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Amidst continued killing at the end of history’s most violent century,
the Center for Global Nonviolence arises out of faith that a nonviolent
world is possible. It is possible for humans to stop killing each
other from the family to the global community.
The idea of establishing a Center for Global Nonviolence to assist
discovery and expression of nonviolent human potentials is akin to the 15th
century voyages of discovery and the 20th century project to place a man on
the moon. In each case the formerly impossible, and even unthinkable,
was transformed into reality by a combination of faith and commitment,
assemblage of available knowledge and skills, creation of a new knowledge,
invention of new technologies, training, and institutional development --
all made possible by providers of moral and material support with vision
and courage to share the failures and successes of discovery.
Small, creative, catalytic, and responsive, by combining and sharing the
spirit, science, skills, arts, institutions, and resources of all, the
Center can serve as a significant contributor to leadership for nonviolent
global transformation.
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