Jonathan Schell's The Unconquerable World (Penguin), believing with passion that minds and peaceful protest matter much more than war, ranges far beyond 1968.
Life in the countryside is not peaceful, no matter what they tell you.
"If we can make a difference, we feel it is our obligation," said Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, perhaps understating the Norwegian knack for, and interest in, all matters peaceful.
"We intend to keep the matter peaceful on our side," he said.
A policeman has suffered a head injury after an initially peaceful Sikh Lives Matter protest was marred by what officers described as a violent minority.
Peaceful territories, no matter how numerous, don't make news, and people quickly forget the wars and atrocities of even the recent past.
And while the killing of blameless cops reporting for duty at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas on Thursday night is a new, heinous twist, the outcome – the gunning down of innocents – has become the status quo.
The shootings came at the end of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest sparked by the killing of two black men – Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota – by police officers in separate incidents earlier this week.
For Mr. Friedlander, his surroundings are an exercise in mastering a sort of Zen, "and not identifying with my apartment," he explained, "being able to find peaceful existence no matter what kind of living situation".
She admitted on Saturday to closely following the events in Dallas, where on Thursday five police officers were killed and seven others wounded at the end of a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest over the recent police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
