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	\| birth_place = [[Great Bend]], [[Kansas]]		\| birth_place = [[Great Bend]], [[Kansas]]
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	\| fields = [[Political science]], [[civil resistance]], [[nonviolent revolution]]		\| fields = [[Political science]], [[civil resistance]], [[nonviolent revolution]]
	\| workplaces = [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]]		\| workplaces = [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]]
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	'''Joan Valerie Bondurant''' (1918–2006) was an American political scientist and former spy for the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during [[World War II]].<ref name=squat06>{{cite news\|last=Squatriglia\|first=Charles\|title=Joan Bondurant -- spy, authority on Gandhi <nowiki>[obituary]</nowiki>\|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Joan-Bondurant-spy-authority-on-Gandhi-2551226.php\|access-date=18 June 2013\|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]\|date=21 September 2006}}</ref> She is best known as the author of ''Conquest of Violence: The ~~Ghandian~~ Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a book on [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhian]] political philosophy.		'''Joan Valerie Bondurant''' (December 18, 1918 – September 12, 2006) was an American political scientist and former spy for the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during [[World War II]].<ref name=squat06>{{cite news\|last=Squatriglia\|first=Charles\|title=Joan Bondurant -- spy, authority on Gandhi <nowiki>[obituary]</nowiki>\|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Joan-Bondurant-spy-authority-on-Gandhi-2551226.php\|access-date=18 June 2013\|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]\|date=21 September 2006}}</ref> She is best known as the author of ''Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a book on [[Mahatma Gandhi\|Gandhian]] political philosophy.

	==Early life and intelligence work==		==Early life and intelligence work==
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	==Scholarly career and later life==		==Scholarly career and later life==
	While in India, she met [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and became interested in his [[nonviolent]] approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1952).<ref name=jbdisser>{{cite book \|last=Bondurant \|first=Joan V. \|title=Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation \|year=1952 \|publisher=Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley) \|location=Berkeley, CA \|oclc=21684829}}</ref> She then published ''Conquest of Violence: The ~~Ghandian~~ Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.<ref>{{cite journal \|last=Alexander \|first=Horace \|author-link=Horace Alexander \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[International Affairs (journal)\|International Affairs]] \|date=April 1960 \|volume=36 \|issue=2 \|pages=215–216 \|jstor=2612055 \|publisher=(Royal Institute of International Affairs\|doi=10.2307/2612055 }}</ref><ref name=foreignaffairs58>{{cite journal \|last=Anonymous \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] \|year=1958–1959 \|volume=37 \|pages=516}}</ref><ref name=heimsath59>{{cite journal \|last=Heimsath \|first=Charles H. \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] \|date=July 1959 \|volume=324 \|pages=197–198\|doi=10.1177/000271625932400183 \|s2cid=144648173 }}</ref>		While in India, she met [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and became interested in his [[nonviolent]] approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1952).<ref name=jbdisser>{{cite book \|last=Bondurant \|first=Joan V. \|title=Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation \|year=1952 \|publisher=Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley) \|location=Berkeley, CA \|oclc=21684829}}</ref> She then published ''Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.<ref>{{cite journal \|last=Alexander \|first=Horace \|author-link=Horace Alexander \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[International Affairs (journal)\|International Affairs]] \|date=April 1960 \|volume=36 \|issue=2 \|pages=215–216 \|jstor=2612055 \|publisher=(Royal Institute of International Affairs\|doi=10.2307/2612055 }}</ref><ref name=foreignaffairs58>{{cite journal \|last=Anonymous \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] \|year=1958–1959 \|volume=37 \|pages=516}}</ref><ref name=heimsath59>{{cite journal \|last=Heimsath \|first=Charles H. \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] \|date=July 1959 \|volume=324 \|pages=197–198\|doi=10.1177/000271625932400183 \|s2cid=144648173 }}</ref>

