Part I. Proving it works: from early beginnings to stunning success

Early developments

Gandhi: defeating the British Empire

Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhian nonviolence: the battle against American racism

Nonviolent intervention in guerrilla warfare

Wheelchairs versus tanks

Part II. Defeating the Soviet Empire

Solidarity: a trade union and the Pope versus Communist dictators

The revolution of the candles: the nonviolent overthrow of East German Communists

Part III. Recent victories of a growing movement

"Gather the women to pray for peace": Liberian women overthrow a dictator

Nonviolence in the Arab Spring

Intervening, accompanying, and reporting: the growth of peacemaker teams

Part IV. The time to act

Truly testing the possibilities of nonviolent action: for the first time in Christian history

The moral equivalent of war.