The Nonviolent Personality

Th nonviolent personality, by by Giuliano Pontara and translated and edited by Maria (Marijke) Keet.

At the beginning of the new century, the culture of peace finds itself facing many and difficult challenges. This booklet surveys some of these challenges and the characteristics that a mature culture of peace should have in order to respond to them. Particularly, it investigates what type of person is more apt to be a carrier of such a mature culture of peace: the nonviolent personality. Finally, it addresses the question regarding the factors that in the educative process tend to impede and favour, respectively, the development of moral subjects equipped with a nonviolent personality.

The original Italian version was written by Giuliano Pontara, emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Stockholm, and published in 1996, but its message is certainly not outdated and perhaps even more important in the current climate. Why this is so, and why it is useful to have a more widely accessible version of the booklet available, is motivated in the introduction by Maria Keet.

Where to buy it

It is not for sale at the moment. You may download a pdf version for free from the webpage or the epub for easier reading on a wider variety of devices, or read the accompanying blog post introducing the NVP booklet (2011) first.