	Later, she took a job teaching at [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]].<ref name=squat06/>		Later, she took a job teaching at [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]].<ref name=squat06/>
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	Her collection of personal and research papers was given to the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation of River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester in 2012 and was opened to researchers in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/papers-of-world-war-ii-spy-friend-of-mahatma-gandhi-now-fully-available-to-the-public-133382/\|title=Papers of World War II spy, friend of Mahatma Gandhi now fully available to the public - NewsCenter\|date=2015-12-31\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref>		Her collection of personal and research papers was given to the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation of River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester in 2012 and was opened to researchers in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/papers-of-world-war-ii-spy-friend-of-mahatma-gandhi-now-fully-available-to-the-public-133382/\|title=Papers of World War II spy, friend of Mahatma Gandhi now fully available to the public - NewsCenter\|date=2015-12-31\|language=en-US\|access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref>

	==~~Works (selected)~~==		==Selected works==
	*{{cite book \|last=Bondurant\|first=Joan V.\|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict \|year=1988 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|location=Princeton, NJ \|edition=New Revised \|isbn= 9780691022819 \|oclc=17385168}}		*{{cite book \|last=Bondurant\|first=Joan V.\|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict \|year=1988 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|location=Princeton, NJ \|edition=New Revised \|isbn= 9780691022819 \|oclc=17385168}}
	**{{cite book \|last=Bondurant\|first=Joan V.\|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict \|year=1958 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|location=Princeton, NJ \|edition=1st \|oclc=154176074}}		**{{cite book \|last=Bondurant\|first=Joan V.\|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict \|year=1958 \|publisher=Princeton University Press \|location=Princeton, NJ \|edition=1st \|oclc=154176074}}
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	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://books.google.com/books?id=b5cF63jx-k4C~~&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Joan+Val%C3%A9rie+Bondurant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvH9UY-7CaKoiQKNvIGwBA&ved=0CDIQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false~~ Sketches of India] (autobiographical work of first India trip, with many photos)		*[https://books.google.com/books?id=b5cF63jx-k4C Sketches of India] (autobiographical work of first India trip, with many photos)
	*[http://www.bondurant-family.org/BFA/History/Entries/2009/12/1_Joan_Bondurant__WWII_Spy_and_Scholar_on_India_%26_Nonviolence.html At Bondurant family website]		*[http://www.bondurant-family.org/BFA/History/Entries/2009/12/1_Joan_Bondurant__WWII_Spy_and_Scholar_on_India_%26_Nonviolence.html At Bondurant family website]
	*[http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4909 Finding aid for the Joan V. Bondurant Papers, 1918-2003], Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester.		*[http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4909 Finding aid for the Joan V. Bondurant Papers, 1918-2003], Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester.
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'''Joan Valerie Bondurant''' (1918–2006) was an American political scientist and former spy for the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) during [[World War II]].<ref name=squat06>{{cite news|last=Squatriglia|first=Charles|title=Joan Bondurant -- spy, authority on Gandhi <nowiki>[obituary]</nowiki>|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Joan-Bondurant-spy-authority-on-Gandhi-2551226.php|access-date=18 June 2013|newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|date=21 September 2006}}</ref> She is best known as the author of ''Conquest of Violence: The Ghandian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a book on [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhian]] political philosophy.

==Early life and intelligence work==

Bondurant was born on 16 December 1918 in [[Great Bend]], [[Kansas]].<ref name=squat06/><ref name=jbbdate>{{cite web |last=AncientFaces |title=Joan V Bondurant (1918 - 2006) |url=http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/joan-v-bondurant/84232515|publisher=AncientFaces|access-date=18 June 2013}}</ref> She was gifted in the piano, and graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] with a degree in music.<ref name=squat06/>

When World War II broke out, she learned Japanese, and was sent to work for the OSS in India, arriving in [[New Delhi]] in May, 1944.<ref name=mcintosh98>{{cite book|last=McIntosh|first=Elizabeth P.|title=Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS|year=1998| publisher=Naval Institute Press| location=Annapolis, MD| isbn=9781557505989 |oclc=38042887 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=7wHWT3WT_rYC&pg=PA188-IA13&dq=%22Joan+Bondurant%22+spy#v=onepage&q=%22Joan%20Bondurant%22%20spy&f=false}}</ref>{{rp|189}}

