By the author of the American Book Award-winning "Search for a Nonviolent Future," this title advocates nonviolence as the most effective approach to bringing about social change, not simply the most ethical.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• ONE An Introduction to Nonviolence
• Fight, Flight, and the Third Way
• The Uses of Nonviolence
• Satyagraha: A New Term for an Eternal Principle
• TWO Right Intention: Cultivating a Nonviolent Soul
• The Person Is Not the Problem
• Five Basic Training Practices for Nonviolent Living
• THREE Right Means: Knowing Where We Stand
• How Much Nonviolence Is Enough?
• When Nothing Else Will Work
• FOUR Putting Nonviolent Energy to Work
• Proportionality
• The Art of Compromise
• What Do We Really Want?
• Building it Right: The Secret of Constructive Program
• FIVE Peering Into the Heart of Satyagraha
• Seeing the Real Results
• Coping with Success
• The Importance (or Not) of Numbers
• How Useful Are Symbols?
• Can Nonviolence Be Misused?
• The Role of Suffering in Satyagraha
• Fasting in Satyagraha
• Taking Control
• SIX What Have We Learned?
• A Way of Being
• A Movement Oversweeping the World
• Highlights: A Handy Reference
• Acknowledgments
• For Further Reading and Viewing
• About the Author
• About Metta