NonviolentEconomics.org
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The Institute works to show the connections between peace and localization--and between militarization and globalization As we work for a strong local economy in New Mexico, it is vital that we address the Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories. The life-affirming economy that the Institute envisions does not allow for money to be made from the production of weapons or from the planning or carrying out of any form of violence or warfare.
“Satyagraha [holding to truth] is a force that works silently and apparently slowly. In reality, there is no force in the world that is so direct and swift in the working.” Gandhi
The Institute promotes nonviolent means of creating societal transformation. It works to counter globalization through non-cooperation and civil disobedience, and builds alternative structures through “constructive programmes,” to use Gandhi’s terminology. There are ample nonviolent methods--indeed the scholar Gene Sharp has culled 198 nonviolent practices from history!
