Every source the course cites, gathered in one place. For the participant who wants to go deeper, for the facilitator preparing a specific week, and for anyone using the course's bibliography as a map of the wider terrain. Most entries link directly to a primary source or a reputable overview.
Christian
Matthew 5:9 — "Blessed are the peacemakers." From the Sermon on the Mount.
Jewish
Shalom — Hebrew, from the root sh-l-m. Wholeness, completeness, right relationship.
Islamic
Salaam — Arabic, shares its Semitic root with shalom. Both greeting and orientation.
Hindu, Jain, Buddhist
Ahimsa — Sanskrit. Active nonviolence, mobilized in the modern era by Gandhi.
Lakota
Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ — "All my relations." A prayer and a worldview.
Civil rights tradition
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963). Negative peace vs. positive peace.
Christian
James 1:19 — "Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger."
Jewish
Yetzer hatov and yetzer hara — the inclinations toward good and toward harm.
Islamic
Jihad al-nafs — the inner struggle against the lower self.
Buddhist
The First Noble Truth and mindful awareness — the practice of noticing without being run by what you notice.
Stoic
Epictetus, Enchiridion. "Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."
Civil rights tradition
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on agape — willed, principled love.
Jewish
Shema Yisrael — Deuteronomy 6:4–9. "Hear, O Israel."
Active listening
Carl Rogers, on active listening as receiving without correcting (1950s).
Christian (Hebrew Bible)
Proverbs 18:13 — "To answer before listening is folly and shame."
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication — listening for the need beneath the words.
Islamic
Qur'an 17:36 — "The hearing, the sight, and the heart — about all those one will be questioned."
Buddhist
Thich Nhat Hanh on compassionate / deep listening.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
The Great Law of Peace and the council tradition of patient listening.
Generous listening
Krista Tippett on listening as civic craft across difference.
Quaker
Quaker meeting for worship — silence as primary spiritual practice.
Jewish
Eilu v'eilu divrei Elohim chayim — Talmud, Eruvin 13b. "These and these are the words of the living God."
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. Engaging the strongest opposing view as a discipline of holding your own honestly.
Christian
John 4 — Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt, Moral Foundations Theory. Disagreements are often about different moral weights, not different facts.
Hindu
Gandhi on satyagraha as truth-force.
Braver Angels
Braver Angels — disagreeing without contempt.
Islamic
The Constitution of Medina — 7th-century model of pluralism under one umma.
Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
The Two Row Wampum — two peoples traveling the same river in their own boats.
Buddhist
Right Speech, branch of the Eightfold Path. Truthful, kind, useful, timely.
Jewish
Maimonides on teshuvah — the four-step practice of return.
Guilt, not shame
Brené Brown on guilt vs. shame.
Christian
Matthew 5:23–24 — "Leave your gift at the altar and go. First be reconciled."
Restorative Justice
Howard Zehr, Changing Lenses — three questions, not one.
Islamic
Tawbah — sincere repentance. Qur'an 66:8.
True apology
Harriet Lerner, Why Won't You Apologize?
Buddhist
Sange (Japanese) — confession as facing the pattern.
Hindu
Prayaschitta — Sanskrit term for expiation. Action proportional to harm.
Maori
Whanau conferencing — family-group conferencing, the basis of modern restorative justice.
Jewish
Mechilah, slichah, kapparah — three Hebrew words for distinct aspects of forgiveness.
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958). Forgiveness as the capacity that breaks the chain of action and reaction.
Christian
Matthew 18:21–22 — "Not seven times, but seventy-seven."
The Choice
Edith Eger, The Choice. "You cannot forgive what you have not felt."
Islamic
Qur'an 42:40 — "Whoever forgives and reconciles, their reward is with God."
Boundaries research
Brené Brown — forgiveness requires grieving what was lost.
Buddhist
Metta (loving-kindness) — extended even toward those who have harmed you.
REACH model
Everett Worthington, REACH Forgiveness. Recall, Empathize, Altruistic gift, Commit, Hold.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu philosophy and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. "I am because we are."
Jewish
Amos 5:24 — "Let justice roll down like waters."
The Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. Thinking as a moral act.
Christian
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail — the white moderate.
