What radical tactics might those seeking transformational action on climate or environmental sustainability undertake? options are capable of stopping actors and institutions who already realize their actions behavior may harm millions, degrade the biosphere, contaminate climate, but continue to do so, despite scientific moral reasons not to? This paper explores efforts that can vigorously conf...

Violence, despite all the democratic efforts of politicians, has not been overcome. As a result, humanity was forced to find balance between violence and nonviolence. On one hand, is necessary maintain law order, but on other it needs be normalized regulated. Since emergence ancient philosophy, as basis European culture, many its representatives have offered their ideas for better way life soci...

In this theoretical article, the qualities of artist for peacebuilding and peace education are explored. Peacebuilding not only based on skills knowledge, but also art, a creative process that originates in our imagination. The question guiding paper is: How can we, as peacebuilders educators, imagine, invent, create cultures build spaces others to do so? Based Lederach’s moral imagination, I p...

This article puts political philosopher Judith Butler in conversation with Gandhi, on the topic of nonviolent resistance. More particularly, we compare them a systematic philosophical level. Although focus Gandhi’s more activist side, by delving into ontological presuppositions that and Gandhi share, can do some justice to how his activism is firmly rooted faith-based understanding world. We di...

Food choices are extremely personal and no one has a right to dictate others in this matter. Although I was raised a strict vegetarian in India, I have given up extreme vegetarianism. This short essay discusses some moral and practical issues. The arguments are placed in separate paragraphs so that a reader who disagrees with me can refer to speci c points of disagreements. Since the context fo...

Over 40 published program evaluations have attempted to address the effectiveness of ‘‘batterer programs’’ in preventing reassaults. Summaries and meta-analysis of these evaluations suggest little or no ‘‘program effect.’’ Methodological shortcomings, however, compromise most of these quasiexperimental evaluations. Three recent experimental studies appear to confirm little or no effect, but imp...