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Articles 2001-2005

 

TFF Associate, activist and writer for nonviolence, December 5, 2005
Martin Smedjeback
See all his articles under his CV from places where he has practised nonviolence.

Jørgen Johansen, TFFs styrelse, 21:e maj, 2005
Fredelige revolusjoner
De siste fem årene har vi sett at massive folkelige bevegelser har styrtet statsledelsen i mange land verden rundt. I nesten alle av disse bevegelsene har studenter spilt en avgjørende rolle.

Chaiwat Satha-Anand, TFF Associate, April 28, 2005
Non-violence and the State
Satha-Anand answers questions from a student
about this relation and about Muslim-Buddhist co-operation - with reference to the situation in Thailand.
 

Saltmarchen 75 år - Reclaim Gandhi
En nordisk hemsida full av information
1930 blev Saltmarschen i Indien början på slutet för det brittiska kolonialväldet och inspiration för världens solidaritetsrörelser. Gandhi gick in för direkt aktion och var kritisk mot dem som använde tanken om ickevåld som ursäkt för passivitet. Därför uppmärksammar vi 75-årsjubiléet av Saltmarschen. Du kan också delta. Sprid information! Ordna ett möte eller utställning! Delta i gemensamma aktiviteter!

Gene Sharp's nya bok
Waging Nonviolent Struggle. 20th Century Struggle and 21st Century Potential

TFF Feature Collection, January 15, 2005
Martin Luther King, Jr. - who could have turned 76 today

PressInfo # 204, December 15, 2004
Beyond Violence and Hatred in Southern Thailand
The Queen's speech on November 16 was a remarkable wake-up call for the whole Thai society about the seriousness of violence in Southern Thailand. Heeding Her Majesty's admonitions from a nonviolence perspective, some concrete nonviolent alternatives, are proposed here. By TFF Associate Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Bangkok.

Jørgen Johansen, TFF Board member, December 1, 2004
Deterrent Nonviolence - The Case of the Norwegian struggle against gas power
The best-prepared and most successful large-scale civil disobedience action in Scandinavian history never took place. Johansen tells the remarkable story that could inspire many others.

TFFs nordiske Gandhi-bibliografi - Publiceret i oktober 2004
Bøger om og af Gandhi, tidsskriftsartikler, videos og lænker - på norsk, dansk og svensk, rækkende cirka 80 år tilbage i tiden
Oversigten er udarbejdet af TFF-frivilllige Kirsten Rønnow Due, og vi vil gerne have kommentarer og forslag til forbedringer.

IGNIS - Centre for Partnership in Development, Oslo, 29 september 2004, 2004
Første nummer af "The Gandhian View" -
Avisen som ser verden og historien i et fredsperspektiv

Omfattende undervisningsmateriale, dagen o historien, ikkevoldens store navne og begivenheder. (pdf 4.6 MB)
TFF ønsker tillykke med denne store satsning: Uundværlig for enhver som vil sætte Gandhi og ikkevold ind i dagens situation og bruge inspirationen og styrken i begge klogt, siger Jan Øberg. Se også IGNIS.

Senthil Ram, June 30, 2004
The Pragmatism in Tibetan Nonviolent Politics
Nonviolence is principally embedded in Tibetan polity due to Buddhist influence.

Bhikhu Parekh, 2004
Why Terror?
If he were alive today, how might Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest apostle of non-violence, challenge Osama bin Laden's worldview?

Neelakanta Radhakrishnan, TFF Associate, March 26, 2004
Enrolling 100,000 Families Pledged to Nonviolence on August 09, 2004 (Quit India Day)
A multi-tier people's programme commences the First Phase with 'Enrolling 100,000 Families Pledged to Nonviolence on August 09, 2004(Quit India Day)' - an initiative of Indian Council of Gandhian Studies, New Delhi in association with institutions and organisations promoting peace.

Richard Falk, TFF Associate, March 12, 2004
A New Gandhian Moment?
Gandhi articulated his view that change, to be beneficial, needed to be achieved by nonviolent struggle.

