PACS 164B: Introduction to Nonviolence - Spring 2007. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense.
"Kanyasulkam" by Gurajada Appa Rao
This is a play written in 1892 to fight against social evils such as bride's price (fathers selling their own daughters at their very young age to older men for money), child marriages, pathetic condition of young widows, ill treatment of women, and to encourage widow remarriages.
CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
Waking Up to a Nightmare: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood
Robert Gonzales
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Washington
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
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