The Metta Center – Jordan Pearlstein

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Making a Difference: The Nonviolent Life

24 Aug 2007 in Events

Making a Difference: The Nonviolent Life
Presented by
Richard Deats
Nov. 2-4, 2007
Participants will hear stories and struggles of these past decades and how Richard Deats built a peace vocation across racial, international and religious lines. He will share his understanding and experiences of active nonviolence and how it continues to develop, even alongside the [...]

Educators for Nonviolence Holds Successful Second Annual Teachers’ Conference

31 Jul 2007 in Events

Nearly 100 people came out for the second annual Educators for Nonviolence (EFNV) Teachers’ Conference held at the U.C. Berkeley campus on July 20th and 21st. The conference included such notable speakers as Dr. Michael Nagler of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, Azim Khamisa of the Tariq Khamisa Foundation, Dr. Joseph Marshall of the [...]

Educators for Nonviolence Summer Teachers’ Conference!

23 May 2007 in Events

Educators for Nonviolence, a joint project of the Metta Center and the Dalai Lama Foundation, will host its second annual summer teachers’ conference:
“Building a Culture of Nonviolence”
July 20th (7:00pm-9:30pm) and July 21st (8:00am-6:00pm)
at the University of California, Berkeley
Join teachers and educators from across the country to learn how you can manage a nonviolent classroom [...]

Total Security

13 Mar 2007 in Concepts&Definitions

Also called “human security”: the concept that the true security of a state (or person, or group) implies much more than freedom from (fear of) attack. As Palestinian Hannan Ashrawi has pointed out, “…they [the Israeli govt.] define security as only military. We define security as human security – not just personal, but [...]

Common Security

13 Mar 2007 in Concepts&Definitions

The concept, very consistent with the nonviolent wordlview, that a state, or for that matter any person or group, cannot be secure without the other states or individuals in question enjoying security at the same time. In the common security viewpoint, an opponent who is unable to attack you may make you somewhat secure, but [...]

Civilization consists not in the multiplication, but in the voluntary restriction, of wants. The satisfaction of one's physical needs, even the intellectual needs, must meet at a point a dead stop, before it degenerates into voluptuousness.

-Mahatma Gandhi