Michael N. Nagler
Michael N. Nagler is an American academic, nonviolence educator, mentor, meditator, and peace activist.
Life
Nagler is professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and taught upper-division courses on nonviolence, meditation and a seminar on the meaning of life. He is President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence and author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future, The Nonviolence Handbook, and The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature, and co-host of Nonviolence Radio and The Nonviolence Report. In 2007 Michael received the Jamnalal Bajaj international award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India. He has spoken for the UN, the US Institute of Peace, and many academic and public venues for over thirty years. He has lived at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation's ashram in Northern California since 1970.Awards
- Lifetime Achievement Award, Sonoma County Peace & Justice Center
- Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India
- Special Recognition Award, Season for Nonviolence
- Fourth Annual Hsuan Hua Memorial Lecture
- Outstanding Contribution to Peace Education
- American Book Award
- Christian Science Monitor essay contest winner
- American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
- MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Program
- MacArthur Foundation research fellowship
- Distinguished Lecturer, University of Presque Isle, ME
- Chico State University Annual Peace Lectureship
- Honorary award, Maharishi International University
- Loeb Classical Lecture
Books
- The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and Human Destiny in the 21st Century
- The Nonviolence Handbook: a Guide for Practical Action. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2014
- Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11 2006
- Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence. Chicago: Open Court 2005
- The Search for a Nonviolent Future: a Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our World. Makawao, Maui, HI: Inner Ocean Publishing. Original edition: Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2001
- The Steps of Nonviolence. Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1999
- The Upanishads. Petaluma, CA: Nilgiri Press 1987
- America Without Violence: Why Violence Persists and How You Can Stop It. Island Press, Covelo CA.
- “Unlocking a Nonviolent Future,” Matter of Spirit No. 105 1-3.
- “Roadmap:a Movement of Movements,” in Kosmos Journal for Fall,Winter 2014.
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/roadmap-a-movement-of-movements/ - “Gandhi and Global Warming,” in Tara Sethia and Anjana Narayan, Edd., The Living Gandhi: Lessons for our Times 228-240.
- “Gandhi Then and Now,” in Martin Keogh, Ed., Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring our Place in the Natural World. 62-72.
- “Connecting the Dots — Nonviolently,” in Rachel Macnair and Stephen Zunes, Edd., Consistently Opposing Killing pp. 173–178
- “The Road to Nonviolent Coexistence in Palestine/Israel,”, in Nonviolent Coexistence, Edd. Kumar Rupesinghe and Gayathri Fernando 2007, pp. 275–305
- “The Constructive Programme,” in Richard L. Johnson, Ed., Gandhi’s Experiments with Truth: Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi 2006, 253-259
- “Spirit Rising,” Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, 12-17
- “Spinning Wheel Birthday,” The Acorn xii:2 36-38. Reprinted as “What would the world be like if we followed Gandhi?”, in The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Nov. 27, 2004; German translation: in Telepolis,
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/html/result.xhtml?url=/tp/r4/artikel/17/17837/1.html&words=Nagler - “The Time for Nonviolence Has Come,” Yes! ; German translation: “Es ist Zeit für die Gewaltfreiheit,”
http://www.telepolis.de/deutsch/inhalt/co/18642/1.html - “Building a New Force,” Yes!, 2003
- “Compassion: the Radicalism of This Age,” Yes!
- “The Challenge of Nonviolence,” afterword to Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Gandhi 255-258
- “Out of Darkness, a Strange Hope,” Tikkun, January/February, 2002, 23-26
- “The Logic of Nonviolence,” Fellowship 65:7-8 10
- “What is Peace Culture,” in Ho-Won Jeong, Ed., A New Agenda for Peace Research 233-258
- “Unity in Diversity: From Paradox to Paradigm,” Ahimsa Voices 4:1 1-2
- “Is There a Tradition of Nonviolence in Islam?,” in J. Patout Burns, Ed., War and its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions 161-166
- “Forget the Past,” Fellowship 60:7/8 13
- Meditation for Peacemakers Metta Publication
- Peacemaking Through Nonviolence Metta.
- “Ideas of World Order and the Map of Peace,” in Thompson et al., Edd., Approaches to Peace: An Intellectual Map 371-392
- “Nonviolence,” in Lazlo and Yoo, Edd., World Encyclopedia of Peace,” Vol. I. 72-78
- “Comment” on R. J. Rummel, “Social Field Theory, Libertarianism, and Violence,” International Journal on World Peace 3:4 44-46
- “Redefining Peace,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 36-38. Reprinted: Donna U. Gregory, Ed., The Nuclear Predicament 330-334; Don Carlson and Craig Comstock, Edd., Citizen Summitry 238-245
- “Education as a Five-Letter Word.” Teachers College Record, 84:1, 102-114. Reprinted in Douglas Sloan, Ed., Education for Peace and Disarmament
- “Peace as a Paradigm Shift,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.. Translations: “Friede als Paradigmenwechsel,” in Rüdiger Lutz, Ed., Bewusstseins evolution ; “La Pace come cambiamento di paradigma,” University of Naples history of physics brochure, 1983
- “Berkeley: the Demonstrations,” Studies on the Left 5:1 55-62.
- “Penelope’s Male Hand: Gender and Violence in the Odyssey,” Colby Quarterly 29:3 241-257
- “Discourse and Conflict in Hesiod: Eris and the Erides,” Ramus 21:1 79-96
- “Odysseus: The Proem and the Problem,” Classical Antiquity 9:2 158-178
- “Ethical Anxiety and Artistic Inconsistency: The Case of Oral Epic,” in M. Griffith and D. J. Mastronarde, Cabinet of the Muses 225-239
- “The Traditional Phrase: Theory of Production,” in John Miles Foley, Ed., Oral Formulaic Theory: a Folklore Casebook 283-312
- “Toward a Semantics of Ancient Conflict: Eris in the Iliad,” Classical World 82:2 81-90
- “Priams Kiss: Toward a Peace Concept in Western Culture,” in Ulrich Goebel and Otto M. Nelson, Eds., War and Peace: Perspectives in the Nuclear Age 125-136
- “On Almost Killing Your Friends: Aspects of Violence in Early Epic and Ritual,” in John Miles Foley, Ed. Current Issues in Oral Literature Research: a Memorial for Milman Parry 395-433
- “Homeric Epic and the Social Order,” in K. Myrsiades, Ed., Approaches to Teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 57-62
- “Foreign Languages and World Community,” Foreign Language Newsletter 34:125 3
- “Beowulf in the Context of Myth,” J. Niles, Ed. in Old English Literature in Context 143-156
- “Entretiens avec Tirésias,” Classical World 74 89-108
- “Dread Goddess Endowed with Speech: A Study of Womankind in the Odyssey,” Archaeological News VI: 77-83
- “Towards a Generative View of the Oral Formula,” TAPhA 98 269-311
- “Oral Poetry and the Question of Originality in Literature,” Actes du Ve Congres de l'Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, ed. by N. Banasevic ; German tr. in: J. Latacz, Homer - Tradition und Neuerung
- “Dread Goddess Revisited,” in Seth L. Schein, Ed., Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays.