Chapter 5: A Way Out of Hell

56: Michael’s Big Claim about Nonviolence

In this video, Nagler makes the claim that nonviolence can stop not only drug addiction--it can solve all of our problems. Hear him out--and find out more.

57: The MEANING of Nonviolence

In this video, Nagler explores how and why people attest that nonviolence gave a meaning to their lives that they had not found in anything else.

58: Restorative Justice the Key

In this video, Michael Nagler makes a case for restorative justice as a key to making nonviolence a part of our culture.

59: Eyes on the Prize

Here, Michael Nagler discusses some successful ways that people around the world have instituted restorative justice. We need to "keep our eyes on the prize," he tells us, by seeing the good hidden in the heart of every person.

60: Restorative Justice Begins in our Mind

In this discussion about Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler gives some examples about the way that restorative justice begins in our minds. He emphasizes that what we tell ourselves about ourselves matters more than we know.

61: What will make Restorative Justice work?

In this talk about Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler gives some examples to show that human beings cannot function equally in a system that maintains punishment as a way to treat each other. Anytime we break human beings into groups like this, we make violence inevitable. When we go beyond those roles and search for a common humanity, we make nonviolence possible.