“On 10 November 1998, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the period 2001-2010 the International Decade for a Culture of Non-Violence and Peace for the Children of the World”. In its reasoning, it considered that “a culture of non-violence and peace facilitates respect for the life and dignity of every human being without prejudice or discrimination of any kind.” For defenders of peace and human dignity, this declaration was the first recognition by governments and states, which have made violence a priori in their constitutions and their relations with their societies and the world, that the future of childhood, that is, tomorrow, requires a radical change in their view of ideological, political and societal violence, in order for the cry of 1945: Never again to have meaning and structure.
The desired decade began with the catastrophe of September 11, 2001, the globalization of the state of emergency and the declaration of war, with or without the blessing of the Security Council. The start of the twenty-first century looked bleak.
Through words, concepts, personalities and facts, Haytham Manna tries to deconstruct the logic of resorting to violence or its “legitimacy” nationally and internationally, and shed light on important intellectual and militant beacons that have made the subject of non-violence not only a basic moral and behavioral thesis for the future of people, but also the first choice for their salvation.
Haytham Manna is an intellectual and activist who studied medicine, anthropology and international law in Syria and France. One of the founders of the Arab Committee for Human Rights. He wrote on human rights, democracy, women’s rights, Islam and Enlightenment issues. He has published about sixty books and works in Arabic, English and French, most notably the encyclopedia “Reflection on Human Rights”, “The Future of Human Rights”, “Civil Resistance” and “Building Citizenship”, headed by the Scandinavian Institute for Human Rights / Haytham Manna Foundation.
Hachette Antoine 2023
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Introduction
The importance of the philosophy of nonviolence in human societies, some of its symbols, experiences and its current civil and political presence,
(1939-2021)
His life, his struggles and his philosophy of nonviolence
Rights to civil resistance
Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968)
Resistance for Civil Rights
Defender of human rights and peace
Non-violence and national liberation
In the means of producing societal and ideological violence
On the means of production of violence
In concept and practice
Universality of civil resistance
Nonviolence in the Arab world
Anti-power and peace of mind
Counter-power and peace of the soul
1474-1566
Human beings are born free and equal
People are born free and equal
War, or the weapon of mass destruction
War crimes
War is a crime in itself
1950-2020
The Unknown Soldier of Non-Violence in the Arabian Peninsula
The unknown soldier of nonviolence in Arabia
1914-1996
On the prohibition of war
Prohibition of war
In the safety of the soul and the body
About physical and mental integrity
Place of civil resistance
1918-2013
From the war of liberation to non-violent liberation
From the war of liberation, from apartheid to non-violence, a means of salvation from apartheid
Inquisition
In the means of producing societal and ideological violence
On the means of production of violence
Prophet of non-violence
The prophet of non-violence
1890-1988
Gandhi of Islam in India
1928-2018
Was Jane Sharpe a non-violence Machiavelli?
306-373
The message of Christ without original sin
Carl von Clausewitz
1780-1831
Machiavelli of war
Violence: A Multidisciplinary Approach
The construction of the tolerant personality
Treasures of Wisdom
