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The challenge to violence
Alternatives to violence can get better results. So why aren’t we using them? Chris Richards goes to Sri Lanka and finds out.

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History’s rich tapestry of human rights won and dictators defeated without so much as a shot fired.

Letters from Gandhi
What would Gandhi say today? Anthony Kelly and Jason MacLeod ask his spirit.

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