The purpose of this paper is to explore perceptions theoretical foundations nonviolence theory by modern students and their willingness apply ideas everyday life. study problem lies in the fact that, general, scantily explored phenomenon mostly studied context philosophical ethical understanding, ideology, politics. While values individual local application life still remain unexplored. Researc...

The developments in the contemporary world, particularly the revolutions, coups and wars, have led to development of many theories about social movements. One of the methods used in social movements to bring about sociopolitical change is nonviolence. Nonviolent method of struggle was theorized by Gene Sharp, who collected and introduced 198 methods of nonviolent actions, protest and persuasion...

Winkler This paper stems from an endeavor to understand how social capital can be established between conflicted groups, with a goal of exchanging division for a cooperative drive toward national development. The ethnically divided societies of Rwanda and Guatemala are used as cases to examine the role education systems perform on social capital. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, I...

Dijital çağın hızlı döngüsünde bir taraftan her gün şiddetin farklı şekilleriyle tanışan insanoğlu, da yüzyıllardır süre gelen ve çözümsüz hale gelmiş ötekileştirme garabetine cevap aramaya çalışmaktadır. Bu çalışma; geçtikçe evrildiği kılıklara girdiği dünyada 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında dönemde sadece barışla, şiddetsiz eylemle, yürüyüşle şiddete karşı koyan Martin Luther King’e odaklanmakt...

Debates on war and peace within Jain Hindu traditions revolve around the fear of incurring individual bad karma from violence, potentially inhibiting individual’s journey to spiritual liberation. Generally, religious culture both elevates nonviolence one highest moral principles. Jainism embraces ahiṃsā (non-harming) as central doctrine, exalt non-harming disciplines virtues (dharma). However, ...