“It is the latter sense of nonviolence, as an ecstatic awakening to the truth, or a mystical enlightenment, that creates the paradox of an enlightened nonviolent warrior…”
Safoora Arbab, “The Ecstasy and Anarchy of Nonviolence: The Khudai Khidmatgar Resistance in the North-West Frontier of British India” (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Metta Center of Nonviolence (online): “Enlightened Ecstasy: The Nonviolence of the Khudai Khidmatgars,” 7th August 2020
Soul Force Project, Los Angeles: “The Ecstasy and Anarchy of Nonviolence,” 9th February 2020
Institute of World Culture, Santa Barbara: “Ecstatic Nonviolence in the North-West Frontier of British India,” 26th January 2019
South Asia Collective honoring Reverend James Lawson, Fullerton California: “The Ecstasy of Nonviolence: Bacha Khan and the Servants of God;” 6th October 2018
Workshop: “Nonviolence and Decolonization: The Khudai Khidmatgars Embodied Resistance,” at the conference, Challenges of Research on Conflict-induced Displacement and Migration in Europe and South Asia—Negotiating Space, Gender, Language Volatilities and Hegemonies, organized by the Center for Excellence in Gender Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan: 23rd-25th January 2017
dǝ bābā pukhtǝnū sẗrgow
wrtȃ ūkṛǝy qisǝy nūrǝy
Baba’s Pukhtun eyes
told them tales of another kind
“‘ǝdm-e-ẗushdǝd,” or”Nonviolence” by Ghani Khan