A few workshop materials
Nonviolence in your daily life
The Violence Spectrum Exercise
3 faces of violence (Galtung triangle)
Some Nonviolence Quotes
7 misperceptions and reasons to use NV
Nonviolandia: create your own Nonviolent community (also see the drawing below).
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (by Gene Sharp)
Center for Non-Violent Communication (and this PDF on the 4part_nvc_process)
Cross word puzzle to enhance ‘Peace Literacy’
For podcasts go here
Articles
Some websites for articles/news about peace & nonviolence are:
- Waging Nonviolence
- The Nonviolence Newsletter
- Satyagraha Foundation
- Samen Voor Vrede (Dutch – ‘Together for Peace’)
A few specific recommended articles are:
8 ways to defend against terror nonviolently (Article by George Lakey, on Waging Nonviolence)
Why Nonviolence is about Changing Situations, not other People (by Rivera Sun, Waging Nonviolence)
A look at the newest additions to the nonviolence canon
Mary Elizabeth King on Civil Action for Social Change, the Transnational Women’s Movement, and the Arab Awakening (Interview by Nina Koevoets for Theory Talks)
How I learned to debunk common misperceptions about Nonviolence (Nina Koevoets, Waging Nonviolence, 2020)
Acknowledging the system of violence (PDF by Nina Koevoets)
‘Love the Forest’ inspires children to act from a place of love and connectedness Metta Center, on Waging Nonviolence,
What Has to Win is Life (Nina Koevoets, Peace Voice, 2023)
We Live in a Dangerous Time (speech for Youth Peace Summit, June 2025)
In Dutch:
Interview met Nina Koevoets, De Linker Wang, door Kathinka Minzinga
Nina Koevoets: “Charles Eisenstein zegt dat geen enkele actie klein is” (door Cees Veltman)
Geweldloosheid in (Zuid) Soedan. Vredesmagazine, interview met Jacob Aluong door Nina Koevoets
Websites/ Organizations
For educational materials:
see Pace e Bene and their Mainstreaming Nonviolence Campaign, as well as Metta Center for Nonviolence and Training for Change. For more strategic materials go to Albert Einstein Institution (founded by Gene Sharp).
For Nonviolent Communication go here and for NVC games see the GROK website.
For Peace education in schools look at this school in the USA and the Schools for Peace in The Netherlands (in Dutch).
For an excellent number of historical examples:
see this Nonviolent Database of the Swarthmore college
For organisations about third party conflict intervention see:
Nonviolent Peace Force, Peace Brigades International, and Christian Peace Maker Teams
For some communities where nonviolence is a core value see:
The Arch Communities (“communauté de l’Arch” in France based on Gandhi’s philosophy), Plum Village (founded by Buddhist monk Tich Nath Han, also in France), or look for communitites at the Global Ecovillage Network, such as Findhorn (Scotland), Tamera (Portugal) or Auroville (India).
Key Videos
Find more videos on our separate page.
Films
Nonviolence Hero’s:
- A Long March to Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
- Invinctus (Nelson Mandela)
- Selma (M.L King)
- Gandhi
- Taking Root (Wangari Maathai)
- The Lady (Aung San Suu Kyi)
Social movements/protest
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Liberia)
- Singing Revolution (Estonia)
- Budrus (Palestine)
- Five Broken Cameras (Palestine)
- A Force More Powerful (4 short films)
- Every Day Rebellion (Egypt, Ukraine, Iran and others)
A few books
You can also order these Children’s Books from me (both English and Dutch).
Recommended to: an exciting nonviolence adventure series about the girl Ari Ara, by Rivera Sun.
Last but not least, study this map from World Beyond War
Peace Power 