The late Martin Luther King Jr. is famous for his peaceful protests amongst his enemies. In one of his essays, “Non-violoence: The Only Road to Freedom,” King says that the way to shalom “will be accomplished by persons who have the courage to put an end to suffering by willingly suffering themselves rather than inflict suffering on others.” This is one way of turning on the lights. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” Jesus says, “for they will be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9). In the book Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement, Brian Walsh and Steven Bouma-Prediger say this about contentiousness (which is the opposite of peaceableness): “Like a parasite living on a host, contentiousness feeds on rage and rancor, antipathy and animosity, to fan the fire of discord and accelerate the spiral of violence.” (214).
Source: Brian Walsh & Steven Bouma-Prediger - "Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement", p. 214, as quoted by Jeff Skeens in "The Beautiful Disruption of Peace", A2J Blog, Apprenticeship to Jesus, 7 Feb 2017, http://www.a2jphoenix.org/blog/the-beautiful-disruption-of-peace
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