Healing Resistance

A Radically Different Response to Harm

Forward by Dr. Benard Lafayette Jr. and David C. Jehnsen

Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism. And yet its basic truth - its restorative power - has been forgotten. Healing Resistance blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice and shows that a principled approach to nonviolence is the way to transform not only unjust systems but broken relationships.

Healing Resistance takes readers through the teachings of “Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation” - the philosophy that emerged from the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - told through the lens of Haga’s decades of Buddhist practice, social justice activism and personal healing.

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  • "Kazu's deep, nuanced and principled commitment to nonviolence has challenged and inspired me and many others."

    Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

  • Joanna Macy

    "We need this book like we need oxygen. Kazu Haga is my teacher."

    Joanna Macy, author of Active Hope

  • Larry Yang

    "Kazu is a masterful teacher connceting our internal and external experiences of intending, of doing, and of being - living together with care and justice."

    Larry Yang, author of Awakening Together

  • Paul Engler

    "Few people are as grounded in the tenets and traditions of principled nonviolence as Kazu."

    Paul Engler, coauthor of This is an Uprising

  • Lynice Pinkard

    "This work is an example of loving inquiry and analysis, not ideology or theory, toward the healing of people and planet."

    Rev. Lynice Pinkard, spiritual director

  • Erica Chenoweth

    "An accessible, thorough, and deeply personal introduction to nonviolence as a power for personal and social transformation. An inspiring read."

    Erica Chenoweth, coauthor of Why Civil Resistance Works

  • Miki Kashtan

    "If anyone ever thought that enough has already been written about nonviolence, they haven't read Kazu's book. What this book accomplishes is nothing short of making nonviolence accessible."

    Miki Kashtan, author of Reweaving Our Human Fabric

  • Susan Burton

    "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."

    Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms. Burton

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