As provocateurs try to discredit protests, having civilians trained in de-escalation gives people power a greater chance of success.

Following the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, a global democracy promotion organization called International IDEA added the U.S. to its annual list of ...

Commentary: An authoritative teaching document could call the entire church to Gospel nonviolence. Imagine if all 1.2 billion Catholics in the world were to practice creative, nonviolent peacemaking.

The term “nonviolence” was introduced by Gandhi. It comes from the Sanskrit word ahimsa, meaning the complete absence of the desire for violence.It represents a response to complex, violent ...

The Season for Nonviolence celebrates the work and philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., both distinguished leaders regarding peace and nonviolence. Established in 1998 ...

A history of nonviolence The author of "Cod" suggests that the world's most dangerous idea could have derailed the American Revolution, the Civil War and possibly even World War II.

Nonviolence is the art of our humanity, and I know how hard it is these days to practice that humanity, especially with the ever-increasing number of victims and the failure of hope for any ...

Advocates of nonviolence, for example, use a broad spectrum of protest and “non-cooperation” techniques characterized primarily by the abstention from violence of the “fist, tongue, or heart ...

Judy Coode, left, coordinator of Pax Christi International's Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, and Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi, at the April 4-5 Vatican conference on nonviolence (Pax ...

It is nonviolence only when we love those that hate us." This was the next task that Anita was facing. The most direct route I know to get there is to apply, in our imagination, ...

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions.