Links

This page provides additional links to Australian and international organisations which provide training and support for nonviolent activists, publications relevant to the study and practice of nonviolence and websites which promote nonviolence. There are also some links to sites which document the lives and work of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Organisations (Australia)

Activist Rights
The Activist Rights website is an online resource base for activists, organisers, lawyers and legal support teams in Victoria. Includes a guide to legal rights for activists and resources for legal teams.

Alternatives to Violence Project
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a network of independent not-for-profit grass-roots groups offering experiential workshops on creative conflict transformation in prisons, schools, and the wider community.

Decade to Overcome Violence
The Decade to Overcome Violence : Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace is an initiative of the World Council of Churches for the years 2001-2010, supported in Australia by the National Council of Churches.

The Change Agency
The Change Agency is a not-for-profit activist education initiative which supports effective social change by organising learning opportunities, workshops, researching and publishing case studies and providing activist education resources.

Pace e Bene Australia
Pace e Bene Australia is an affiliate of the US-based Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. It's primary activity is to facilitate three workshops: Engage, From Violence to Wholeness and Travelling with the Turtle. Pace e Bene has facilitators in most states and territories.

Peace Brigades International - Australia
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts. PBI Australia actively supports and promotes the important work of PBI around the world.

Peaceful People Power Australia
Peaceful People Power Australia is a blog which aims to "promote nonviolence as the core value influencing the way we deliver our political message".

Pt'chang
Pt'chang is a nonviolent community safety group conducting a wide range of dynamic and creative violence-prevention, peace-building and community safety initiatives. Pt'chang provides training workshops, material and human support to community groups and can also provide co-ordinated teams of trained Nonviolent Peacekeepers upon invitation.

Peace by Peace
Peace by Peace is a Cairns-based group which practices community development and direct action, promotes nonviolence and offers nonviolence training.

Organisations (International)

Albert Einstein Institution
The Albert Einstein Institution researches and promotes the use of nonviolent sanctions. Gene Sharp is the founder and Senior Scholar.

Fellowship of Reconciliation - USA
FOR is "an interfaith organisation committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and a means of radical change" which offers regular nonviolence training. The FOR USA website features a database of US-based nonviolence trainers.

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Founded by Peter Ackermann and Jack Duvall, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict works to promote awareness of nonviolent methods of waging conflict through educational programs, media and field assistance.

International Fellowship of Reconciliation
The International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) is an international, spiritually-based movement composed of people who commit themselves to active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of transformation - personal, social, economic and political. The IFOR Women Peacemakers Program (WPP) works to support women’s initiatives and to highlight the importance of gender awareness in all peace efforts.

International Peacebuilders
The mission of International Peacebuilders is to strengthen the worldwide nonviolent movement for social justice and peace by providing a forum for communication, networking, training, and evaluation.

Irish Network for Nonviolent Action, Training and Education
A network of groups and individuals working for nonviolence. Publishes a bulletin called Nonviolent News.

New England Nonviolence Trainers Network
A network of more than 50 nonviolence trainers throughout New England, offering workshops in topics ranging from conflict resolution to campaign building.

Nonviolence International
Founded by Mubarak Awad, Nonviolence International is a decentralised international network that promotes nonviolent action.

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service
Pace e Bene’s mission is to develop the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence as a way of living and being and as a process for cultural transformation. Pace e Bene offers training in its "From Violence to Wholeness" and "Engage" programs in the US, Canada and Australia.

Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival
Harvard University-based research program which "studies situations of conflict in order to better understand their nature and the capabilities of nonviolent actions in support of human rights and civil liberties."

RANT Collective
RANT works to develop capacity within global justice movements to carry out creative, effective nonviolent direct actions to dismantle unjust systems, institutions and corporations while building power for our movements.

The Ruckus Society
The US-based Ruckus Society holds regular trainings for nonviolent activists focusing on practical NVDA skills.

Scottish Centre for Nonviolence
Offers the following workshops: Introduction to Nonviolence, Dealing Creatively with Conflict, Nonviolence for Activists, Raising Awareness of Prejudice and Cultural Awareness and Training for Trainers.

Training for Change
Founded by George Lakey, Training for Change provides training for nonviolent activists around the world.

Turning the Tide
UK-based, Quaker-run program offering basic workshops on the principles and philosophy/theology of active nonviolence.

West Africa Network for Peacebuilding
WANEP works to strengthen the capacity of peacebuilding organizations and practitioners in West Africa, increase awareness on the use of nonviolent strategies in responding to conflict and build the capacity of West African women to participate in peacebuilding processes.

Publications

Nonviolence Today
Australian magazine devoted to increasing the understanding and use of nonviolence.

Nonviolent Activist
The magazine of the War Resisters League.

Peace Magazine
Canadian magazine with some content relating to nonviolence.

PeaceNews
Published by War Resisters International.

Peacework
Published by the American Friends Service Committee, Peacework Magazine promotes "Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change".

Publications on peace, war and nonviolence by Brian Martin
A collection of books, articles and papers from Australian nonviolence scholar Brian Martin.

New Society Publishers
NSP was founded as the publishing arm of the Movement For a New Society (MNS) in the 1970s, and continues to publish many activism-related titles.

Websites

Database of Successful Strategies for Social Change
Searchable index of case studies of successful social movements.

Healing Trauma
"... a space for people in activist communities who have faced trauma in actions, people who want to learn about trauma recovery and other generally interested folks." Includes information on peer counselling, critical incident stress and activist preparedness.

Mark Shepard's Nonviolence Page
Writings and resources on Mahatma Gandhi, nonviolence, and alternative economics.

Nonviolence.Org
Comment on and analysis of peace-related issues.

Nonviolence Works
The aim of the Nonviolence Works website is to "popularise and promote the power of nonviolence'.

TFF Nonviolence Forum
Presents a collection of articles, analyses and reports which highlight the contemporary relevance of nonviolence.

www.starhawk.org
Website of Starhawk, nonviolence trainer and author of Truth or Dare: Encounters With Power, Authority and Mystery.

Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation
Includes a portal linking to web resources relating to peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, Gandhian philosophy, education, and research.

M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
The M.K. Gandhi Institute was founded by Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, to continue Gandhi's legacy.

Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service
An online archive of Gandhi's writings, as well as audio, video and image files relating to his life and work.

Martin Luther King

The Martin Luther King, Jr Papers Project
Features a number of texts and audio clips of Martin Luther King's speeches and sermons.

The King Center
"Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."