Gandhi's Way

Gandhi’s Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict—-at home or in business; in local national or international arenas. This invaluable handbook updated with a new preface and a new case study on terrorism in Northern Ireland sets out Gandhi’s basic methods and illustrates them with practical examples. Juergensmeyer shows how parties at odds can rise above a narrow view of self-interest to find resolutions that are satisfying and beneficial to all involved. He then pits Gandhi’s ideas against those of other great social thinkers in a series of imaginary debates that challenge and clarify Gandhi’s thinking on issues of violence anger and love. He also provides a Gandhian critique of Gandhi himself and offers viable solutions to some of the gaps in Gandhian theory.

Gandhi’s Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution was previously published as Fighting with Gandhi and Fighting Fair.

Preface to the 2005 Edition

SECTION I. THE GANDHIAN FIGHT
1. Fighting a Gandhian Fight
2. Why Fight at All?
3. How Do You Know When You're Right?
4. Violence: The Breakwoen of a Fight
5. What to Do with a Recalcitrant Opponent
6. The Weapon: The Goal Itself
7. The Power of Noncooperation
8. Fighting a Very Big Fight
9. How Do You Know When You've Won?
10. Some Basic Rules

SECTION II. CASE STUDIES
Looking At Cases
Case #1: A Family Feud
Case #2: The Endangered Employees
Case #3: A Lonely Decision
Case #4: A Peaceful End to Irish Terrorism
Case #5: A Tragic Resistance

SECTION III. SOME SMALL QUARRELS
Conversations in the Mind
Issue #1: Can Violence Ever Be Justified?—Gandhi v. Marx
Issue #2: Can Anger Be True?—Gandhi v. Freud
Issue #3: Is a Force of Love Realistic?—Gandhi v. Niebuhr
Issue #4: Was Gandhi Always a Gandhian?—Mohandas v. the Mahatma

Notes
Index