==Scholarly career and later life==
While in India, she met [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and became interested in his [[nonviolent]] approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1952).<ref name=jbdisser>{{cite book |last=Bondurant |first=Joan V. |title=Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation |year=1952 |publisher=Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley) |location=Berkeley, CA |oclc=21684829}}</ref> She then published ''Conquest of Violence: The Ghandian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Alexander |first=Horace |author-link=Horace Alexander |title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> |journal=[[International Affairs (journal)|International Affairs]] |date=April 1960 |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=215–216 |jstor=2612055 |publisher=(Royal Institute of International Affairs|doi=10.2307/2612055 }}</ref><ref name=foreignaffairs58>{{cite journal |last=Anonymous |title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> |journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] |year=1958–1959 |volume=37 |pages=516}}</ref><ref name=heimsath59>{{cite journal |last=Heimsath |first=Charles H. |title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> |journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] |date=July 1959 |volume=324 |pages=197–198|doi=10.1177/000271625932400183 }}</ref>

Later, she took a job teaching at [[University of the Pacific (United States)|University of the Pacific]].<ref name=squat06/>

Her collection of personal and research papers was given to the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation of River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester in 2012 and was opened to researchers in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/papers-of-world-war-ii-spy-friend-of-mahatma-gandhi-now-fully-available-to-the-public-133382/|title=Papers of World War II spy, friend of Mahatma Gandhi now fully available to the public - NewsCenter|date=2015-12-31|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref>

==Works (selected)==
*{{cite book |last=Bondurant|first=Joan V.|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict |year=1988 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |edition=New Revised |isbn= 9780691022819 |oclc=17385168}}
**{{cite book |last=Bondurant|first=Joan V.|title=Conquest of violence: the Gandhian philosophy of conflict |year=1958 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |edition=1st |oclc=154176074}}
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=Margaret Welpley |title=The Indian experience with democratic elections |year=1956 |publisher=University of California|location=Berkeley, CA |oclc=989639 |author2=Joan V. Bondurant}}
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=Margaret Welpley |title=Indian approaches to a socialist society |year=1956 |publisher=Institute of International Studies, University of California|location=Berkeley, CA |oclc=845127212 |author2=Joan V. Bondurant}}
*{{cite book|last=Bondurant |first=Joan V. |title=Sketches of India, with forty-one photographic illustrations |year=1946 |publisher=Craft Press |location=Ann Arbor, MI|oclc=4579134}}

==See also==
*[[Gene Sharp]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=b5cF63jx-k4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Joan+Val%C3%A9rie+Bondurant%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RvH9UY-7CaKoiQKNvIGwBA&ved=0CDIQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Sketches of India] (autobiographical work of first India trip, with many photos)
*[http://www.bondurant-family.org/BFA/History/Entries/2009/12/1_Joan_Bondurant__WWII_Spy_and_Scholar_on_India_%26_Nonviolence.html At Bondurant family website]
*[http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4909 Finding aid for the Joan V. Bondurant Papers, 1918-2003], Rare Books Special Collections & Preservation Department, University of Rochester.

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	Bondurant was born on 16 December 1918 in [[Great Bend]], [[Kansas]].<ref name=squat06/><ref name=jbbdate>{{cite web \|last=AncientFaces \|title=Joan V Bondurant (1918 - 2006) \|url=http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/joan-v-bondurant/84232515\|publisher=AncientFaces\|access-date=18 June 2013}}</ref> She was gifted in the piano, and graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] with a degree in music.<ref name=squat06/>		Bondurant was born on 16 December 1918 in [[Great Bend]], [[Kansas]].<ref name=squat06/><ref name=jbbdate>{{cite web \|last=AncientFaces \|title=Joan V Bondurant (1918 - 2006) \|url=http://www.ancientfaces.com/person/joan-v-bondurant/84232515\|publisher=AncientFaces\|access-date=18 June 2013}}</ref> She was gifted in the piano, and graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] with a degree in music.<ref name=squat06/>

