Kazu Haga - Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

Kazu Hagas deep, nuanced, and principled commitment to nonviolence has challenged and inspired me and many others whove had the privilege of encountering his work.

MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

To resist todays violence exploding everywhere, in ways that can actually heal our world, seems a pipe dreamuntil Kazu Haga makes it real. In his wry, funny, and utterly grounded fashion, he helps me believe we can do it and begin to become the Beloved Community. We need this book like oxygen.

JOANNA MACY, author of World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal

Kazu Haga broadens the landscape of nonviolence from an idealistic, often passively perceived, aspiration into a practical path of being deeply engaged and lovingly transformative of our world. Beautifully accessible and profound, Haga is a masterful teacher connecting our internal and external experiences of intending, of doing, and of beingliving together with care and justice.

LARRY YANG, core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and author of Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community

Kazu Haga has written an accessible, thorough, and deeply personal introduction to nonviolence as a power for personal and social transformation. He reflects upon common myths about nonviolent resistance, offers practical insight from his own experiences, and challenges readers to consider a radical, healing approach to confronting injustice. An inspiring read.

ERICA CHENOWETH, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and coauthor of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

An inspiring book about the power of nonviolenceliving it in our lives and using it in our work for social transformation. Kazu Haga brings to life Martin Luther King Jr.s six principles of nonviolence and his six steps for building powerful nonviolent campaigns. Read this book, feel empowered, and help build the Beloved Community.

DAVID HARTSOUGH, author of Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist and cofounder of Nonviolent Peaceforce and World Beyond War

Healing Resistance breathes life into the often misunderstood study and practice of nonviolence. Kazu Haga simply and beautifully articulates the nuances, the grays necessary to be and build the Beloved Community. Haga exemplifies our value that the Beloved Community is not just a destination but the journey. Its how and why we do the work and yet it is the work itself.

AINKA JACKSON, executive director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth & Reconciliation

Kazu Haga has offered us his heart and soul, inviting us to liberation from a domination system fueled by unconsciousness. He effortlessly dispatches the myopias associated with nonviolence in the only way he knows howthrough love and accessibility.

ANTHONY K. ROGERS-WRIGHT, author of IntersectionALL: Missed Opportunities and New Possibilities for the Climate Community

Healing Resistance is one of the most accessible, convincing cases for the effectiveness and necessity of nonviolence to date. Kazu Haga draws on years of experience in movement work to offer a grounded and deeply inspiring blueprint for how to build a more just worldone that reflects deep empathy and wisdom beyond his years. He is one of our brightest lights in this dark time, and his book is a gift to us all.

ERIC STONER, cofounding editor of Waging Nonviolence

Peace is messy, and nonviolence is the work of the courageous. In Healing Resistance, Kazu Haga takes on the why of violence, breaks it down, and then builds us up for the work we need to do now.

MUSHIM PATRICIA IKEDA, Buddhist teacher, author of I Vow Not to Burn Out, and racial justice community activist

Healing Resistance is an incredibly authentic and embodied work. Author Kazu Haga shepherds us by his own example. This work is an example of loving inquiry and analysis, not ideology or theory, toward the healing of people and planet. With empathic humility and generosity, he shows us that the nature of being human means that reconciliation, peace, and wholeness, in all of their variegated forms, are always a possibility.

REVEREND LYNICE PINKARD, pastor, activist, and author of Revolutionary Suicide: Risking Everything to Transform Society and Live Fully

Healing Resistance is a beautiful book that allows us to think about how to reduce harm and live in harmony. It is a tool for sustaining movements and movement builders. The pages hold not only past movements and philosophy but the possibility for a better future.

SUSAN BURTON, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project

Few people are as grounded in the tenets and traditions of principled nonviolence as Kazu Haga. Any of the thousands of people that Haga has trained in nonviolence can attest to the great wisdom, care, and talent he brings to his craft. He is informed by a rich spiritual practice, deep practical experience in social movement organizing, and years of careful research into nonviolent campaigns. It is a rare combination that he brings to his writing, and we can all be grateful that Kazu has given us this offering.

PAUL ENGLER, coauthor of This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolution is Shaping the 21st Century

At a time when the literature is often divided between advocates of nonviolence out of principle and advocates of nonviolent action for strategic and utilitarian reasons, Kazu Haga puts forth a compelling argument as to why both are important to challenge the forces of oppression and build a better world.

STEPHEN ZUNES, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco and author of Nonviolent Social Movements

Healing Resistance is a powerful window into the world of Kingian Nonviolence. In these times, when our species is weak in its reciprocity with Mother Earth and with each other, this great tradition illuminates the need for reconciliation, struggle, and personal transformation. Haga honors this tradition by sharing a moving account of his personal journey with us.

CARLOS SAAVEDRA, founder of the Ayni Institute

If anyone ever thought that enough has already been written about nonviolence, they havent read Kazu Hagas book. What this book accomplishes is nothing short of making nonviolence accessible, hopefully to many more people than have previously engaged with it. This is a clear and friendly book, never compromising depth for simplicity, nor losing courage because of the core optimism woven through it. We learn about Haga himself, about the world, about power, about conflict, and about how all of us can increase our capacity to respond effectively to a world gone awry.

MIKI KASHTAN, author of Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working Together to Create a Nonviolent Future

Kazu Haga has written an insightful, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of violence and the personal and political power of nonviolence based on his own experiences. This practical guide for building Beloved Community can inspire activists, organizers, and trainers to go deeper in our efforts.

JOANNE SHEEHAN, War Resisters League

As a serious meditator, Hagas sharp insights point to poignant details about the subtle reality of nature, building on a new human dimension to the adage hurt people hurt people; healed people heal people by adding and embodying with his fierce care loved people love people.