Creating nonviolent options for our lives and for a sustainable, just, and peaceful world

Most of us want happiness and security. Dignity and fairness. Peace and the resources to survive. A life that is meaningful. We want these things for ourselves — and for our children, our community, and our world.

Yet we live in a world fraught with harrowing violence that threatens each of these precious realities. How are we to live fully in the face of this destruction and injustice? And how can we create a world that is more sustainable, just and peaceful? Are passivity or retaliation our only choices?

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service explores a third way: the path of powerful, creative, and nonviolent living.

• Nonviolent living is a way to explore and create this fullness in our lives, our societies, and throughout the planet;
• Nonviolent living is a way of life that puts into practice the power of compassion, cooperation, connection, and concerted action; and
• Nonviolent living does this by creating nonviolent options in the face of the choices we often think we are limited to: compliance or counter-violence.

Pace e Bene’s Engage Program highlights four key dimensions of nonviolent living:

To explore each of these more deeply, we invite you to get a copy of the Engage Book — and consider taking, or hosting, an Engage Workshop