nonviolence

Faith Leaders and Organizations Call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine

SIGN ON STATEMENT: As people of faith and conscience, believing in the sanctity of all life on this planet, we call for a Christmas Truce in Ukraine. In the spirit of the truce that occurred in 1914 during the First

November 14, 2022 No Comments

FOR-USA plans for the 2022 IFOR Council in South Sudan

In November 2022, Fellowship of Reconciliation members from around the world will assemble in Juba, South Sudan for a historic gathering of our 108-year-old movement. Every four years, our global Fellowship comes together to share, learn, and strategize about nonviolence

October 6, 2022 No Comments

Gathering Voices

Gathering Voices is a live, monthly zoom conversation series in which FOR-USA engages with activists and thought leaders. This homepage for the live conversation series will include upcoming events as well as recordings of our past live conversations. This is a continuation

September 6, 2022 No Comments

Ukraine: Faith Organizations Call U.S. to Support Diplomacy and Creative Nonviolent Resistance

Press Release More than 20 national and regional faith-based organizations have sent a letter to President Biden and members of Congress urging support and focus on a kind of diplomacy that is willing to compromise for the sake of saving

April 25, 2022 1 Comment

Confronting the Juxtaposition Between Self-Defense and Nonviolence

By Jason Carson Wilson Russian President Vladimir Putin’s thirst for power has brought death and destruction to his country and Ukraine’s innocent citizens alike. Russian sons head to war with neighbors, while civilians at home stand up to true tyranny–risking

March 24, 2022 3 Comments

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

On Mother’s Day morning, 2018, I thought back on my two extraordinary grandmothers who raised me, on my own mother who followed me into the War Resisters League as together we became peace activists, on my life partner and mother of my

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Honoring Mothers by Risking Arrest with the Poor People’s Campaign

May 24, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

{Ed. Note: The recent death of Gene Sharp, the renowned strategist and thinker on active nonviolence, provokes us to newly consider his writings and teachings. René Wadlow revisits an essay he originally wrote during the period of the Arab Spring revolutions,

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Self-Liberation: Is There Any Other Kind?

February 14, 2018 No Comments

Complicating Narratives: The 2018 FOR Pacific Northwest Conference

Oregon Fellowship of Reconciliation is excited to announce programming for the annual Northwest U.S. regional FOR conference this coming summer, June 30 to July 3, 2018. Please see details below about this year’s “Complicating Narratives” theme, for which the program

February 6, 2018 No Comments