Nonviolence is shaped by principles that guide our actions as we work for change.
Love
From small acts of kindness to mass movements for change, nonviolence moves our care for other people into action.
Community
Nonviolence helps us organize our community to refuse to cooperate with injustice. It gives us ways to engage our community in solutions and alternatives.
Justice
Nonviolence offers practical and effective tools to achieve justice in a way that breaks the cycle of violence.
Courage
It takes courage to stand up for peace and justice. Nonviolence unleashes that courage within us.
Our Mission is to help individuals and communities develop the inner resources and practical skills needed to achieve a nonviolent, sustainable, and just world.
We practice and preach culturally informed restorative practices that are a hallmark of Gandhian and Kingian nonviolence as well as many Indigenous cultures worldwide. These restorative practices save money, reduce trauma, and are often more effective than our current justice system.
Sustainability
We enact the connection that Gandhi saw between nonviolence and sustainability by growing our community garden for and with neighbors, by making conscientious purchasing and financial policies, and by keeping vegetarian at the Gandhi House.
Racial Justice
We work to recognize, interrupt, and undo racism – a systemic form of dehumanization embedded in U.S. economic and social systems – in order to stop violence at its root. We enact anti-racist practice in our staff and board as well as in our work and community engagements.
Nonviolence Education
We teach the critical skills of nonviolence by serving youth ages 12-24 through school programs and adults through workshops, presentations, and book groups. We also spread nonviolence through our “Gandhi and Nonviolence” cards and our Nonviolence Now media project, in partnership with Nonviolence News.
Student conversations this past year, in person and online
Drop by our community garden any time between 12:00 pm and 4:30 pm on Tuesdays and 11:00 am and 3:00 pm on Saturdays to help us plant, tend, and harvest …
“People are not going to find their truth-force, or inner authority, by listening to the so-called experts, but by listening to themselves. Every one of us is an expert on …
Join us for community dinners throughout the summer in the Gandhi house and garden. Let’s connect, talk, mourn, celebrate, exchange stories, create ideas, dream, and get to know each other …
Last week, I was invited to speak at a banquet for student leaders at Paul Smith College on the topic of leadership. Below is the text for the talk, offered …
I have a deep and fanatical appreciation for mythology, fairy tales, folktales, and fables. I consumed them endlessly and learned to spot the patterns between these stories. Who are the …
Have you ever made a mistake? I’m willing to bet that 100% of humans who have ever lived on the Earth, and who will ever live on the Earth thereafter, …
We acknowledge the land on which we gather is the treaty territory of the Haudenosaunee Peoples.