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.

Nonviolent Peaceforce ( NP ) is a nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping organization with the goal to protect civilians and reduce violence in areas affected by armed conflict.

” 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 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.

* The Center for Nonviolent Communication nonprofit international organization

At this meeting the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) was formed.

Many members came from the Committee for Nonviolent Revolution, which had been formed two years before.

In 1961, Forman joined and became the executive secretary of the then newly formed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

In 1961, Phi Beta Sigma brother James Forman joined and became the executive secretary of the then newly formed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

While at Spelman, Zinn served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and wrote about sit-ins and other actions by SNCC for The Nation and Harper's.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had moved its headquarters to Greenwood in early 1963, and by late March of that year, eight SNCC members were arrested while trying to register voters.

Alongside histories of the Civil Rights and Black power movements which concentrate their attention on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and the Black Panther Party, the book by Georgakas and Marvin Surkin focus on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as a significant expression of black radical thought and activism amongst auto-workers in the 1960s.

In the political sense, the march was organized by a coalition of organizations and their leaders including: Randolph who was chosen as the titular head of the march, James Farmer ( president of the Congress of Racial Equality ), John Lewis ( chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ), Martin Luther King, Jr. ( president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ), Roy Wilkins ( president of the NAACP ), Whitney Young ( president of the National Urban League ).

" by Bill Weinberg, Nonviolent Activist, Nov – Dec 2005.

* To hear a definition of empathy given by Marshall Rosenberg ( Nonviolent communication ), through a parallel between empathy and surf.

Hampton joined the Party and relocated to downtown Chicago, and in November 1968 he joined the Party's nascent Illinois chapter — founded by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) organizer Bob Brown in late 1967.

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.

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.

SCLC and Dr. King were also sometimes criticized for lack of militancy by younger activists in groups such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ) who were participating in sit-ins and Freedom Rides.

King ’ s policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ).

* TruceWorks A conflict resolution website influenced by his Nonviolent Communication Theory

The Center for Nonviolent Communication ( CNVC ), founded by Marshall Rosenberg, has trademarked the terms NVC, Nonviolent Communication and Compassionate Communication, among other terms, for clarity and branding purposes.

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.

* Kwame Ture, the name adopted by Stokely Carmichael, a Trinidadian-American black activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party to honor Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sékou Touré

* Nunn, Maxine Kaufman ( 1993 ) Creative Resistance: Anecdotes of Nonviolent Action by Israel-based Groups Alternative Information Center

Honky was adopted as a pejorative in 1967 by black militants within Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) seeking a rebuttal for the term nigger.

* Nonviolent Atonement and the Victory of Christ Nonviolent Atonement by Brad Jersak ( Orthodox / Anabaptist )

Sit-ins, non-violent demonstrations, and Freedom Rides were among the actions that had been taken by the Congress of Racial Equality ( CORE ), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ), Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ), and other organizations.