What do I call this resource page? Peace? Compassion? Social justice? Reconciliation? Social healing? These words are all important aspects of a way of living that I value and aspire to. Like the five blind men describing the elephant, each of them touches a slightly different perspective on the same thing and yet I cannot find the word that describes the elephant.
Articles & Documents
- U. S. Peace Index
- The Peace Army (interview with the leaders of the Non-violent Peace Force)
Audio Recordings
Blogs
Books
- Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Making Peace by Bernie Glassman
- Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness by Marc Ian Barasch
- Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
- The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- The Wisdom of Forgiveness by Dalai Lama
- World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal by Joanna Macy
- James O’Dea’s recommended books on peacemaking
Organizations
People
Podcasts
Video Recordings
- U.S. Peace Index
- Tree of Life
- Social Healing & the Greater Self ~ Judith Thompson
- Charter for Compassion TED Talk ~ Karen Armstrong
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell (free online streaming of the documentary film)
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