About the Author

Wende Marshall has been an activist in southern African liberation support work and anti-apartheid organizing, was a tenant organizer in Harlem NYC, a volunteer and board member of the first needle exchange program in Philadelphia, an ethnographer of the decolonization movement in Hawaii, a living wage activist, and a leader/organizer with Stadium Stompers, a North Philadelphia-based campaign of community residents, students and workers who fought to stop Temple University's proposed football stadium. As an adjunct at Temple, Marshall was a leader in the effort to unionize adjuncts, served as Chair of the Adjunct Constituency Council and Member of the Executive Committee. Currently, she is on the National Organizing Committee of Peoples Strike.

Matt Meyer, a native New York City-based educator, activist, and author, is the War Resisters International Africa Support Network Coordinator, and a United Nations/ECOSOC representative of the International Peace Research Association. The founding chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and former Chair of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development (COPRED), Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as co-convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in commenting on Meyer's first book (co-authored with Pan-African pacifist Bill Sutherland), wrote that "Sutherland and Meyer have looked beyond the short-term strategies and tactics which too often divide progressive people . . . They have begun to develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness."

Joyce Ajlouny has served as the General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee (the 1947 Nobel Peace laureate), since September of 2017. A Quaker leader who is committed to help bring peace and justice to oppressed and vulnerable communities globally, Joyce is a Palestinian American who started her career working in international development in Palestine, focusing on minority and refugee rights, gender equality, economic development, and humanitarian support. She served as the country director for Palestine and Israel with Oxfam-Great Britain, chaired the Association of International Development Agencies, and worked as a program manager at various United Nations agencies. Prior to joining AFSC, Joyce served as the director of the Ramallah Friends School in Palestine for 13 years, where she led a diverse staff to transform the school academically, physically and financially.

Reviews

Finally, Gandhi and Fanon come together in strategic dialogue! ... new connections from their militant daughters, granddaughters and new generations of resisters and scholars .--Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and ivil ResistanceThis is a book you will want to keep readily accessible as we all struggle through these most challenging of times, this is a book you will want to share with others. --Leslie Cagan, former national coordinator, United for Peace and Justice; former co-chair, Pacifica RadioThis book should awaken everyone to the call for action in the struggle to birth a just new world. It is either we act now in solidarity or we descend deeper into the pit of barbarism. -- Nnimmo Bassey, Right Livelihood laureate, 2010An amazing collection of thinkers from around the world. -- Binalakshmi Nepram, founder, Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace; Board member, 1910 Nobel Peace laureate International Peace BureauI've often said that actions which grow out of love have the most power ... This powerful book brings together both classic and new works which will help empower future generations in building for peace and decolonization. --Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican former political prisoner, named "the Mandela of the Americas" by progressive Latin American heads of state