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This is a how-to book for activists - and today that means all citizens. It also suggests an overarching framework for involvement.
It is painfully obvious that when imbalance becomes too great a person, a mind, any system will falter unless we readjust, adapt, correct course, change conditions: minds “flip out,” marriages fail, abuses of power occur, human pollution overpowers the environment, and so on. In biology and communications theory we would say that unless we (meaning individuals, cultures, and life itself) constantly and positively readjust toward equilibrium and maintain that crucial harmony of entropy and redundancy, yin and yang, the system will fail. Nonviolent action is what we do to correct course and move toward healthy systems.

Susan L. Allen is an anthropologist and director emerita of Nonviolence Education at Kansas State University, a position she used to develop systems-based campus and community nonviolence projects and an academic Nonviolence Studies Program. Allen holds a doctorate in media anthropology from the University of Kansas, fieldwork at the East-West Center (1980). She is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and was awarded the Kansas Peace Prize in 2011 for progressive community leadership. Her earlier works include Media Anthropology: Informing Global Citizens, Bergin & Garvey, 1994. Additional writings at: www.thetaoofnonviolence.com