Civil rights work in Mississippi (1964-65) convinced me that strategic nonviolence (the way of the peaceful warrior) is preferable to violence (the way of the warrior) in most situations. It should be obvious that both nonviolence and fighting are preferable to the way of the coward, i.e., meek submission to evil. I largely subscribe to the teachings of Jesus, Gandhi, Walter Wink, and Martin Luther King on nonviolence and believe it is central to dealing with the entire range of crises confronting humankind today (e.g., global warming, wars, starvation, pollution, peak oil, etc, etc.).