Live Webinar: Tuesday, January 13 @ 7:00pm Center for Nonviolent Solutions and Community Alliance for Peace and Justice are proud to sponsor a webinar featuring former U.S. State Department official Josh Paul. He will offer a timely overview of the current situation...

Photo: The Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, 1934.65 Lee Mingwei's Our Peaceable Kingdom exhibition (on view through Feb 1) at the Worcester Art Museum showcases multiple visual responses to Edward Hicks' painting of similar name, asking the question, "What is...

Center for Nonviolent Solutions Annual MeetingTuesday, May 16, 7:00PMBlessed Sacrament Church, Phelan Center551 Pleasant Street, Worcester CNVS Program Director Claire Schaeffer-Duffy will speak on her recent trip to Ukraine with the Zaporizhzhia Protection Project,...

Thursday, February 17 7:00 p.m    -Register Here- An award-winning school teacher and an award-winning multimedia artist team up to create an innovative digital platform for teaching the critical history of race in America. Join us for their presentation next week....

A Screening of "At the River I Stand" Tuesday, January 18 7:00 p.m    -Register Here- Please join us the screening of "At the River I Stand", a documentary about the costs and possibilities of nonviolent struggle. This film reconstructs the two eventful months in 1968...

An Evening with Andrew Bacevich Historian Andrew J. Bacevich discusses his latest book and his efforts to reconceptualize US foreign policy to better serve both vital American interests and the broader shared interest of creating a more just and peaceful world. 7:00...

Way of Nonviolence: Michael True Annual Lecture Celebrates the work of Dr. Ira Helfand and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons The global movement to abolish nuclear weapons is growing! Join us for a screening of The Beginning of the End of Nuclear...

Meet our peacemaking forebearers during a Walking Tour of Worcester's Peace History, Sunday, October 24, 2 p.m. Learn about the strategic peace of Massasoit, Great Sachem of Wampanoag peoples. Listen to a dramatic re-telling of the nonviolent rebellion of 1774. Hear...

Transforming Schools Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution: An evening with Robin Wildman, Executive Director of Nonviolent Schools Rhode Island A virtual event that is free and open to the public 7:00 p.m    -Register Here- Robin Wildman has been a senior level Kingian...

Celebrating Young Peacebuilders: A Series of Short Documentaries about Young People Working for a Better World The world is experiencing a 30-year high in violent conflict. Battle deaths worldwide have increased by 340 percent in the last 10 years. Nearly 70 million...

Center co-founder Michael True was a man of many titles – professor of American Literature, father, writer, and one of Worcester’s most indefatigable peacemakers. During his life, Michael devoted a lot of ink to highlighting the work of nonviolent activists, known and...

Center for Nonviolent Solutions Annual Meeting Tuesday, March 30th at 7:00 PM (Register Here) Our Keynote speaker, Paula Green, Founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding in Amherst, MA, has decades of experience in: Developing and facilitating international...

Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer Tuesday, March 23rd at 12:00 PM (Register Here)   Author Kate Clifford Larson speaks on her upcoming biography of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer was an extraordinary American activist whose...

Center for Nonviolent Solutions Annual Meeting Tuesday, March 30th at 7:00 PM (Register Here) The evening includes a brief review of our 2020 programs and a presentation by Paula Green and Gwen Johnson on Hands Across the Hills: US Dialogues in an Era of Polarization...

Is Nonviolent Policing Possible? Charles Alphin Sr. a retired police captain and veteran trainer in Kingian Nonviolence thinks so. Join us for an engaging evening on nonviolence and policing. Wednesday, February 24 – 7:00 p.m. Discussion and Q&A to follow. Event...

Join us for a Virtual Screening of The Third Harmony, Michael Nagler's outstanding documentary on nonviolence. Wednesday, January 27 Livestream Film Screening at 7:00 PM (Screening Room opens at 6:30 PM) Post-Screening Discussion at 7:50 PM Screening room:...

True Commitments, Michael True’s long-awaited memoir is out! Just in time for your holiday gift giving. A professor of literature, author, peace scholar, and committed father, Michael was an irrepressible advocate of nonviolence. Throughout his life, he wrote of poets...