"On September 22, 2007, a group of monks and protestors marched past barricades in downtown Yangon, Burma1 , chanting the words of Buddha’s loving kindness. They stopped outside the house where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was serving her sentence of house arrest and she tearfully greeted them at the gate. Four days later, the Burmese military cracked down violently on the peaceful demonstrations, killing at least nine unarmed protestors. During the Saffron Revolution, hundreds of thousands of citizens took to the streets to peacefully protest against the repressive military regime. This was the largest social movement in Burma since the 1988 protests, which led to the deaths of 3,000 people in the resulting government crackdown. Why did the people of Burma choose to participate peacefully with the knowledge that the military government would undoubtedly respond with violence? How does a country with no civil rights or political freedoms find peaceful means for conflict resolution?..."