videos
Peaceful Societies Introduces a New Video Resource
The goal of this website, Peaceful Societies, is to promote peacefulness through the study of societies that are already nonviolent. They provide examples from which we might learn to be more peaceful by dealing more effectively and nonviolently with conflict. This website also strives to reflect the goals of its host, the UAB Department of […]
Patterns of Mbuti Forest Life [video review]
“There are no fixed patterns in the Mbuti way of life—whenever the mood takes them, they move deep into the forest and set up a hunting camp.” The narrative that accompanies a marvelous film about the research of famed scientists Terese and John Hart also provides a great deal of information about the Mbuti way […]
Good Chewong Video, Great Ifaluk Video
Many lingering views of cute kids highlight a charming video of the Chewong community located at Lanchang, next to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary in Malaysia’s Pahang State. Uploaded to YouTube last Thursday, January 26th, the video shows scenes of the community: adults raking their gardens, kids mugging for the camera, men cutting grass with […]
Chewong Village Must Make Way for Progress and Money [video review]
The video opens in an Orang Asli community: a teenage girl carries a baby up a ladder into a house; a woman tends a cooking fire; two babies reach out and touch one another. A man plays a flute in the background to introduce a peaceful, bucolic village. Last Wednesday, the Center for Orang Asli […]
