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Abstract of "Three Faces of Power" by Kenneth Boulding

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Kenneth Boulding, Three Faces of Power. Calif.: Sage Publications, 1989.

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Conflict Consortium Abstract

This book examines three types of power, destructive, productive (exchange), and integrative power, and explains the role that they have alone and together to bring about social change.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. -- Cesar Chavez

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