Ahimsa Conversation # 92 George Lakey
Channel: Ahimsa Conversations
Date: 2021-12-03

Nonviolence is a breakthrough, a practical technique, that enables us to deal with conflicts in ways that are worthy of human beings. George Lakey, peace activist and scholar, says this on the basis of over half a century of sustained political action. Whether a struggle is violent or nonviolent there are no guarantees that you will win. The difference is that in a violent struggle both sides lose, because even the side that 'wins' has lost enormously in terms of lives, money and more. George is the founder of the Global Nonviolent Action Database at Swarthmore College (USA), which has become a rich storehouse of reports on nonviolence from across the world. He also describes what keeps him active and engaged at the age of 84 and why he was recently arrested at a protest march by grandparents demanding Climate Justice. 
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