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The Joy of Community

By Context Institute — 1991

According to psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck, for any group to achieve community in the truest sense, it must undertake a journey that involves four stages: "pseudocommunity," where niceness reigns; "chaos," when the emotional skeletons crawl out of the closet; "emptiness," a time of quiet and transition; and finally, true community, marked both by deep honesty and deep caring. - Alan AtKisson

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Creating the Culture of Peace: A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation

The culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence, development and progress. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the norm-setting, forward-looking “Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace”.

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Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Daisaku Ikeda
2020
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Public Power in the Age of Empire

An inspiring exegesis on the roles of democracy and activism in a violent times.

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Arundhati Roy
2004
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Critical Edition

In the mid-1920s, prompted by a “small, still voice” that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, Mohandas K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography.

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Mohandas K. Gandhi
2018
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Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society

In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
2008
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Community Transformation and Healing