ABSTRACT
Throughout the last century we have witnessed increasing violence, domination, and exploitation, both among human beings and against the living earth. This chapter retrieves broader tradition of nonviolence. As Gregg put it in 1953:War is an inherent, inevitable and essential element of the civilization in which we live. Our aim can be nothing short of building an entirely new civilization in which domination and violence of all kinds play a small and steadily decreasing part. The power of nonviolence is the persuasive kind of power that comes into being when people exercise power-with-and-for each other without coercion or domination. In contrast, violence and domination are the types of power exercised in violent conflicts and unequal relationships of domination and subordination that are imposed and backed up by force, or the threat of force, and various types of legitimation.
