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A Bioregional Approach to Teaching Sustainability and Resilience Online

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter describes how the first graduate program in resilient and sustainable communities has evolved over the past decade, maintaining its bioregional approach to distance learning while adapting the curriculum to meet new challenges in the age of climate change.
Laird Christensen
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Christian Conscientious Objectors during the Vietnam War Years 1964–72

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Many young Christian men faced a moral dilemma when selective military conscription was introduced in Australia during the Vietnam War from 1964–72. The legislation was the National Service Act in 1964 (NSA). Some believed that their Christian conscience
Geoffrey A Sandy
doaj   +1 more source

Religious Nonviolence: An Analysis of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper will look at the role religion played in shaping the individual movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh. “History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges ...
Campbell, Meghan
core   +1 more source

Justifying Uncivil Disobedience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A prominent way of justifying civil disobedience is to postulate a pro tanto duty to obey the law and to argue that the considerations that ground this duty sometimes justify forms of civil disobedience.
Lai, Ten-Herng
core   +1 more source

Towards an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence: A Critical Appraisal of Maulana Wahiduddin Khan\u27s View of Jihad (Part II) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In the second and last part of his article (see September issue, 671·80) Dr Omar explains the true meaning of Jihad in the ancient Islamic sources, which does not stand for violent warfare but for the struggle that every Muslim , indeed every person ...
Omar, Irfan A.
core   +2 more sources

Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examines whether state immigration enforcement policies, such as sanctuary policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, are associated with female homicide rates in the United States (2016–2021).
Kaitlin M. Boyle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonviolence and civil disobedience

open access: yesDesafíos, 2012
This paper analyzes and describes the relationship between nonviolence and civil disobedience, stressing that both of them converge on the same ethical foundation and are an expression of the relationship between citizens and the political power.
Gilma Ballesteros - Peluffo
doaj  

Revisiting Gandhi’s Idea of Trusteeship in the Context of Globalization and Inequality

open access: yesIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2021
Mahatma Gandhi’s idea of trusteeship is a pragmatic model of development that aims to attain economic equality in society. This idea is an alternative to communism and capitalism and is based on nonviolence and inclusivity.
Stefy V Joseph, Mucheli Rishvanth Reddy
doaj   +1 more source

Prize Winning Essays - 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
To promote The Season of Nonviolence, Citizens for Peace once again sponsored an essay contest for Michigan high school and college students. Their essays had to address the topic Peaceful Relationships through Active Nonviolence.
Abdoo, Ann
core   +1 more source

Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, pacifism and non-violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores feminist contentions over pacifism and non-violence in the contextof the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the 1980s and later developments offeminist Just War Theory.
Cameron D   +20 more
core   +1 more source

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