Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen master, global spiritual guide, peace activist, poet and writer on mindfulness - the art to be at peace with yourself and the world through learning to live in the present moment.

Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a (...)

Training for peace action is a fairly new phenomenon. By training I mean the systematic sharing of skills and knowledge. Activists in former years could learn by apprenticing themselves to experienced leaders, or could pay special attention to (...)

I was with Gerd Büntzly, 69, of Herford, in a demonstration in Germany July 17, 2017. So were Steve Baggarly, Susan Crane, and Bonnie Urfer, all of the United States. Ours was a peaceful if covert, night-time occupation of a protected aircraft (...)

In our complex, interdependent global ecosystem, life is dying, with species extinction accelerating. The climate crisis is worsening much faster than previously predicted. Every single day 200 species are becoming extinct. This desperate (...)

From 1986 through 1994, two years after the United States put a hold on full-scale nuclear weapons testing, 536 anti-nuclear peace demonstrations were held at the site. Many thousands participated and according to government records, 15,740 (...)

Nonviolent resistance actions resulting in arrests were among hundreds of activities around the world commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the August 6 and August 9 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Fr. Jim Murphy crossed (...)

Dear all,

We, Sabine and Laura from “System Change, not Climate Change - Austria”, are working on a (semi-academic) book on Civil Disobedience in the climate justice movement in Europe. We will have about four theoretical contributions by (...)

NONVIOLENCE TRAINING IN CRISIS

The sudden expansion of activism put great strains on the FÖGA-affiliated nonviolence training collectives. In West Berlin, for example, the number of trainers grew from an initial group of four to about 2-3 dozen (...)

THE 1980s — NEW PROSPECTS FOR NONVIOLENT ACTION

First was the precedent of the ecology movement: here nonviolence had been discussed, debated, and practiced by many individuals and groups that remained active in this area or that became (...)

Grassroots activists took a leading role in the growth of a new peace movement, particularly during the ’boom" period of nonviolent blockades (1982-83). Tens of thousands of people took up the cause of nonviolent action in a frantic effort to (...)

NONVIOLENT ACTION BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRY

Grassroots groups were the first organizations of the West German Left to join the movement against nuclear power. (1) They were drawn to the movement partly because they saw in it a broad-based (...)