“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,” 7^th August 2020

Soul Force Project, Los Angeles: “The Ecstasy and Anarchy of Nonviolence,” 9^th February 2020

Institute of World Culture, Santa Barbara: “Ecstatic Nonviolence in the North-West Frontier of British India,” 26^th January 2019

South Asia Collective honoring Reverend James Lawson, Fullerton California: “The Ecstasy of Nonviolence: Bacha Khan and the Servants of God;” 6^th 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: 23^rd-25^th 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