Living With the Wolf: Walking the Way of Nonviolence

New Book Chronicles Pace e Bene’s Twenty Year Experiment with the Power of Nonviolent Change

Since 1989, Pace e Bene has led six hundred workshops on the tools of nonviolent change; created study programs used by people around the world; and participated a range of social movements, from defending the human rights of homeless people to protesting war and torture.

Now Pace e Bene has published a book that highlights this journey. Living With the Wolf: Walking the Way of Nonviolence features 50 essays, interviews, and poems published by Pace e Bene since founding two decades ago.

Edited by Peter Ediger, Living with the Wolf takes its title from the story about Saint Francis brokering a peace agreement between a medieval Italian town and a marauding wolf. In this spirit, the book explores the vision, power, and principles of nonviolence; reflects on the nonviolent path that members of the growing Pace e Bene community have taken; and presents examples of applied nonviolent action, training, and practice responding to the realities and challenges of the past twenty years.

Commenting on this new book, long-time peace activist Elizabeth McAlister, writes:

“Through 20 years of prayer and praxis, Pace e Bene has learned and taught that if we would transform our most destructive cultural patterns, nonviolence must be deeply rooted spiritually, reside at gut level and be embodied in a style of life. Pace e Bene was founded with the instinct that this might be the moment in history for a radical shift to nonviolence. Over the years, through national and international workshops and trainings, the community has prepared activists in a nonviolence that is relevant, has immediacy and produces visible results. This book sounds some of the notes of this all important history. If the new age we so long for is to dawn, if our new American administration is to fulfill any of the hopes people have placed in it, the work of Pace e Bene needs to continue and deepen and multiply.”

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