Building a culture of peace...

 


United Nations
Declaration for a
Culture of Peace and
Nonviolence

  1. Nonviolence Education
  2. Sustainable Development
  3. Respect for Human Rights
  4. Gender Equality
  5. Participatory Democracy
  6. Tolerance
  7. Open Communication
  8. International Security
 

NEWS and EVENTS

CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT SOLUTIONS
2012 ANNUAL MEETING

Watch Worcester Television Channel 13 on Monday, April 16, 2012 for a broadcast of Dr. Michael Hirsh's talk on his work to reduce violence against children in our community.

Goods for Guns, nonviolence
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Michael Hirsh, Chief of pediatric surgery and trauma, surgeon-in-chief and associate director of the UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, and co-founder, Goods for Guns program in Worcester, receives the CNVS Organization Award for Goods for Guns from CNVS Board member, Michael True, on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

"Ice Cream Challenge" Nonviolence Youth Award
Jeanelle Wheeler, model peace-maker and author, Ice Cream Challenge, receives the CNVS Youth award from Christa Drew, CNVS Executive Director.

songs of peace
Jim Scott, Musician and song-writer, provides uplifting music at the CNVS Annual Meeting on March 24, 2012.

CNVS Nonviolence Awards:
Goods for Guns buyback program, Worcester organization award
Jeanelle Wheeler, author and presenter, Ice Cream Challenge, Youth award

 

 

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Email: inquiry@nonviolentsolution.org

Learn about COMMUNITY MEDIATION SERVICES at the Center for Nonviolent Solutions.
Helping People Create Their Own Solutions....one conversation at a time.

To request mediation services or to get more information, send an email mediation@nonviolentsolution.org or call
(774) 641-1566

If We Don't Teach Peace, a documentary video created by Kyle Forbes Bissell, about the work of the Center for Nonviolent Solutions, premiered at The Way of Nonviolence event on October 22, 2011. Watch it here.

Periodic Postings on Peace and Justice, AFSC-SENE blog.

Bridging Differences -- Building Community
Katie Green, Storyteller, 73 Bullard Rd, Princeton, MA 01541

Bridging Differences -- Building Community is a school residency program that will assist classroom teachers in addressing difficult situations. Learn more at http://www.katiegreenstories.com



"The wars we haven’t had saved many lives."
~William Stafford
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~Mohandas Gandhi
"Our choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
~Benjamin Franklin
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict."
~Dorothy Thompson
"I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
~Helen Keller
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist."
~Indira Gandhi
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."
~William E Gladstone
"Imagine all the people living life in peace..."
~John Lennon
"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
~Moshe Dayan
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."
~Ronald Reagan
 
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