Posts tagged with "nonviolence"



Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking against the Vietnam War (photo Minnesota Historical Society under Creative Commons license).
15. April 2020
Following from the last blog post on power and violence, we can start from a shared view that peacebuilding challenges the abuse of power. We have noted that technical implementation of programmes, or the dissemination of information, awareness raising or negotiating an accommodation between two violent opponents may all contribute to peacebuilding, but if they do not address issues of power then they do not go to the source of violence. We also observed that, by contrast, the most prominent...