Nonviolence Radio

Nonviolence and utopian thinking go hand in hand, or so argues Safoora Arbab on this week’s episode of Nonviolence Radio. Utopian thinking is about what is possible, not what is impossible, she posits, and when coupled with nonviolence, we have both a roadmap and a means for achieving a more balanced and inclusive political identity. The goal may be “ever receding” as Gandhi said, and yet, without...

How does the way that we live contribute to a nonviolent society? As the pace of society speeds up, fewer and fewer people are finding fulfillment in the promise a world that is based on advancing technology, consumerism, and depersonalization. Yet there are pockets around the world who are experimenting with community life as a solution to our society’s ills. While this does not mean that there w...

Renowned Palestinian activist and humanitarian Mubarak Awad on nonviolence, his activism, and insights for action as the conflict in Israel-Palestine continues to smoulder. 

The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi goes well beyond the Indian Freedom Struggle. He has influenced countless movements and struggles for freedom and democracy around the world, decolonization struggles, including the Civil Rights Movement within the United States. On today’s show, we speak with P. Anand Rao who is a professor of Communications and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington in...

00:35 | Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding Course 01:17 | Third Harmony Screening in Jalgaon 01:46 | Meta Peace Team Trainings | Nonviolence Skills Practice Hour 02:59 | Campaign Nonviolence workshops 03:19 | Stephen Zunes Sudan's 2019 Revolution 04:22 | Digital Nonviolence 05:09 | Strategies and Inspirations for Addressing the Crisis in Housing 05:53 | Votercade for John Lewis Voting Rights...

In this episode -- Chauvin Verdict Healing Our City April 21 Healing Our City Reflection Darnell L Moore Ma'Khia Bryant "Madman with a Sword” analogy Restorative Justice Animation & Resources Resources Free Bystander Intervention & De-escalation Trainings For Goodness Sake: Music for the Nonviolent Future Planned Actions for Campaign Nonviolence Action Week Rivera Sun's Upco...

“Share the Day” — this is a translation of a greeting from the ocean world of Shora, which was a world created by Joan Slonczewski. She’s a science fiction writer and professor at Kenyon College. This is from her 1986 novel “ A Door into Ocean .” The book describes a society of people who are committed to nonviolence at a very, very deep level — and not just an emotional, sentimental kind of “do n...

“Share the Day” – this is a translation of a greeting from the ocean world of Shora which was a world created by Joan Slonczewski. She’s a science fiction writer and professor at Kenyon College. This is from her 1986 novel, A Door Into Ocean . The book describes a society of people who are committed to nonviolence at a very, very deep level – and not just an emotional, sentimental kind of ‘do no h...

In the two weeks immediately following the Georgia attack that killed 8 people, 6 of them Asian women, over 40,000 people signed up for trainings in bystander intervention with an incredible organization called Hollaback! They’re really leaders in the world of bystander intervention as a tool to end harassment, teaching a framework known as the “Five Ds” (Distract, Delegate, Document, Delay, and D...

How Hollaback! is Creating a Culture of Communty Accountability and Mutual Respect In the two weeks immediately following the Georgia attack that killed 8 people, 6 of them Asian women, over 40,000 people signed up for trainings in bystander intervention with an incredible organization called Hollaback! They’re really leaders in the world of bystander intervention as a tool to end harassment, teac...

Nonviolence Report, a segment of Nonviolence Radio In this episode --  00:38 Jain Studies -- Teaching Peace 01:20 https://worldbeyondwar.org/video-greta-zarro-on-organizing-101/ 01:53 https://kingandbreakingsilence.org/ 02:29 https://www.eastpointpeace.org/ytbn101 03:23 https://www.eastpointpeace.org/ 03:48      https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/michaels_book_is_here 04:59 https://www.forbe...

Bystander Intervention is a way to get the skills and the training that we need to feel comfortable in community situations to be able to de-escalate violence that’s in word from other people or in deeds.  On the show today,  is Mary Hanna a core team member of the Meta Peace Team .

The Nonviolence Report, a segment of Nonviolence Radio, with Michael Nagler.