Civil resistance
Erica Chenoweth — nonviolent movements succeed roughly twice as often as violent ones.
Hindu
Gandhi on satyagraha as active nonviolent resistance.
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative — confronting injustice through proximity.
Islamic
Amr bil-ma'ruf wa-nahy 'an al-munkar — enjoining good, forbidding wrong. Qur'an 3:104.
Buddhist
Engaged Buddhism — Thich Nhat Hanh.
Green Belt Movement
Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement.
Jewish
Pirkei Avot 1:12 — Aaron the high priest as model peacemaker.
The Third Side
William Ury, The Third Side. Most conflicts are shaped by people not directly in them.
Christian
Matthew 18:15–17 — a structured process for conflict in community.
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes. Separate the people from the problem.
Islamic
Qur'an 49:9–10 — "Make peace between two contending brothers."
The Moral Imagination
John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination. Conflict transformation vs. resolution.
Buddhist
Beginning Anew — Plum Village structured conversation.
Bahá'í
Bahá'í consultation — collective truth-seeking, not winning.
Cherokee
Cherokee Peace Chief tradition — mediation as a distinct governance role.
Jewish
Shalom bayit — peace of the household.
Family Systems
Murray Bowen, Family Systems Theory — differentiation of self.
Christian
Ephesians 4:26–27 — "Do not let the sun go down on your anger."
The Drama of the Gifted Child
Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child (1979). The adaptive roles we played to survive.
Islamic
Qur'an 4:36 and hadith on the bonds of kinship.
Bids for connection
John and Julie Gottman on bids for connection — the small daily exchanges that build or erode a relationship.
Confucian
The Analects on filial piety as mutual obligation.
Buddhist
Thich Nhat Hanh, Watering the seeds of love.
Diné (Navajo)
K'é — kinship and harmony as a relational worldview.
Jewish
Pirkei Avot 2:21 — Rabbi Tarfon: "It is not your responsibility to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it."
Atomic Habits
James Clear, Atomic Habits. Trajectory is decided by frequency, not intensity.
Christian
Galatians 6:9 — "Let us not grow weary in doing what is right."
Deliberate Practice
Anders Ericsson on expertise — what sustains and grows skill is deliberate practice at the edge.
Islamic
Hadith on consistent good deeds: "The most beloved of deeds to God are those that are most consistent, even if small." Sahih al-Bukhari.
Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone. Community as social infrastructure, not feeling.
Buddhist
The Eightfold Path — not a curriculum but a way of living, returned to daily.
Hindu
Bhagavad Gita 2:47 — "You have the right to perform your prescribed action, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action."
Aboriginal Australian
Songlines — practice sustained by being walked across generations.
Each supplemental page cites its own bibliography of peer-reviewed research and primary sources. Use these when you want the evidence base behind a specific move or trap, not just the curriculum's summary.
Week 06, Move 01
Pennebaker's expressive writing protocol — Pennebaker (1986), Smyth (1998), Guo (2022), Klein & Boals (2001), and others.
Week 07, Move 01
Name the harm, specifically — Inclusion Nudges, Dan Siegel, Andrews JACL, PALS framework (University of Michigan).
Week 07, Move 03
Refuse the contempt — John Gottman, Nour Kteily, Bryan Stevenson, Loretta Ross, Kerry Patterson.
Week 08, Trap 01
The neutrality myth — Bernard Mayer, Leonard Boulle, Shawn Patey, Mulcahy.
Week 08, Trap 02
The rescuer trap — Stephen Karpman, Bush and Folger.
Week 08, Trap 03
False equivalence — Jordaan, Michigan DV protocol, AAA, Harvard Negotiation Law Review.
Week 08, Move 04
Know when to step out — Trina Grillo, Mayer & Font-Guzmán, Workplace Bullying Institute, Loretta Ross.
A note on this list
This is the bibliography the course actually uses, with primary sources where they exist. It is not a comprehensive reading list for the field — the field is much larger. Books like Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands, John Paul Lederach's The Moral Imagination, Adam Kahane's Collaborating with the Enemy, and many others would deserve places on a fuller list. We may add a "further reading" section over time. For now, this list maps the territory the curriculum itself draws from.