Tom Weber, January 28, 2004
Reading Gandhi
Our knowledge of the life of Mahatma Gandhi has been limited to political biographies. A spiritual or constructive work biography, with his political campaigns being mere extensions to the periods he spent on self-discovery or social work, would give us a more complete picture of Gandhi.

Richard Falk, January 28, 2004
Gandhi, Nonviolence and the Struggle Against War
Looking back in time, we can understand that it is an error to be too literal in anticipating the Gandhian Moment, but it would be a greater error to dismiss the possibility, and reconcile ourselves either to endless and escalating cycles of violence or to the "unpeace" of injustice and oppression.

Peter Rühe, January 27, 2004
GandhiServe Foundation - Newsletter 2 (January - March)
The second issue of the foundation's newsletter, providing the reader with the latest information from GandhiServe Foundation

Peter Rühe, November 19, 2003
GandhiServe Foundation - Newsletter (Nov./Dec.)
The first issue of the foundation's newsletter, providing the reader with the latest information about exhibitions, tours, etc.

Bernt Jonsson, November 7, 2003
International Presence in The Holy Land
Eye witnesses on the spot, who are a danger to the credibility of the propagated image, represent a threat to an acceptance of the performed policy as justifiable. A strategic response is then...to prevent their presence and...limit it.

Two TFF Associates in peace video
Gandhi-King-Ikeda - A Legacy of Building Peace
A moving documentary with Gandhi, Luther King Jr., TFF Associates Ikeda & Radhakrishnan

N. Radhakrishnan, TFF Associate, February 24, 2003
Gandhi in the Globalised Context
Gandhian scholars, peace activists, development experts, scholars and writers of eminence are busy looking at the legacy of Gandhi, particularly the holistic vision of Gandhi and the emphasis and the strategies associated with him, against the background of the emerging challenges in various fields in the post-Gandhian period.

Glenn D. Paige 2002
Nonkilling global political science

David McReynolds, Nonviolence.Org, November 19, 2002
Philosophy of Nonviolence
A summary of the basic philosophy of nonviolence.

Glenn D. Paige*, September 13, 2002
The Ancient Global Lesson of 9:11 - No More Killing!
"Most humans who have ever lived have never directly killed anyone. The global lesson of 9.11 is that we humans must learn to stop killing each other from domestic homicide to war."

Ralph Summy, IPRA, September 6, 2002
Nonviolent Response to Sept 11
One act of terror...does not justify the retaliation of another act of terror. Not only is such a response immoral but it does not make good political sense.

Ruth Rosen, AlterNet.org, August 6, 2002
The Power of Peaceful Protest
"Our weapon is our nakedness," Helen Odeworitse, a leader of 600 women who peacefully seized control of an oil terminal in Escravos, Nigeria, told the Associated Press. Odeworitse and other women held 700 western oil workers hostage and shut down a facility that exports half a million barrels of oil a day.

Ruth Rosen, AlterNet.org, August 6, 2002
The Power of Peaceful Protest
"Our weapon is our nakedness," Helen Odeworitse, a leader of 600 women who peacefully seized control of an oil terminal in Escravos, Nigeria, told the Associated Press. Odeworitse and other women held 700 western oil workers hostage and shut down a facility that exports half a million barrels of oil a day.

Charles L. Alphin, Sr., February 26, 2002
Kingian Nonviolence as an Alternative to Terrorist and Anti-Terrorist Killing and War
The weapon of Kingian nonviolence was successful. Therefore, it would behoove us to examine some basic aspects of Kingian nonviolence and its application to terrorism and violence. My paper will examine Dr. King's experiment with nonviolence in the 1960's and hopefully stimulate serious discussion concerning the Kingian nonviolence application to terrorism today.

David Cortright, in The Nation, February 18, 2002
The power of nonviolence
On the role of nonviolence in the global justice movement. "The choice of nonviolence should not be left to chance. It must be integrated into every element of the global justice movement.

Sara E. Ellis*, January 29, 2002
Kasturba: a life - Book Review

Arun Gandhi, grandson to Mohandas and Kasturba, has written a thorough account of Kasturba's life. By having chosen to embark on difficult research into his grandmother's life, including her first years which are not well-documented, Arun ensures that the reader receives an intimate and life-long portrait of this amazing woman.

