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There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Organizations working for Peace
provides education, resources and actions for a nonviolent lifestyle. The site has wide range of resources from stories, nonviolent exercises, trainings, consultation, books, videos and more on how to cultivate a nonviolent culture.
strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi USA rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation. -Pax Christi Mission Statement
is a non-profit, non-governmental Catholic peace movement working on a global scale on a wide variety of issues. Their strategies include working on conflict transformation, conflict prevention, peace building, education and youth work for peace, nonviolent social change, developing peace spirituality and theology, advocacy and networking.
+ Click to expand | Resources Advancing Initiatives in Nonviolence | Visit Web site
Books
+ Click to expand | From Violence to Wholeness
Ken Butigan and Patricia Bruno, O.P., Pace e Bene, 1996. is a ten-part study and action program that explores nonviolence as a creative, powerful and effective process for addressing and resolving the conflicts in our lives and in the life of the world. Drawing on the vision of Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy Day, this program offers your church, community, or group resources to deepen your journey from fear to freedom, from despair to hope, from violence to wholeness.
+ Click to expand | Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshal B. Rosenberg, PhD, 2003. This book is a complete presentation of the process of what Rosenberg calls "Nonviolent Communication" (NVC) which is based on the principles of nonviolence--the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart. NVC begins by assuming that we are all compassionate by nature and that violent strategies--whether verbal or physical--are learned behaviors taught and supported by the prevailing culture. NVC also assumes that we all share the same, basic human needs, and that each of our actions are a strategy to meet one or more of these needs.
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