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Blog: Confessions of a Recovering Neocolonialist on Martin Luther King Day

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Posted January 17th, 2011 by HowMatters

Harare, 2002. The word came. Cash is in the banks. The three colleagues I was standing near at the time and I quickly jumped in the car to get downtown to Standard Chartered as soon as possible.

It was my first “real job” in the development sector after graduate school. I knew enough to know how little I knew, and little else.

Blog: Nonviolent Struggle & Religious Pacifism: Not Wed Together

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Posted November 9th, 2009 by Philippe Duhamel

MLK & Gandhi“An apostle of nonviolence.” “Preaching nonviolence”. We hear these
expressions so often, we don’t question them. But there is a crucial
difference between soporific preachifying and nonviolent action. So
let's clear this up.

Blog: WHY NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE? (2)

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Posted October 6th, 2009 by Philippe Duhamel
Vehicle of Nonviolent ActionThe choice of nonviolent action is sometimes ridiculed, often misunderstood, always in need of explanation. Second in our popularization series on the core dynamics of nonviolent action, we offer a basic definition of nonviolent struggle. We are in the process of putting together a resource that you and anybody will be able to use, to share with others a basic understanding of what non-military means of fighting can offer this world in its thirst for justice and the full enjoyment of comprehensive human rights. You can help this project.