**** Acknowledgements

**** Introduction

*** Chapter 1: A Common Language, A Common Goal

**** Lexicon

*** Chapter 2: Business As Usual

*** Chapter 3: Nihilism and Resistance

*** Chapter 4: Understanding the Other

**** Critiques of nonviolence

**** Privilege

**** State Complicity

**** Historical Narratives

**** Critiques of Violence

**** Pacifism and Active Nonviolence

**** Ends vs. Means

**** Pandora’s Box

*** Chapter 5: A Peoples History of Violence

*** Chapter 6: Warriors of Peace

**** Gandhi

**** Mandela

**** King

**** The Narrative

*** Chapter 7: The Path

**** Stage One: Colonization

**** Stage Two: Decolonization

**** Stage Three: Active Nonviolence

**** The Fourth Stage: Total Liberation

**** The Traps

**** The Fearful Warrior

**** The Lackey

**** The Privileged Pacifist

*** Chapter 8: Case Studies

**** Stage One Case Study: The Puerto Rican Independence Movement

**** Stage Two Case Study: The Paris Commune

**** Stage Three Case Study: The Zapatistas

*** Chapter 9: My Journey

*** Chapter 10: Elements of Resistance