This book aims to reflect the first twelve years of collective effort of a non-profit organisation run by volunteers from the fields of journalism and communication: Pressenza, an international press agency with a nonviolent approach.
Rajagopal P. V. shares his four-fold approach to peacebuilding that includes: (1) nonviolent governance; (2) nonviolent social action; (3) nonviolent economy; and (4) nonviolent education.
World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2023 (Sept 22-24, 2023) will make the case for the efficacy of nonviolent resistance as a tool for conflict resolution, highlighting case studies from around the world of unarmed civilian based defense against invasions, occupations, and dictatorships.
Walid Slaïby’s legacy will forever be linked to activism toward the abolition of the death penalty, the struggle for civil rights, and the co-founding of the Academic University College for Non-Violence & Human Rights in Lebanon.
These questions prepared by Rivera Sun for/with the World BEYOND War & Campaign Nonviolence Culture Jamming Team can be used with any movie to encourage critical and thoughtful thinking about narratives of war and peace, violence and nonviolence.
According to the American Friends of the Parents Circle – Families Forum, “the Israeli government has recently announced its intention to restrict the Parents Circle’s public activities, starting with the removal of its Dialogue Meeting programs from Israeli schools…based on false allegations that the Dialogue Meetings [it often hosts in schools] denigrates IDF soldiers.” The dialogue meetings being challenged are led by two PCFF members, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who tell their personal stories of bereavement and explain their choice to engage in dialogue instead of revenge.
Children aren’t just a source of conflict: they can also be agents of peace. So, when a community in Iraq turned to Nonviolent Peaceforce for support, the NP team got to work designing a specialized curriculum for the children.
Marie Dennis received the Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace 2022 award. Watch and read Marie’s acceptance remarks delivered on August 7, 2022, at the Pax Christi USA 50th anniversary national conference.
The Global Campaign for Peace Education has curated a collection of perspectives, analyses, and stories of nonviolent resistance to the war in Ukraine.
Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, illuminates the importance of peace education to overcome fear and hatred, embrace nonviolent solutions, and support the development of peace culture in Ukraine. He also examines the problem of a militarized global order and how a perspective of nonviolent global governance in a future world without armies and borders will help to deescalate Russia-Ukraine and East-West conflict threatening nuclear apocalypse.
The Ashland Center for Nonviolence is pleased to announce the 7th Annual John D. Stratton Conference to be held at Ashland University February 25-26, 2022. The theme of the conference is Satyagraha: Nonviolence in the Gandhi-King Tradition.
As you prepare to honor the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this week, and to soon celebrate Black History Month, the Fellowship of Reconciliation is excited to announce the publication of a new free, online curriculum and study guide to accompany our acclaimed 1957 comic book, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.