Nonviolence Speaks To Power : Petra K. Kelly
edited by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt

The book of 183 pages consists of an introductory essay by Glenn Paige, five
speeches and four essays by Petra Kelly (the essay about Tibet was written
with Gert Bastian).  They cover a time period from August 1987 to February
1991.  The topics covered include green politics, world hunger, ecopolitics,
nonviolence, the nuclear free world, the new world order of Bush, the
reunification of Europe, Tibet, her eight years in Parliament, the 1991 Gulf
War and biographic material.  The editors seemed to have picked the speeches
and essays to illustrate that Petra Kelly spoke to "power at the top and
bottom".  They compare her to Gandhi and King in contemporary importance as a
global leader of nonviolence philosophy and politics, differing mainly in her
focus on ecology, global orientation and women's issues.  They summed up
Petra's message as "respect life, be truthful about threats to its existence
and work nonviolently to remove them".  The speeches and essays are inspiring
reading material for anyone interested in the study and practice of
nonviolence.

This 1992 book is published by the Center for Global Nonviolence Planning
Project.  Send inquiries to the editors at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute
for Peace, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii  96822.
Jerry D. Smith