As Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, Michael Nagler co-founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. His books include The Search for a Nonviolent FutureA Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families, and Our WorldThe Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action; and The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature. He most recently directed a documentary on nonviolence of the same title.

He is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran who founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the center’s ashram in Marin County, California since 1970.