The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Foreword xv
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART ONE. A Deeper Look
7. CHAPTER 1. Terror and Terrorism
8. Civilian casualties: The New Frontline 9
9. A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War 15
10. Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on Protection Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 16
11. U.S. Nuclear Terrorism 19
12. The Truth of War 26
13. Afternoon 27
14. A World Free of Nuclear Weapons 28
15. The First Car Bomb 32
16. Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims 34
17. Casida of the Lament 37
18. An Injured Child 38
19. Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention 43
20. Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought 43
21. The American Psyche after September 11 46
22. On Religion and Terrorism 50
23. The Spiritual Source of Islam 51
24. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours 53
25. Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism 58
26. Lynched for No Offense 61
27. Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005; The Fiqh Council of North America 61
28. Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 63
29. I Have Come to This Earth 65
30. CHAPTER 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory
31. The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery 69
32. Writings for a Liberation Psychology 76
33. Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11 76
34. Be Ahead of All Parting 80
35. The Deeper Wound 81
36. The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda 83
37. Just One Story 83
38. Unfolding 85
39. The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons 86
40. The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade 87
41. Under Bombardment in Beirut 87
42. I Just Missed the Bus and I’ll Be Late for Work 91
43. Interrupted Subjects 92
44. Not a Pass 98
45. Peace 98
46. Shantideva’s Prayer: Buddhist Traditional Prayer (translated by the Dalai Lama) 100
47. We Are Fields before Each Other 101
48. CHAPTER 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth
49. How to Cure a Fanatic 104
50. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness 110
51. A Ritual to Read to Each Other 111
52. Terror Comes Full Circle 112
53. He Would Need Some Shoes 117
54. Thoughts for the Times on War and Death 118
55. Our Culture’s Divided Soul 119
56. The Denial of Death 125
57. The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction 125
58. Speech Opposing the Post–9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 130
59. Against Certainty 132
60. Another Kind of Heroism 133
61. On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom 135
62. PART TWO. Paths to Transformation0
63. CHAPTER 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair
64. Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat 143
65. An Interview by David Montenegro 149
66. In a Dark Time 150
67. Thoughts in the Presence of Fear 151
68. The Testing-Tree 155
69. Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of The American Soul 155
70. A Terrible Love of War 161
71. Morphologies of Silence 162
72. overcoming cruelty 167
73. Eulogy for The Martyred Children 171
74. CHAPTER 5. Truth Telling and Justice
75. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Adopted and proclaimed December 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the United Nations, resolution 217 A (III) 175
76. Naming the Perpetrator 180
77. There Was no Farewell 187
78. Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness 188
79. Half-life of a Despot 192
80. Moby Dick 194
81. Crises of the Republic 194
82. A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) 194
83. The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) 195
84. Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers 203
85. Rape as a War Crime 203
86. The Key to My Neighbor’s House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda 207
87. Facing into Truth: The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, XXV Presiding Bishop and Primate, the Episcopal Church, USA 208
88. Zoroastrian Prayer 212
89. CHAPTER 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence
90. Terror, Domination, and Partnership 215
91. The Crowned Cannibals 222
92. The Mind as Erotic Weapon 223
93. The Birth of Plea sure 229
94. A Woman’s Side of the Story 229
95. Please Listen to the Women of Iraq 236
96. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan 237
97. Behind Bars 238
98. Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence 239
99. She Cannot Be Lost to Me 239
100. Joining Prayers 245
101. Serenity 246
102. Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize 247
103. Prayer of The Virgin of Guadalupe 251
104. CHAPTER 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace
105. Compassion as the pillar of World Peace: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama 254
106. From Them to Us 257
107. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation 266
108. Falling Bodies 267
109. Forgive Us 269
110. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? 270
111. Sustainability, Security, and Peace 270
112. Wilenska 277
113. On Forgiveness 279
114. Good Friday World 282
115. A Heart as Wide as the World 285
116. A Task 286
117. The Table of Peace 287
118. The Courage to Wait 290
119. Buddhist Meditation on Compassion 294
120. In My Soul 295
121. CHAPTER 8. Paths to Transformation
122. Hope in The Dark 297
123. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion 304
124. Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future 311
125. Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence 317
126. Candles in Babylon 318
127. On Citizen Diplomacy 319
128. A New World Diplomacy 325
129. On Courage and Resistance 328
130. War Crimes Tribunal May End Impurity but They Can’t Heal Hatred 334
131. The Courage to Love 334
132. At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace 337
133. The Greatest Danger 337
134. Thanks but No Thanks 340
135. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty 344
136. The Generation of Trust 344
137. Contributor Biographies 353
138. Credits 363