Machine generated contents note: What is nonviolence? -- Further reading -- 1.Nonviolence in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism -- Nonviolence in Hinduism -- Nonviolence in Jainism -- Nonviolence in Buddhism -- Further reading -- 2.Christianity and Nonviolence -- The roots of nonviolence in Jesus Christ -- Nonviolence in the Epistles of St Paul -- Franciscan nonviolence -- Christian nonviolence in the North American context -- A new tradition: nonviolence in the work of Thomas Merton -- Further reading -- 3.Islam and Nonviolence -- The roots of nonviolence in the Qur'an -- Nonviolence in the contemporary Islamic context: the case of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad -- Islam, nonviolence and the state -- Further reading -- 4.Philosophical Foundations of Nonviolence -- Socratic nonviolence -- The transcendentalist nonviolence of H. D. Thoreau -- Leo Tolstoy and nonviolence -- Further reading -- 5.Gandhi and Nonviolence -- Gandhi's conception of nonviolence --

Contents note continued: Nonviolence in the Hind Swaraj -- Further reading -- 6.Pragmatic Nonviolence -- Gene Sharp and pragmatic nonviolence -- Pragmatic nonviolence in practice -- Sharp's four mechanisms of change -- Necessary preconditions to change -- Further reading -- 7.Critiques of Nonviolence -- The role of violence in Marxism -- Violence in anarchism -- The role of violence in the work of Georges Sorel -- The role of violence in the work of Frantz Fanon -- The role of violence in the work of Slavoj Zizek -- Further reading -- 8.Nonviolence in the Twentieth Century -- Martin Luther King -- Desmond Tutu -- Mother Teresa -- The Dalai Lama -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Further reading -- 9.Nonviolence in the Twenty-First Century -- The Green Movement in Iran -- Otpor: the fall of Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic -- The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia -- The revolution in Egypt -- Further reading.