by David Krieger for Waging Peace 27 August 2014 The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) is an island country in the northern Pacific with a population of approximately 70,000 people. For such a small country, it is making big waves.  As a country at risk of being submerged due [...]

By Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan for Foreign Affairs   27 August 2014Over the past three years, the world has witnessed a surge of nonviolent resistance movements. Pictures of huge demonstrations in public squares have become a staple of international news broadcasts, and Time named “the protester” as its Person of [...]

Written by Winslow Myers for Peacevoice 27 August 2014 Is it too much of a stretch to link the alleged police execution of Michael Brown in Missouri with the terrorist execution of journalist James Foley somewhere in Iraq? Setting aside obvious differences, do these tragedies have anything in common? We humans [...]

A PARTNERSHIP OF NONVIOLENCE TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING FOR NONVIOLENT TRANSFORMATION IN OUR LIVES AND OUR WORLD. Find the newly launched website here. “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”  — Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Vernon Clark for The Inquirer, Published on Philly.com Wed August 20 2014 For Anton Moore, engaging people through social media, word of mouth, and street-corner conversation has been a way of building bridges between people and communities. Concerned about violence this year between young men in his South Philadelphia [...]

By Reuters, Published on Global Good News Mon August 18 2014 Victims of Colombia's 50-year-old war pleaded with peace negotiators to reach a deal and said they were willing to forgive heinous acts of cruelty, urging Colombians to unite behind the effort to end the bloodshed. Twelve victims from all sides [...]