Weapons of Love – How Confrontational Compassion Defeats Violence | David Pulsipher | TEDxRexburg

David Pulsipher is a professor at Brigham Young University­–Idaho, where he teaches the theories and history of conflict, peace, and nonviolence. He earned a BA in American Studies from Brigham Young University (1991) and a PhD in the same discipline from the University of Minnesota (1999). In 2007-2008 he was a visiting professor and Fulbright scholar at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, India. He is the author of When We Don’t See Eye to Eye: Using the Weapon of Love to Overcome Anger and Aggression (2014). He and his wife, Dawn, are the parents of six children and they live in Rexburg, Idaho, which they love most of the year, except when it is too hot. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx