Image: Martin Luther King’s mentor, Bayard Rustin, in India with Gandhi’s friend and India’s first prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Organizations

Explore these organizations for nonviolent training opportunities, events, mobilizations, & resource collections.

• The Albert Einstein Institution: Advancing Freedom with Nonviolent Action.
• Campaign Nonviolence.
• East Point Peace Academy.
• Fellowship of Reconciliation.
• Global Nonviolent Action Database.
• International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
• Kingian Nonviolence Network.
• Nonviolent Global Liberation.
• The Metta Center for Nonviolence.
• Waging Nonviolence.

Books About Nonviolent Resistance

Peter Ackerman & Chris Kruegler: Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century.

Peter Ackerman & Jack DuVall: A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict.

Beacon Press Anthology: The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace.

Judith Butler: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind.

Erica Chenoweth: Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Erica Chenoweth & Maria Stephan:

• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.
• The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail?

Ira Chernus: American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea.

Mark Engler & Paul Engler: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century.

Barbara Epstein: Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mohandas Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha).

Kazu Haga: Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.

Martin Luther King: Browse the literature by and about King here.

George Lakey: How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning.

James M. Lawson Jr:

• Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom.
• Nonviolence and Social Movements: The Teachings of Rev. James M. Lawson Jr.

Srdja Popovic: Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.

Pace e Bene Press: Explore collection of books and manuals on nonviolence here.

Jonathan Schell: The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People.

Gene Sharp:

• Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential.
• How Nonviolent Struggle Works.
• The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1: Power and Struggle.
• Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action.
• Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 3: Dynamics of Nonviolent Action.

Anthony C. Siracusa: Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle.