 37
voter registration, 31, 40–43, 115
Walesa, Lech, 7, 25, 83, 84–85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92
Wallace, George, 42
Walzer, Michael, 161
Warsaw Uprising, 84
water torture, 64
weakness, 58
We Are All Khaled Said, 129–30, 138
Weigel, George, 92
West, Johnny, 127n40
Wilhelm II, 9
Witness for Peace (WFP), 47–48, 52–62, 170
Wojtyla, Karol Józef. See John Paul II (Pope)
Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET), 104–5, 112, 114
Wood, E. F. L. (Lord Irwin), 19
World Council of Churches (WCC), xv, 150, 151, 165, 170–71
World Health Organization, 104
World Peace Brigade, 143
Wounded Knee (1973), 13
Wright, Ann, 152
Wyszynski, Stefan, 86
Yeltsin, Boris, 81
Yoder, John Howard, ix
Youth of the Muslim Brotherhood, 129
Zambia, 143–44
Zedong, Mao, 172
Zunes, Stephen, 3n2