Way of Peace : Exploring Nonviolence for the 21st Century

By: Shannon Mcmanimon

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Synopsis: Anyone who has been paying attention knows that ours is a world filled with violence. This violence takes many forms: poverty, abuse, environmental destruction, war, hatred. We just ended the most blood-filled century in history. Could it be that our world has accorded violence the status of a religion? After all, our world tells and shows us to meet violence with violence, to fight fire with fire. Violence is glorified over and over again, in the media, in our national budgets, in our methods of dealing with personal problems.
Is there a better way? Can we end the glorification of violence? Can we challenge-and change-its status and begin to live in obedience to a different way of being in the world? What might this way--which many people have called "nonviolence"-look like? This book, attempting to answer some of these questions, is an introductory guide to the spirit and practice of nonviolence, the way of peace. It draws on the developing tradition of nonviolence in recent decades as practiced by Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day and Cesar Chavez and Lech Walesa and countless women and men in widely scattered parts of the world. All of these people experimented with another method for constructive social change, of peacemaking in the face of conflict, of an alternate way of living their personal lives.