Tom H. Hastings

http://www.peacevoice.info/

Tom H. Hastings, with his undergraduate degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, his Masters in Journalism, and his doctorate in Education, is Coordinator of the undergraduate degree programs in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University.

He is a former member of the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former co-chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and is on the boards of both the IPRA Foundation and the Oregon Peace Institute, as well as the Academic Advisory Council of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

He is Founding Director of PeaceVoice, a program of OPI, and has written several books and many articles about nonviolence and other peace and conflict topics.

He is a former Plowshares resister, a nonviolence trainer, a founding member of two Catholic Worker communities, and currently lives in Whitefeather Peace House. His sons are African American, which literally colored his perspective on the world since the 1960s.

Books by Tom H. Hastings

Image of Meek Ain't Weak
Image of Power
Image of Nonviolent Response to Terrorism
Image of The Lessons of Nonviolence: Theory and Practice in a World of Conflict
Image of A New Era of Nonviolence: The Power of Civil Society Over War

Book Reviews by Tom H. Hastings

Image of We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Author(s):
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genre(s):
Government, Executive Branch, Race & Ethnicity, Political & Social Science

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

December 15, 2017
Reviewed by: 
Tom H. Hastings

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes with a sound mind and a broken heart, with great power and confessed pain, of America’s relationship to African Americans, of African Americans’ struggle to succeed against

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