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Building on the legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
Wednesday, 5 July 2017, 4:49 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title ‘Why War?’ See ‘Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature’. https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/04/why-war-einstein-and-freuds-little-known-correspondence-on-violence-peace-and-human-nature/ ... More >>
A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat Genocide
Thursday, 22 June 2017, 3:40 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
It is a tragic measure of the depravity of human existence that genocide is a continuing and prevalent manifestation of violence in the international system, despite the effort following World War II to abolish it through negotiation, and then adoption ... More >>
An Open Letter to People with 'Mental Health' Issues
Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 12:11 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
As 'mental health' issues gain more attention, sympathetic and otherwise, in a wide variety of contexts and countries around the world, the opportunity for inaccurate perceptions of what causes these issues, and how to treat them, are likewise expanded. More >>
Truth or Delusion? - By Robert J. Burrowes
Thursday, 18 May 2017, 3:31 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
One inevitable outcome of the phenomenal violence we all suffer as children is that most of us live in a state of delusion throughout our lives. This makes it extraordinarily difficult for accurate information, including vital information about the endangered ... More >>
International Collaboration to End Violence
Friday, 21 April 2017, 2:04 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a global network of individuals and organizations is committed to ending this violence in ... More >>
Why Do Some Men Rape?
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 11:21 am | Robert J. Burrowes
A recent report from Equality Now titled 'The World's Shame: The Global Rape Epidemic' offered a series of recommendations for strengthened laws to deter and punish sexual violence against women and girls. More >>
Resisting Donald Trump's Violence Strategically
Monday, 6 March 2017, 1:09 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
It is already clearly apparent, as many predicted, that Donald Trump's election as president of the United States would signal the start of what might be the final monumental assault on much of what is good in our world. Whatever our collective ... More >>
Nonviolent Action: Why and How it Works - Robert J. Burrowes
Thursday, 26 January 2017, 12:11 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Unfortunately, however, activists do not always understand why nonviolence is so powerful and they design 'direct actions' that are virtually powerless. More >>
Life on Earth is Dying - Robert J. Burrowes
Monday, 12 December 2016, 4:53 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
On the day that you read this article, 200 species of life on Earth (plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects, reptiles) will cease to exist. Tomorrow, another 200 species will vanish forever. More >>
Seeking the True Path - Robert J. Burrowes
Thursday, 24 November 2016, 4:31 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, ... More >>
A Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria - Robert J. Burrowes
Monday, 21 November 2016, 4:51 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent activists in Syria, which has been under martial law since 1963, started protesting against the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and demanding ... More >>
Punishment is Violent and Counterproductive
Friday, 28 October 2016, 3:56 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Punishment is a popular pastime for humans. Parents punish children. Teachers punish students. Employers punish workers. Courts punish lawbreakers. People punish each other. Governments punish 'enemies'. And, according to some, God punishes evildoers. More >>
A Nonviolent Strategy to End the Climate Catastrophe
Wednesday, 12 October 2016, 4:07 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see ' The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently ' – ... More >>
Gandhi: 'My life is my message' - Robert J. Burrowes
Friday, 30 September 2016, 11:57 am | Robert J. Burrowes
As most of the world ignores or hypocritically celebrates the 147th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the International Day of Nonviolence on 2 October, some of us will quietly acknowledge his life by continuing to build the world that he envisioned. ... More >>
Election or Revolution? Open Letter to the People of the US
Friday, 23 September 2016, 4:48 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Election or Revolution? An Open Letter to the People of the United States Robert J. Burrowes More >>
Nonviolent Resistance: Open Letter to the People of Brazil
Tuesday, 6 September 2016, 3:38 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
As I read of the latest coup in Brazil, once again removing a democratically elected leader from power, my anger surged. Not again! However, as I see and read about the ongoing massive protests, as well as calls by prominent community leaders to mobilize ... More >>
Nonviolent Revolt in the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 4:33 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
I sometimes wonder whether one of the ways in which 'Amercian exceptionalism' manifests is that many US scholars and others are unable to consider the contributions of those who are not from the USA. For example, I routinely read about studies of Martin Luther ... More >>
A Nonviolent Strategy to End War
Thursday, 11 August 2016, 3:03 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
There is a long history of anti-war and peace activism. Much of this activism has focused on ending a particular war. Some of this activism has been directed at ending a particular aspect of war, such as the use of a type of weapon. Some of it has aimed ... More >>
The Psychology of Ideology and Religion
Friday, 29 July 2016, 12:26 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
Two of the drivers of world affairs that manifest in the daily decisions that affect our lives are ideology and religion. More >>
The Delusion 'I Am Not Responsible'
Wednesday, 13 July 2016, 4:00 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
One of the many interesting details to be learned by understanding human psychology is how a person's unconscious fear works in a myriad of ways to make them believe that they bear no responsibility for a particular problem. More >>
