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Youth Violence Prevention Series
The Power of Nonviolence in the Classroom The Power Within: Reaching Our Highest Potential Through the Practice of Nonviolence is a workbook and video series for high school educators and students. Featuring Metta World Peace, the series was developed by Metta Center for Nonviolence in collaboration with XCEL University. Teachers and students can view and… read more
Peace Profiles: Sojourner Truth
Nonviolence is an integral part of American history, and not only because of Martin Luther King, Jr.! Peaceful activists were quite common in early America and in the rest of the world. Our Peace Profiles series focuses on one well known figure in History or current events who were/are deeply committed to pacifism, nonviolence, and… read more
Commonly Posed Objections
What Skeptics of Nonviolence Say If you’ve studied nonviolence even for a day, you’ve likely heard at least one of the common objections raised by those who doubt its power. Below, we respond to questions and misperceptions frequently brought up by skeptics. Our responses follow the italicized objections in plain text. Have some tough questions… read more
Strategic Advisory Council
The Metta Center is proud to work with the following individuals who serve on our Strategic Advisory Council (SAC). Members meet with Metta staff four times a year to advise on innovations for Metta’s materials, explore opportunities to reach new communities and generate collective insight into nonviolent movements worldwide. The majority of SAC members have… read more
The New Story (Roadmap Course Follow-up)
This blog is meant to bring us more deeply together as a community after spending four-weeks together in the Roadmap tele-course. As with the previous question, please reflect in the comment boxes below on the following questions: Here is Metta’s primary, working document on the New Story. HOW DO I ARTICULATE THE NEW STORY IN… read more
Resources for Roadmap
This is a place to review the Roadmap materials. The Roadmap Compass Click on the image to the left to get connected through the Roadmap Compass. Roadmap Brochure and Poster Click on the image on the left to obtain a brochure of the Roadmap! You can customize a version of the brochure… read more
Roadmap FAQs
Who can join Roadmap? Roadmap is more of a movement than an organization (although there will be a coordinating group). Anyone can participate, either as a passive observer, a reporteur for one or more projects, a user of Compass, or in some cases part of the planning teams projected to emerge during 2013. You will be part… read more
What you can do
What you can do NOW: Check out the free .pdf version of the Roadmap Watch this webinar on the Roadmap strategy Read and consider taking the Pledge of Nonviolence Read the version of the “New Story” developed so far (a “Story of Belonging”) Sign up at the left so we can let you know when… read more
Women and Combat
by Michael Nagler, originally posted on Feb. 4, in Tikkun Daily. Alongside horrifying pictures from the New York Times showing very young boys being trained to fire assault rifles (“Selling a New Generation on Guns”) comes the news, welcome in some quarters, that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has ordered the military to admit women to full combat… read more
Feminist Spiritual Politics: Getting Personal About Gun Control
The personal is the political, has always struck me as incomplete. It was Teilhard de Chardin who first said “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” The ‘personal is the political’ assumes an incomplete worldview, a cosmology of separation where the individual is forced to turn… read more
