There is a crucial connection between violence and the climate crisis, emphasizing the importance of nonviolent strategies in achieving sustainable ecological integrity.

Nonviolence has increasingly been seen as key to the survival of life on earth and to the healing of our planet. Nonviolence is a more effective response than violence or passivity to war and gun violence, to indifference and domination, or the structural violence of racism, economic injustice, ecological destruction [...]

Violence Violence is not only hitting someone or verbally abusing them. It is any physical or emotional harm, but also every form of injustice, experienced at all levels of our wounded world: personal, interpersonal, social, systemic, and worldwide. Violence destroys, dehumanizes, diminishes, and dominates billions of people and our fragile [...]

Gospel or active nonviolence is the mission of Jesus’ nonviolent love of friends and enemies. (Matthew 5:44, John 15:9-13) Nonviolence is a spirituality, a way of life, a method for change, and a universal ethic. It is at the heart of the Gospel, in which Jesus combined the rejection of [...]