Nonviolence Practice

2011 Focus – “The Spirit of Peace-building”

Check out the 2011 Anthology of Featured Events for the 14th Season of Nonviolence

A season for Nonviolence, January 30 – April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world

Co-founded and Convened by the Association for Global New Thought in Partnership with:
• United Centers for Spiritual Living Sacred Social Action Core,
• The Peace Team, a Spiritual Social Action Ministry Team of
Unity Worldwide Ministries, and the
• Universal Foundation for Better Living.

http://www.agnt.org/

The Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence
Co-founded by Dr. Arun Gandhi and the Association for Global New Thought

LEADERSHIP
The Association for Global New Thought
Dr. Michael Beckwith, President
Los Angeles, CA

Project Director / Co-founder
Dr. Barbara Fields, Executive Director
Association for Global New Thought
Santa Barbara, CA

International Task Force Coordinator
Megan Stanek
Association for Global New Thought
Santa Barbara, CA

The Vision

 The Gandhi-King-Chavez Season for Nonviolence

 As a human family we are asking the question: “How can any act of violence be recognized as a solution to the consequences of violence that we face today?” Violent actions and reactions are the scars of social, educational, and economic wounds… the voices of a spiritually inarticulate culture.

 The practice of nonviolence is initiated by choice and cultivated through agreement. The time has come to agree upon this as a global community as if our lives, and those of our children’s children, depended on it. Our vision is of a better world for all human beings.

 To this end, we undertake the “Gandhi -King-Chavez Season for Nonviolence” by applying our efforts and resources to identifying, then bringing focus to the spectrum of grassroots projects and programs by individuals and organizations who are pro-actualizing a peaceful social order

Shared Vision – A Better World is Possible

  “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”  Mahatma Gandhi

 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 There are people everywhere who want to help create a better world – people deeply concerned about widespread suffering, environmental destruction, escalating materialism and the loss of our sense of community. There is a deep and growing hunger for a wiser and more loving society.  Gandhi and King modeled the vision to create such a society.

 They claimed the power for social change lies within individual consciousness. That if we really want to create a wise and loving world, we must first become wise and loving ourselves. With a vision of a society governed by love and the common good — we have a powerful antidote to the violence, distrust and division of today’s politics of fear.

 In practicing the relational principles of Nonviolence we seek to recover and renew ourselves, our families and our politics – so that violence and secrecy no longer shape our behavior.  We realize that our lives, and those of our children, depend on our evolution.  Learning to be non-violent is a new way of living – requiring a healing process that begins with the individual and ripples out into the larger world.  As we heal our own relations we are demonstrating that people, organizations and governments can move the world pro-actively toward peace and wisdom.  Join us in exploring and building this new future.