H: Bibliographies, Websites and Library Resources

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People Power and Protest since 1945: a bibliography of nonviolent action
compiled by April Carter, Howard Clark and Michael Randle

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Section H: Bibliographies, Websites and Library Resources

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H. Bibliographies, Websites and Library Resources

a. Bibliographies

908. Carter, April, Mahatma Gandhi: A Selected Bibliography, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 169.  

Includes a summary biography, pp. 1-28 and detailed chronology. Special emphasis on links to campaigning groups in west and some coverage of literature on nonviolent theory. 472 items.  

909. Carter, April, David Hoggett and Adam Roberts, Nonviolent Action: A Selected Bibliography, London, Housmans, 1970 and Haverford Penn, Center for Nonviolent Conflict Resolution 1970, pp. 84. Revised and enlarged edition of 1966 Non-Violent Action: A Selected Bibliography, pp. 48.  

Covers theory of nonviolent action, including classic works, discussion of methods and case studies, plus sections on organizing for nonviolent action, civilian defence, and nonviolent social order.  

910. Gandhi: A Bibliography, A holdings list of books and journals by and about Mohandas K. Gandhi in the Commonweal Collection, University of Bradford, Commonweal Collection and Gandhi Foundation, 1995, pp. 50.  

Includes all aspects of Gandhi’s life and thought – for example his constructive programme and views on economics, education, Indian politics and religion – as well as satyagraha.  

911. Indian Council of Social Science Research, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: A
Bibliography, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1974, pp. 379. Introduced by R.R., Diwakar. Covers books in English up to 1972, 1095 items.  

912. McCarthy, Ronald M. and Gene Sharp, Nonviolent Action: A Research Guide, New York, Garland, 1997, pp. 720 (hardback). An Albert Einstein Institution publication.

An exhaustive, annotated, bibliography, very strong on earlier history of nonviolent action, but also including many recent nonviolent campaigns up to the mid-1990s. Part I covers cases of nonviolent struggle, Part II the methods and dynamics of nonviolent action and theories of conflict, power and violence. NB the index is seriously flawed (a correct version is available on the Albert Einstein Institution website), but it is possible to trace campaigns through the List of Contents.  

913. Pandiri, Ananda M., A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 1
Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 424. Foreword by Dennis Dalton.  

This volume covers biographies, works by Gandhi and bibliographical sources in English.  

914. Randle, Michael and Gene Sharp, ‘Annotated Bibliography on Training for Non-Violent Action and Civilian-Based Defence’, UNESCO Yearbook on Peace and Conflict Studies 1981, Westport CT, Greenwood Press and Paris, UNESCO, 1981, pp. 63-180.  

Includes an introductory essay by Michael Randle on training and another by Gene Sharp on civilian-based defence.  

b. Websites

Information about almost every issue is now available on the Web, and most campaigning groups and research centres now have their own web page which can be found via Google or another search engine. This section mentions some important sites that are likely to be maintained. It does not include web addresses mentioned elsewhere in the bibliography, and for web sites on preparation for nonviolent action, readers are referred to Section I.

The Albert Einstein Institution: http://www.aeinstein.org  

This institution founded by Gene Sharp provides extensive well researched information on nonviolent action around the world.  

Center for Global Nonviolence, Hawaii, has a web page that includes on-line publications such as Islam and Nonviolence, and Buddhism and Nonviolence. http://
www.globalnonviolence.org  

European Social Forum: http://www.fse-esf.org
This is the European branch of the World Social Forum: http://forumsocialmundial.org.br
 

The WSF since 2001 and the ESF since 2002 have aimed to be an open meeting place for those opposed to neoliberalism.  

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict: http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org website includes information on resources: books, articles, TV documentaries, related organizations, etc.  

The Nonviolence Web: http://www.nonviolence.org

Founded by Martin Kelley in 1995. Includes introductory material on nonviolence, direct action, news on peace movement and anti-war activities, and an archives section.  

Peacemakers Trust: http://www.peacemakers.ca  

Includes materials on conflict, conflict resolution, reconciliation, and nonviolent direct action. Selected bibliography on nonviolence and nonviolent direct action available.  

