Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Susan Griffin and Karin Lofthus Carrington -- Part One: A Deeper Look -- 1. Terror and Terrorism -- Susan Griffin, Civilian Casualties: The New Frontline -- Susan Griffin, from a Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War -- Jan Egeland, Statement of the Under-Secretary-General at the Open Meeting of the Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, June 28, 2006 -- Daniel Ellsberg, U.S. Nuclear Terrorism -- Chris Hedges, from "The Truth of War" -- Yannis Ritsos, Afternoon -- George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sam Nunn, a World Free of Nuclear Weapons -- Mike Davis, The First Car Bomb -- Cindy Folkers and Mary Olson, Radiation and Children: The Ignored Victims -- Federico Garcia Lorca, Casida of the Lament -- Jennifer Abrahamson, an Injured Child -- Samantha Power, from "Remarks at the Stockholm International Forum on Genocide Prevention" -- George Lakoff, Beyond the War on Terror: Understanding Reflexive Thought -- Nathan Schwartz-Salant, The American Psyche after September -- Huston Smith, On Religion and Terrorism -- Tariq Ramadan, The Spiritual Source of Islam -- Eqbal Ahmad, Terrorism: Theirs and Ours -- Vandana Shiva, Solidarity Against All Forms of Terrorism -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Lynched for No Offense -- The Fiqh Council of North America, Fatwa Issued on July 28, 2005 -- Nathan D. Baxter, Invocation for the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for 9/11 -- Hafiz, I Have Come to This Earth -- 2. An Unbearable Heartache: Trauma, Violence, and Memory -- Judith Herman, The Aftermath of Violence: Trauma and Recovery -- Ignacio Martin-Baro, from Writings for a Liberation Psychology -- Robin Morgan, Ghosts and Echoes: Reflections after 9/11.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Be Ahead of All Parting -- Deepak Chopra, The Deeper Wound -- Elizabeth Neuffer, from The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- Jodie Evans, Just One Story -- Nelly Sachs, Unfolding -- Terry Tempest Williams, The Hidden Damage of Nuclear Weapons -- Jasmina Tesanovic, from The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade -- Mahmoud Darwish, Under Bombardment in Beirut -- Ariel Dorfman, I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work -- Helene Shulman Lorenz, Interrupted Subjects -- Lenke Rothman, from "Not a Pass" -- Spojmai Zariab, Peace -- Shantideva's Prayer -- St. Thomas Aquinas, We Are Fields before Each Other -- 3. Denial, Dogma, and the Heroic Myth -- Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic -- Erich Fromm, From The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness -- William Stafford, A Ritual to Read to Each Other -- Martha Harrell, Terror Comes Full Circle -- Joan Didion, He Would Need Some Shoes -- Sigmund Freud, from "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" -- Howard Teich, Our Culture's Divided Soul -- Ernest Becker, from The Denial of Death -- Robert H. Ressler, The Verbal Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Barbara Lee, Speech Opposing the Post-9/11 Use of Force Pact, September 14, 2001 -- Jane Hirshfield, Against Certainty -- Susan Dominus, Another Kind of Heroism -- Rabbi Arthur Waskow, On Vulnerability and the Sukkah of Shalom -- Part Two: Paths to Transformation -- 4. In a Dark Time: The Wisdom in Grief, Fear, and Despair -- Miriam Greenspan, Healing Through the Dark Emotions in an Age of Global Threat -- Carolyn Forche, from "An Interview by David Montenegro" -- Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time -- Wendell Berry, Thoughts in the Presence of Fear -- Stanley Kunitz, from "The Testing-Tree" -- Aaron Kipnis, Seeing Red: In a Dark Night of the American Soul -- James Hillman, from a Terrible Love of War.

Joan Miura, Morphologies of Silence -- Sharon Salzberg, Overcoming Cruelty -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Eulogy for the Martyred Children -- 5. Truth Telling and Justice -- General Assembly of the United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Terri Jentz, Naming the Perpetrator -- Taha Muhammad Ali, There Was No Farewell -- Morgan Farley, Facing the Inferno: Transforming Terror into Tenderness -- Ariel Dorfman, Half-Life of a Despot -- Herman Melville, from Moby Dick -- Hannah Arendt, from Crises of the Republic -- Daniel Ellsberg, from Secrets: a Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers -- Claudia Bernardi, The Tenacity of Memory (La Tenacidad de la Memoria) -- Lawrence Weschler, from a Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers -- Theodor Meron, Rape as a War Crime -- Elizabeth Neuffer, from The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda -- The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, Facing into Truth -- Zoroastrian Prayer -- 6. Reclaiming Our Selves: Gender and Violence -- Riane Eisler, Terror, Domination, and Partnership -- Reza Baraheni, from The Crowned Cannibals -- Fatema Mernissi, The Mind as Erotic Weapon -- Carol Gilligan, from The Birth of Pleasure -- Leila Ahmed, a Woman's Side of the Story -- Zainab Salbi, Please Listen to the Women of Iraq -- Melody Ermachild Chavis, from Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan -- Fadwa Tuqan, Behind Bars -- Myriam Miedzian, from Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence -- Karin Lofthus Carrington, She Cannot Be Lost to Me -- Agnes Baker Pilgrim, from "Joining Prayers" -- Gabriela Mistral, Serenity -- Shirin Ebadi, Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize -- Prayer of the Virgin of Guadalupe -- 7. Compassion and the Interdependence of Peace -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Compassion as the Pillar of World Peace.

Daniel Goleman, from Them to Us -- Daniel J. Siegel, from Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation -- Alice Walker, Falling Bodies -- Yoko Ono, Forgive Us -- Martin Luther King, Jr., from Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? -- Fritjof Capra, Sustainability, Security, and Peace -- Czeslaw Milosz, Wilenska -- Jack Kornfield, On Forgiveness -- Anne Lamott, Good Friday World -- Sharon Salzberg, from a Heart as Wide as the World -- Czeslaw Milosz, a Task -- Terry Tempest Williams, The Table of Peace -- Pema Chodron, The Courage to Wait -- Buddhist Meditation on Compassion -- Rabia of Basra, In My Soul -- 8. Paths to Transformation -- Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark -- Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Compassion -- Michael N. Nagler, Nonviolence: Weapon of the Brave, Weapon of the Future -- Mohandas Gandhi, from "Ahimsa or the Way of Nonviolence" -- Denise Levertov, Candles in Babylon -- Dulce Murphy, On Citizen Diplomacy -- Václav Havel, a New World Diplomacy -- Susan Sontag, On Courage and Resistance -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from "War Crimes Tribunals May End Impunity but They Can't Heal Hatred" -- Adelaide Donnelley, The Courage to Love -- Claude Anshin Thomas, from At Hell's Gate: a Soldier's Journey from War to Peace -- Joanna Macy, The Greatest Danger -- Bokara Legendre, Thanks but No Thanks -- Peter Singer, from The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty -- Tyrone Cashman, The Generation of Trust -- Carolyn Forché, Prayer -- Cathy Schwartzman Lawrence, from "Loud Peace" -- Hindu Prayer for Peace -- Contributor Biographies -- Credits.