One Non-Governmental Organization ( NGO ) widely considered to have great expertise in general peacemaking by non-governmental volunteers or activists is the Nonviolent Peaceforce.

Its non-violent methods have been adopted by other movements such as the World Peace Brigade, Nonviolent Peaceforce, Swaraj Peeth and the Rainbow Family of Living Light.

” The mission of Nonviolent Peaceforce is to promote, develop and implement unarmed civilian peacekeeping as a tool for reducing violence and protecting civilians in situations of violent conflict ..” Its Vision is “ a world in which large-scale unarmed civilian peacekeeping using proven nonviolent strategies is recognized as a viable alternative in preventing, addressing, and mitigating violent conflicts worldwide.

By the end of the conference, they together with other activists from the Netherlands and Germany who shared their vision were planning for a Nonviolent Peaceforce.

Nonviolent Peaceforce is registered in the US as a 501 ( c )( 3 ) organization and in Belgium as an AISBL and was given a Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Nonviolent Peaceforce is an international network formed by some 60 member organizations from all continents.

To train its peacekeepers, NP developed an elaborated curriculum, initially based on the trainers manual ” Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention / Opening Space for Democracy ” by George Lakey and Daniel Hunter.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

Nonviolent resistance is no less noble than carrying out a suicide operation.

Marshall Rosenberg ( born October 6, 1934 ) is an American psychologist and the creator of Nonviolent Communication, a communication process that helps people to exchange the information necessary to resolve conflicts and differences peacefully.

He is the founder and former Director of Educational Services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international non-profit organization.

He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Center for Nonviolent Communication's office is located.

While Rosenberg is most well known for his work with conflict resolution through his system of " life-serving " Nonviolent Communication ( NVC ), he has also made education reform a major component of his work.

Nonviolent Communication ( NVC ) ( also called Compassionate Communication or Collaborative Communication ) is a communication process developed by Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s.

The aim of Nonviolent Communication is then to steer the conversation back towards the needs, feelings, and perceptions, until the discovery of strategies that allow everyone's needs to be met.

" I think it is important that people see that spirituality is at the base of Nonviolent Communication, and that they learn the mechanics of the process with that in mind.

Bowling Green State University Professor Ellen Gorsevski, in assessing Rosenberg's book, " Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion " ( 1999 ), in the context of geopolitical rhetoric states that " the relative strength of the individual is vastly overestimated while the key issue of structural violence is almost completely ignored.

Also covered is the involvement of the Communist Party in the movement, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Freedom Riders, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party.

Among others, Dee is a member of Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ), the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

He is member of the European Parliament and President of the Nonviolent Radical Party.

Nonviolent means of resistance began to take place of armed rebellions and the most prominent organization was the Taiwanese Cultural Association ( 台灣文化協會 ), founded in 1921.

Class Identity politics were first described briefly in an article by L. A. Kauffman, who traced its origins to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), an organization of the civil-rights movement in the USA in the early and mid-1960s.

* The Center for Nonviolent Communication nonprofit international organization

Prior to his days as a leading member of the Yippie movement, Hoffman was involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), and organized " Liberty House ", which sold items to support the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States.

His activism in the civil rights movement included involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), of which he was named chairman in 1967.

While he wrote about the movement, Baldwin aligned himself with the ideals of the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).

* 1965-Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D. C., with about 25, 000 protesters

In the PBS video We Shall Overcome, Julian Bond credits Carawan with teaching and singing the song at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, N. C., in 1960.

It was organized by black and white Mississippians, with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and Council of Federated Organizations ( COFO ), to challenge the legitimacy of the white-only US Democratic Party.

Nonviolent mass marches demanded the right to vote and the jails filled up with arrested protesters, many of them students.

In early 1965, at age 18, he dropped out of the University of Illinois to work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of work Rosenberg was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960s.

* Interview with Marshall Rosenberg about Nonviolent Communication in close relationships

While CNVC offers some trainings, most Nonviolent Communication trainings are offered by trainers either acting independently or sponsored by NVC organizations which are allied with but with no formal relationship to CNVC.

Dexter Scott King served as president of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, but resigned in 1989 only months after taking the office after a dispute with his mother, Coretta Scott King.

It also highlights the relationship between Daniels and then Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee member Stokely Carmichael, with whom he shared a cell.

James Bevel, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a sermon in Ruleville, Mississippi and followed it with an appeal to those assembled to register to vote.

He joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( then known as Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration ) along with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Palmer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the son of a musician and school teacher, Robert Palmer Sr. A civil rights and peace activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, the younger Palmer graduated from Little Rock University ( later called the University of Arkansas at Little Rock ( UALR )) in 1964.

From his days in the U. S. Civil Rights Movement as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, through demonstrating in the streets of Budapest as ambassador, to marching with the students in Belgrade against Slobodan Milosevic in 1996, he has witnessed and practiced the power of organized nonviolent force in achieving freedom and justice.

In 1946 Houser, along with Dave Dellinger, Igal Roodenko, Lew Hill, and others, helped found the radical pacifist Committee for Nonviolent Revolution.

King left the SCLC in January, 2004 to serve as president and chief executive officer of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change with his brother, Dexter Scott King serving as chairman.

As word of King's murder in Memphis, Tennessee spread on the evening of Thursday, April 4, crowds began to gather at 14th and U. Stokely Carmichael, the Trinidad and Tobago-born activist and Howard University graduate, had parted with King in 1966, and had been removed as head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1967, but led members of the SNCC to stores in the neighborhood demanding that they close out of respect.

Randolph and fraternity brother John Lewis would later be involved with the ′ 63 March on Washington, Randolph as a key organizer and Lewis as a speaker representing the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).

* April 17, the Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), a civil rights activist group, led the first of several anti-war marches in Washington, D. C., with about 25, 000 protesters.