EDUCATION FOR PEACE .
An email received from Sami Awad, Co-Director of Nonviolence International
Last year I joined NVI as Co-Director, stepping in the productive shoes of David Hart, and this year we have added staff members Zoya Craig as Director of Operations and Finance and Bianca Peracchi, as Coordinator of Programs and Communications. NVI previously never had more than 3 core staff people.
In the past, much of our work focused on fiscally sponsoring courageous grassroots organizations around the world. Many of these courageous groups, such as the Freedom Flotilla, are too politically frightened to be sponsored by others. That work continues and remains essential.
But this year, we stepped into a new chapter: NVI is shifting back to become a global hub for nonviolence training, leadership development, understanding collective trauma, and strategic support for movements resisting violence, oppression and injustice.
As much as the Palestinian cause envelopes my life, I, like my uncle Mubarak, who founded Nonviolence International, want nonviolence and our powerful tools to be globalized.
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Can peace be guaranteed through nonviolent means?
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If you care about nonviolent resistance in Palestine, we hope you will join us to support nonviolent resistance in other places such as Syria, Sahrawis, Kashmiris, West Papuans, Rohingyas and many other locations. We recently re-energized the Western Sahara Solidarity Committee and had two of our staff members deported by Moroccan occupation agents.
This shift means more impact and it also means we need your support more than ever.
Will you help us reach 100 monthly donors so we are able to do more?
This is the future of Nonviolence International: to be and grow as the backbone and a training center, a leadership incubator, a global movement connector, and a support system for communities resisting climate chaos, militarism, racism, gender violence, and economic inequality, with courage and vision.
By the way, I hope to see you in 2026. I am planning to travel widely to promote the work of NVI and also my new book, Sacred Awakening. If you are interested in having me speak or train in your area let me know soon. Thank you for believing in this work. Thank you for believing in what is possible.
In peace,
Sami Awad
Co-Director
Nonviolence International
P.S. We have a few slots open in our Nonlinear Leadership Training that I am leading beginning January 10th. We have participants from all over the world.
Nonviolence International
https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/
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