Ramin Jahanbegloo is Professor and Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is a member of the advisory board of PEN Canada and the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009), and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of a peace movement called Students for Peace, which has active members in India, Canada and Colombia. His latest book is The Disobedient Indian: Towards a Gandhian Philosophy of Dissent (2018).

• PrefaceIntroduction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come1. The Limits of Violence2. An Obligation to Dissent and to Disobey: Henry David Thoreau and After3. Bringing Ethics into Politics: The Gandhian Satyagraha4. The Strength of Love: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cosmic Companionship5. Reconciliation and Negotiation: Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel6. The Seeds of Compassion: Mother Teresa and Dalai LamaConclusion: Limits of NonviolenceNotesBibliographyIndex

In this important book, Jahanbegloo describes seven major recent practitioners of nonviolent resistance. As a practitioner himself, he survived solitary confinement. But here he narrates the role within resistance of love, reconciliation and compassion. Although nonviolence cannot be total, he argues that the human capacity for it is unlimited.