Peace News: http://www.peacenews.info

Back copies are becoming available on the web. Since the 1950s Peace News has been particularly concerned to cover nonviolent direct action and has run (usually brief) reports on actions round the world (but especially in Britain). Whilst its primary focus is on opposing war and militarism, the paper has covered green, feminist, human rights and many other forms of radical protest. At the time this bibliography went to press, the Peace News Archives on line were available from December 1994 on, but earlier issues will eventually be accessible.

Program on Nonviolent Sanctions, http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/ponsacs Navigate via ‘seminars’ to ‘Transforming Struggle’ for material based on seminars at Harvard in 1992.  

Also available in printed form as: Transforming Struggle: Strategy and the Global Experience of Nonviolent Direct Action, Cambridge MA, Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1992 (but not easily found in British libraries).  

The War Resisters’ International web page http://www.wri-irg.org includes a number of articles on nonviolent action under ‘programme/nonviolence’ including all the texts in Brian Martin and others, Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence, Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore (eds) (A.1.) and from WRI’s 2001 study conference in Orissa, ‘Nonviolence and Social Empowerment’, see: Ney, Chris (ed.), Nonviolence and Social Empowerment (WRI 2001-2005). Available at: http://www.wri-irg.org/nonviolence/nvse-index.html  

Nonviolent Tools and Philosophy is a distance learning course directed by Jorgen Johansen in the context of the Transcend Peace University: http://www.transcend.org/tpu

Some individual nonviolent researchers have websites listing all their relevant publications. See for example:

Brian Martin, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/peace.html

Gene Sharp website: http://www.genesharp.com/ Due to come into operation circa 2006. Will house electronic copies of most of Sharp’s publications as well as some work by others on nonviolent action. 

c. MA and PhD Theses

There are unpublished theses on Gandhi, nonviolence or specific campaigns, which may be a useful source for those doing detailed research and with access to university libraries. They can be accessed at the library of the university concerned or through Inter-University library loan. Registers of PhD theses are available and are now on the internet. An illustrative selection of theses from the Bradford School of Peace Studies is listed below.  

Garcia-Duran, Mauricio, To What Extent is There a Peace Movement in Colombia? An Assessment of the Country’s Peace Mobilization 1978-2003, PhD Thesis  

Overy, Bob, Gandhi as a Political Organiser: An Analysis of Local and National Campaigns in India 1915-1922, PhD Thesis, pp. 373.  

MA Dissertations 

Baird, Adam D.S., Peace Activism and Nonviolence: Dilemmas for Colombian Civil Society Organisations, 2004, pp. 102.  

Garavaglia, Paola, The Potential Relevance of Non-violence Training Towards Empowerment, 2000, pp. 69.  

Watson, John Francis, The Role of Violence and Nonviolence in the Liberation of South Africa, 1996, pp. 150.  

(Some Bradford theses on the peace movement have also been cited in relevant sections.)

A few additional relevant PhD theses from other universities are:  

Holzer, Boris, Transnational Subpolitics and Corporate Discourse. A Study of Environmental Protest and the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, University of London, 2001.  

Mills, A.J., Workers Occupations, 1971-1975: A Socio-historical analysis of the development and spread of sit-ins, work-ins and worker co-operatives in Britain, University of Durham, 1982. 

Wills, John, The Diablo Canyon, California: An Environmental History, University of Bristol, 2000, on nuclear protest and the Sierra Club.
 

d. Library Sources and Archives

i. Britain

The Commonweal Collection, J.B. Priestley Library, University of Bradford has focused on Gandhi and Gandhianism, nonviolence, peace studies and social movements of the past 50 years. It has 11,000 books and a valuable collection of relevant periodicals, 150 current, as well as a growing number of archives.  

The Fraser Nuclear Disarmament Collection, also at the J.B. Priestley Library, University of Bradford, has archives from the campaigns of 1980s.  

The London School of Economics holds some peace movement archives.  

The Imperial War Museum has for some time been collecting materials on peace campaigns and conscientious objection, including taped interviews with activists.  

ii. Netherlands

The International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, has an extensive archive on social activism, including the archive of the War Resisters’ International.

iii. USA

The Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford, California) is one of the major repositories for relevant archives, including materials on the European nuclear disarmament campaigns of the 1980s.  

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) keeps the archives of many American peace organizations and will become the repository of Gene Sharp’s papers on nonviolent action. 


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