This week Nonviolence Radio revisits a 2018 interview with Yasmin Maydhane and Carmen Lauzon from Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization dedicated to effective nonviolent conflict resolution. Yasmin and Carmen talk about their work doing unarmed civilian protection in South Sudan and the Philippines, respectively. They share inspiring stories about the power of entering into dangerous conflict are...

The Nonviolence Report with Michael Nagler for March  5th, 2021. In this Episode -- Digital savviness DC Peace Team Capitol Report Meta Peace Team going to Israel-Palestine Basic Training for UCP Peace and Justice Studies Association Nonviolence International webinar Myanmar protestors killed .  Principled Nonviolence   Obstructive program   Constructive program Abdul Ghaffar Khan --  My Life and...

This week, after the Nonviolence Report. Nonviolence Radio broadcasts a recording of a speech by Dr. Fania Davis, founder of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, a legal scholar, and a decades-long activist in the civil rights anti-racial violence, anti-apartheid, Black liberation, women’s, prisoner’s, peace, socialist and anti-imperialist movements. Dr Davis talks about the power of restorative...

This week, Michael and Stephanie talk about reparations (and more) with UC Berkeley professor emeritus, Charles Henry, who is also the former president of the National Council for Black Studies and former chair of Amnesty International USA. In 2007, years ahead of his time, Professor Henry wrote a book on the issue of reparations, Long Overdue. The Politics of Racial Reparations . Reparation, Prof...

Michael Nagler gives the Nonviolence Report for February 5, 2021. In this episode - 00:31 President Biden ending support for the war in Yemen. 01:17 10-point Plan for peace president.  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/02/ten-point-plan-make-joe-biden-peace-time-president 1:56 The end of private prisons by the U.S. Justice Department 2:23 Overturning the Muslim ban. Rejection of KXL pipel...

Stephen Zunes, professor of Politics and International Studies at University of San Francisco, joins Michael and Stephanie on this episode of Nonviolence Radio to talk about how the coup attempt on January 6 reveals some remarkable and genuinely hopeful forces growing inside our democracy. Rather than fear and outrage, Professor Zunes encourages us to take heart in the effective and well-planned n...

This week’s episode of Nonviolence Radio pays special tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. on the 92nd anniversary of his birth. Michael begins by going over some nonviolence news, covering events in the US and abroad. He highlights the urgent need to listen, to see each other -- whatever our different beliefs -- as fellow humans, all of us in need of a sense of belonging to a meaningful world. This...

This week’s episode of Nonviolence Radio is a recording of a talk given by Vandana Shiva, environmentalist, activist, author, and scholar. For decades, Shiva has been advocating -- nonviolently -- for sustainable agriculture, for the rights of small farmers, for biodiversity, for women. She calls for a shift not only in the way we grow and distribute food, but a radical change in the way we unders...

Dr. Jude Currivan -- cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer and author of the new book, The Cosmic Hologram -- is this week’s guest on Nonviolence Radio, and she ‘illuminates’ for listeners (and readers) a new perspective from which to understand the cosmos. This perspective captures the essential unity that permeates every level of existence, from the atomic, to the personal, to the galactic. Wi...

In this episode of Nonviolence Radio, Michael Nagler interviews Mel Duncan, the co-founder and Director of Advocacy and Outreach for Nonviolent Peaceforce, a world leader in unarmed civilian protection. Mel represents Nonviolent Peaceforce at the United Nations where the group has been granted consultative status. Nonviolent Peaceforce provides direct protection to civilians caught in violent conf...

This week, Michael Nagler moves out of his seat as co-host on Nonviolence Radio to take the place of interviewee. Stephanie asks Michael about the course of his life -- which could well be three or four lives! Michael was a professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at UC Berkeley and co-founded its Peace and Conflict Studies Program, he also co-founded and continues to act as president of t...

Let the Pain Not Spread Let the pain not spread Build a porous wall around it Lest it seep into the soil Harvest it Plant flowers in it Lest it rise in a tightened fist, gritty scowl, hardened stare Or fall,                                 driving a buoyant angel from the sky