On Violence

We must pursue policies that transform this nation from being the “greatest purveyor of violence” – as Martin Luther King, Jr. once called the United States – to being the greatest purveyor of nonviolence, interrelatedness and peace. That effort requires us to address the four central types of violence that undergird many of our national policies and priorities and that are too often waged against the most vulnerable, both here and abroad: physical, political, legal, and economic.

I. PHYSICAL

II. POLITICAL

III. LEGAL

IV. ECONOMIC

Here’s a PDF version: Toward a Nonviolent Democracy