Walter Wink, YES! - Winter 2001-2002
Can love save the world?

Arun Gandhi
Nonviolence in the 21st Century: Challenges and Choices
The question that we need to ask is, therefore, not whether nonviolent is relevant but whether we are willing to move away from greed, selfishness and all the negative attributes that govern our lives to the more positive attributes of love, compassion, understanding and respect. The choice is ours to make.

Karl E. Meyer, New York Times, Dec 7, 2001
The Peacemaker of the Pashtun Past
This forgotten chapter suggests that Islam is more mutable than either its radical adherents or its Western detractors allow - and that Pashtun history offers an extraordinary precedent for peace as well as a legacy of war.

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About Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988)
Non-Violence in Islam - the case of Abdul Hgaffar Khan.
Comprehensive background from the Danish Peace Academy.

A. K. Ramakrishnan
Mahatma Gandhi rejected Zionism
"Do not be so silly as to resort to terrorism..." Gandhi's views on the Palestine and Jewish question as he expressed them between 1938 and 1946.

Øyvind Tønnesson
Mahatma Gandhi - the missing laureate. Why was Gandhi never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held - in retrospect - that the Indian national leader should have been the very man to be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?

Arun Gandhi
Terrorism and nonviolence
The memory of those victims will be better preserved if we learn to forgive and dedicate our lives to helping create a peaceful, respectful and an understanding world.

Ashis Nandy*
Gandhi After Gandhi - The Fate of Dissent in Our Times

Vivek Pinto
Gandhi - writing for change

The peace Nobel and the Mahatma

Richard Deats
The People Power Revolution in the Philippines: Lessons Learned for theTwenty-first Century

Tom Weber*
Gandhi is dead. Long live Gandhi - the post-Gandhi Gandhian movement in India

David Hartsough & Mel Duncan
A Global Nonviolent Peace Force
Nonviolent Peace Force

Per Gahrton*
Proposal for a Civil European Peace Corps

Per Gahrton*
EU - betänkande om civil fredskår

 

Travelogue
India- in the footsteps of Gandhi

Ten articles in English and Swedish

Brian Martin*
Research questions on nonviolence

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen*
Israel-Palestine: A call for peace action

Jan Oberg*
Peace work and movements at the turn of the century

Tom Weber*
Gandhi's Salt March as living sermon

Johan Galtung*
From demilitarised zones to zones of peace

Brian Martin*
Nonviolence fiction

Christian Hårleman
Civilian Peace-Keepers - a Future Challenge

Thomas Weber*
The Recurrent Vision and the Peace Brigade Movement

Richard Falk*
Mahatma Gandhi and the Revival of Nonviolent Politics in the Late 20th Century

Thomas Weber*
Gandhism, Optimism and the Gandhians

Fredrik Heffermehl
The Book "Peace Is Possible"

Ny film om Gandhi i Sydafrika
"Där våldet slutar börjar kärleken

Christian Hårleman* & Jan Oberg*
Peaceful Europe, Nonkilling Europe - Something different

Brian Martin*
Publications on peace, war and nonviolence

 

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TFFs nordiske Gandhi-
bibliografi -
Publiceret i oktober 2004

Bøger om og af Gandhi, tidsskriftsartikler, videos
og lænker -
på norsk, dansk og svensk,
rækkende cirka 80 år
tilbage i tiden

 

Første nummer af
"The Gandhian View" -
Avisen som ser verden og
historien i et fredsperspektiv

Dalai Lama

Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, India

Civilian Peace Service

Gandhi Information Center, Berlin

Gandhi Today

Center for Global
Nonviolence

Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service - Gandhiserve

M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

M.K. Gandhi Sarvodaya - many links

Nonviolence and its many facets - Terapanth

Nonviolence - IGC Weblinks - Many links

Nonviolence Web

Nonviolence Web links

Norbert's Bookmarks - Nonviolence

Norbert's Bookmarks - Nonviolent Action

  


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"Gandhi argued that the coward should take to violence because nonviolence requires a lot of courage. One could add that the intellectually lazy fellow chooses violence before even thinking of nonviolent options."

JAN OBERG, Director TFF

 

 

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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