A Starter List of Some Key Authors, Roughly in Chronological Order
Jain Texts (Sacred Texts)
Kant – Perpetual Peace
Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God is Within
Gandhi – Satyagraha in South Africa / Hind Swaraj
Addams – Newer Ideals of Peace
Peirce – Evolutionary Love
James – Moral Equivalent of War
Buber – I and Thou
Leopold – Sand County Almanac
Gregg – The Power of Nonviolence
Bondurant – Conquest of Violence
Dorothy Day
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thich Nhat Hanh – Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings
Cesar Chavez
Perez Esquivel – Christ in a Pancho
Johan Galtung
Gene Sharp
Václav Havel
Gloria Anzaldua
Duane Cady
Steven Pinker – Better Angels of our Nature
Chenoweth and Stephan – Why Civil Resistance Works
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