Presents nineteenth-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy's thoughts on how to prevent conflicts within and among nations through a recognition of love as the guiding law of life.
Presents over twenty chronologically arranged pacifist writings by such figures as Buddha, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Arundhati Roy.
In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Mennonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason, as they argue about the war.
A collection of twenty-three essays that provides varying perspectives on issues related to pacifism, discussing the relationship between Christianity and pacifism, other religious views of pacifism, secular pacifist traditions, and links between pacifism and political and social issues.
Fifteen-year-old Noah Garrett, sent to live with his uncle in Camp Hale, Colorado, following the death of his parents in 1944, finds himself struggling between his upbringing as a pacifist, and life on a military base in the middle of World War II.