Perspectives on Nonviolence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Role of Organized Nonviolence in Achieving Stable Peace

      • Kenneth E. Boulding

      Pages 3-13

3. Psychological and Sociological Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Explorations in the Nonviolent Personality

      • V. K. Kool, Corey L. M. Keyes

      Pages 17-38

   3. T.A.T. Responses of Some Violent Individuals

      • H. S. Asthana

      Pages 39-53

   4. Attribution of Cause, Responsibility and Blame Among Violent and Nonviolent Individuals

      • Steve R. Baumgardner

      Pages 54-64

   5. Nonviolence, Attribution of Intentionality and Dogmatism

      • Georgina Hammock, David Hanson

      Pages 65-71

   6. Power, Personality, and the Dialectics of Nonviolence

      • Leon Rappoport

      Pages 72-79

   7. Mohandas K. Gandhi: Nonviolence, Principles, and Chamber-Pots

      • Robert W. Howard

      Pages 80-85

   8. Dimensions of Moral Development Among Nonviolent Individuals

      • Allen H. Keniston

      Pages 86-89

   9. Psychology Ought to Honor the Paradoxical: The Power of Weakness

      • George Kunz

      Pages 90-96

   10. Toward a Methodology for Nonviolence

       • George I. Brown

       Pages 97-103

   11. The Nuclear Age Persona: From Coping to Nonviolent Change

       • M. Eileen Buban, Stephen C. McConnell, Barry Duncan

       Pages 104-108

   12. Evaluation Research on Nonviolent Action

       • Neil H. Katz

       Pages 109-117

   13. “Killing the Messenger”: Public Perceptions of Nonviolent Protest

       • Amy S. Hubbard

       Pages 118-127

4. Philosophical Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Nonviolence as New Science

      • Michael N. Nagler

      Pages 131-139

   3. Seven Forms of Nonviolence for Peace Research: A Conceptual Framework

      • Theodore Herman

      Pages 140-149

   4. The Limits of Nonviolence

      • Chin-Tai Kim

      Pages 150-160

Paddock has referred to societies as "anti-violent" that Inhibit the expressIon of aggresSion. In his book Violence and Aggression, KE. Moyer nas made a brief but interesting comparison of several violent and nonviolent cultures. Whereas studies of violence have ranged from genetic, cultural to Situation effects, and have been pursued through empirical and nonempirical methods over the past several decades, nonviolence did not become a favorite area of study among social scientists. Although it is impossible to make a complete list of the various reasons for the lack of interest among social scientists on this subject, it is generally believed that a lack of understanding of the concept and a failure to either develop or apply adequate methods are to Olame. Therefore we are not surprized that nonviolence has remained, by and large, a favorite topic among religious thinkers and leaders only. A good example of how people have difficulty understanding the concept of nonviolence came to me when I delivered a lecture to a group of political science students several years ago. I experienced similar problems when I spoke to the history and political science professors. Subsequent dialogues with faculty members in other disciplines convinced me that our perspectives on nonVIolence were not commonly clear to all of us. or course, most of us did agree on one thing--that Is, there Is a distinct difference separating Eastern from Western views of nonviolence.

• Aggression
• Gewalt
• Gewaltlosigkeit
• perception
• personality
• psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, USA

  V. K. Kool

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