	When World War II broke out, she learned Japanese, and was sent to work for the OSS in India, arriving in [[New Delhi]] in May, 1944.<ref name=mcintosh98>{{cite book\|last=McIntosh\|first=Elizabeth P.\|title=Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS\|year=1998\| publisher=Naval Institute Press\| location=Annapolis, MD\| isbn=9781557505989 \|oclc=38042887 \|url=https://books.google.com/?id=7wHWT3WT_rYC&~~pg=PA188-IA13&dq~~=%22Joan+Bondurant%22+spy~~#v=onepage~~&q=~~%22Joan%20Bondurant%22%20spy&f=false~~}}</ref>{{rp\|189}}		When World War II broke out, she learned Japanese, and was sent to work for the OSS in India, arriving in [[New Delhi]] in May, 1944.<ref name=mcintosh98>{{cite book\|last=McIntosh\|first=Elizabeth P.\|title=Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS\|year=1998\| publisher=Naval Institute Press\| location=Annapolis, MD\| isbn=9781557505989 \|oclc=38042887 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7wHWT3WT_rYC&q=%22Joan+Bondurant%22+spy&pg=PA188-IA13}}</ref>{{rp\|189}}

	==Scholarly career and later life==		==Scholarly career and later life==
	While in India, she met [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and became interested in his [[nonviolent]] approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1952).<ref name=jbdisser>{{cite book \|last=Bondurant \|first=Joan V. \|title=Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation \|year=1952 \|publisher=Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley) \|location=Berkeley, CA \|oclc=21684829}}</ref> She then published ''Conquest of Violence: The Ghandian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.<ref>{{cite journal \|last=Alexander \|first=Horace \|author-link=Horace Alexander \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[International Affairs (journal)\|International Affairs]] \|date=April 1960 \|volume=36 \|issue=2 \|pages=215–216 \|jstor=2612055 \|publisher=(Royal Institute of International Affairs\|doi=10.2307/2612055 }}</ref><ref name=foreignaffairs58>{{cite journal \|last=Anonymous \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] \|year=1958–1959 \|volume=37 \|pages=516}}</ref><ref name=heimsath59>{{cite journal \|last=Heimsath \|first=Charles H. \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] \|date=July 1959 \|volume=324 \|pages=197–198\|doi=10.1177/000271625932400183 }}</ref>		While in India, she met [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and became interested in his [[nonviolent]] approach to politics. Returning to the US, Bondurant obtained a doctoral degree in political science at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1952).<ref name=jbdisser>{{cite book \|last=Bondurant \|first=Joan V. \|title=Gandhian satyagraha and political theory: an interpretation \|year=1952 \|publisher=Thesis (Ph.D. in Political Science)--University of California, Berkeley) \|location=Berkeley, CA \|oclc=21684829}}</ref> She then published ''Conquest of Violence: The Ghandian Philosophy of Conflict'' (1958), a widely reviewed and influential book on Gandhian politics.<ref>{{cite journal \|last=Alexander \|first=Horace \|author-link=Horace Alexander \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[International Affairs (journal)\|International Affairs]] \|date=April 1960 \|volume=36 \|issue=2 \|pages=215–216 \|jstor=2612055 \|publisher=(Royal Institute of International Affairs\|doi=10.2307/2612055 }}</ref><ref name=foreignaffairs58>{{cite journal \|last=Anonymous \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Foreign Affairs]] \|year=1958–1959 \|volume=37 \|pages=516}}</ref><ref name=heimsath59>{{cite journal \|last=Heimsath \|first=Charles H. \|title=Untitled <nowiki>[</nowiki>review of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, by Joan V. Bondurant<nowiki>]</nowiki> \|journal=[[Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science]] \|date=July 1959 \|volume=324 \|pages=197–198\|doi=10.1177/000271625932400183 \|s2cid=144648173 }}</ref>

	Later, she took a job teaching at [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]].<ref name=squat06/>		Later, she took a job teaching at [[University of the Pacific (United States)\|University of the Pacific]].<ref name=squat06/>
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