Michael N. Nagler
Michael N. Nagler (born January 20, 1937) is an American academic, nonviolence educator, mentor, meditator, and peace activist. Life. Nagler is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and taught upper-division courses on nonviolence, meditation and a seminar on the meaning of life. Nagler also participated in the Free Speech Movement. He is President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence and author of "The Search for a Nonviolent Future", "The Nonviolence Handbook," and "The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature