What is the Shanti Sena Network?

 

The Shanti Sena Network (SSN) comprises members from peace teams from around the US and Canada and is open to members worldwide.

Passionate about building a new paradigm of security, members of SSN want to use nonviolent ways of resolving conflicts without the potentially violent intervention from law enforcement or the military. They offer trainings, services of unarmed civilian intervention, and conflict de-escalation.

Understanding Peace Teams

Michael Nagler on the basics of peace teams in a video created for the Nonviolent Peaceforce and UNITAR. The transcript is available here.

 

To join or receive more information about the Shanti Sena Network, please contact Adele Lennig.

 

  • Alternative Community Security: Initiatives and Stories

    Examples of existing and potential initiatives toward a comprehensive, systemic transformation of community protection. Read here.

 

Unarmed Peace Teams in Action

See how unarmed peacekeeping shows us a way out of war in this short video from Nonviolent Peaceforce. (Read more about this video.)

Readings for Further Study

Satyagraha (Non-violent Resistance), M.K. Gandhi

Gandhi’s Peace Army: The Shanti Sena and Unarmed Peacekeeping, Thomas Weber

A Nonviolent Revolutionary: Story of a Gandhian Educator, Narayan Desai

Towards a Nonviolent Revolution, by Narayan Desai

Handbook for Satyagrahis: A Manual for Volunteers of Total Revolution,  Narayan Desai

Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, Eknath Easwaran

Search for a Nonviolent Future, Michael Nagler

Unarmed Bodyguards: International Accompaniment for the Protection of Human Rights, Mahony & Eguren

Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy, Wipf and Stock, 2012, Eli McCarthy

Witness for Peace, Ed Griffin-Nolan

Getting in the Way: Stories from Christian Peacemaker Teams, ed. Brown

Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking, Gish

Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System, Sharp

The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, ICISS

Nonviolent Direct Action: American Cases-Psychological Analyses, Hare & Blumberg

Liberation without Violence, Hare & Blumbert