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Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, Zimbabwe: OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops, Tablets, WUaS OLPC wiki page, Nonharming, Caring - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/11/mana-pools-national-park-sapi-and.html

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Chenoweth, Erica and Maria J. Stephan. 2011. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Gandhi, M. K. 2001. Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha). Dover Publications.

Hand, Judith. 2006. A Future Without War: The Strategy of a Warfare Transition. San Diego, CA: Questpath Publishing.

Kurlansky, Mark, and Dalai Lama (foreward). Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Modern Library.

McReynolds, David. 1999. The Philosophy of Nonviolence. War Resisters' League.

Roberts, Adam, and Timothy Garton Ash, (eds). 2009. Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present. Oxofrd, US: Oxford University Press.

Schell, Jonathan. 2003. The Unconquerable World. Metropolitan Books.

Schock, Kurt. 2005. Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies. University of Minnesota Press.

Sharp, Gene. 1973. Politics of Nonviolent Action (Parts 1 - 3). The ACTivist Magazine. June. Sargent (Porter).

Wink, Walter. 2001. Jesus and Nonviolence - A Third Way. Fortress Press.

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York, Steve (Dir.). 1999. A Force More Powerful. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7qhGQ0cX1o). PBS.

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Cowell, Alan, Laura Kasinof and Adam Nossiter. 2011. Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Three Activist Women. (Liberian Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, Tawakul Karman of Yemen). October 7. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Dear, Rev. John. 2012. Turning Towards Nonviolence and Away from 'Dark Knights'. July 23. Common Dreams.

Fish, George. 2011. Slandering Nonviolence. September 15. New York, NY: New Politics.

Fisher, Max. 2012. A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths - In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year. July 23. theatlantic.com.

King Jr., Martin Luther. 1963. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Philadelphia, PA: africa.upenn.edu

King, Michael. 2003. The Penguin History of New Zealand. (Pp 219–20, 222, 247–8, & 386).

Nonviolent resistance. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance

Oppenheimer, Martin. 2012. Mobs, Vigilantes, Cops, and Feds: The Repression of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Summer. New York, NY: New Politics.

Palfrey, John. 2012. How To Talk To Kids About Extreme Violence. December 17. Andover, MA: radioboston.wbur.org.

Palfrey, M.D., Judith S. and Sean Palfrey, M.D. 2012. Preventing Gun Deaths in Children. December 28. Boston, MA: The New England Journal of Medicine.

Thurman, Robert. 2011. Updated: Video from Occupy Wall Street: Robert Thurman’s “Cool Heroes”; Public “Being ‘Present’ meditations planned. Shambhalasun.com.

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