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!Presente! Laurie Winn Carlson works were selected based on! Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the School of the Americas (also known as the SOA or WHINSEC). Specifically,it analyzes how the presence of the dead a presence proclaimed at the annual vigil of the School of the Americas Watch shapes a distinctive, transnational, nonviolent movement. Kyle B. T. Lambelet argues that such a messianic affirmation need not devolve into violence