Summer Institute 2007 at URI
The University of Rhode Island's Center for Peace and Nonviolence Studies held its 2007 Summer Institute in Kingian Nonviolence during the weeks of July 8-20, 2007.
Dr. Bernard Lafayette, hero of the Civil Rights Movement and Director of URI's Center for Peace and Nonviolence Studies, continues his most noble mission of fulfilling Dr. King's dream by institutionalizing the teaching of Kingian Nonviolence.
Forty-five participants from Palestine, Nigeria, Liberia, Tanzania, and from across the United States spent two inspiring weeks studying the philosophy, methodology, and history of Nonviolence as developed by Mohatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They learned how Nonviolence is not just a tactic of the past but that it is relevant and essential for wise leadership and reconciliation of conflicts from international affairs to family affairs. They are now prepared to go into their communities and present Nonviolence as a creative and forceful antidote to violence and apathy in the face of injustice.
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