World without Wars and without Violence UK: June 2011

Nobody is born nonviolent

World without Wars and without Violence aims to develop a worldwide commitment to nonviolence as a methodology of action, as a social system and as a lifestyle. Its objective is to achieve a world free of wars as well as physical, economic, racial, religious, sexual, psychological, ecological and moral violence. “Human beings are historical beings whose mode of social action changes their own nature” (Silo). This is the root of both our responsibility and our freedom. And it opens our future.

Nobody is born violent... Or nonviolent for that matter. So Gandhi's "Be the change you want to see in the world" is a great invitation to get rid of the rubbish this violent system has fed us and transform ourselves into the intentional beings that can create the world we all want. See the Active Nonviolence Training (ANVT) exercises. World without Wars and without Violence international site is on www.worldwithoutwars.org/

Monday, 20 June 2011

19J in London

Real Democracy, 15M, 19J, Trafalgar Square on June 19th. Creativity is the key to Active Nonviolence

Saturday, 18 June 2011

June 19th, Real Democracy Now

International Day of Action ~ Trafalgar Square, London, 6 pm

Active Nonviolence, the force that will change the world!

Thursday, 16 June 2011

ANVT 6 - Personal Experience of Violence

This workshop can be done as a personal reflection but it is richer in experience if shared with friend, or used in preparation of nonviolent campaigns.

Personal experience of violence

What is violence from an experiential point of view.
What is your own experience of violence, whether as victim or as perpetrator. Classify the experience according to the type of violence: Physical, Economic, Psychological, Racial, Religious, Ecological, Sexual, Age-related, etc

Describe the types of violence that worry you the most, whether you are directly involved or not. Describe how this affects your image of the future.

ANVT 5 - Detecting our own discrimination

Being an ancient goddess Eirene is a little weary of technology, and a nervous flyer. She was moreover surprised by her own reaction the first time she flew with a female pilot in a Jumbo Jet, and realised then how much the stereotypes fed to us by the prevailing culture can affect even those dedicated to eradicate discrimination. She probably would have kept this episode as a shameful secret had it not been for the following paragraph:

“We put down briefly in Khartoum, where we changed to an Ethiopian Airways flight to Addis. Here I experienced a rather strange sensation. As I was boarding the plane I saw that the pilot was black. I had never seen a black pilot before, and the instant I did I had to quell my panic. How could a black man fly a plane? But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the…. mind-set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man’s job. I sat back in my seat, and chided myself for such thoughts……”

Can you guess who the author is?