About the Author


 About the Author 

 



Susan L. Allen, Ph.D. is an educator and advocate for practical, every day nonviolence. Her  work focuses on systems thinking, human relationships, ecology, and philosophical Taoism. 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.

  EveryDay Nonviolence is the updated second edition of her earlier book, The Tao of Nonviolence: Why Nonviolence Matters (2016).

   

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