SOA Watch seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Ft. Benning, Georgia through vigils, fasts, demonstrations, nonviolent action and media and legislative strategies. Pace e Bene has led numerous nonviolence trainings for SOA Watch.
This campaign organizes nonviolent witness at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona which houses the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School (USAICS), which trains US military personnel in torture techniques. PeB founder Friar Louis Vitale served five months in prison for taking nonviolent action at Ft. Huachuca.
WAT organizes nonviolent action to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, end torture and indefinite detention, and stop extraordinary rendition by the U.S. government. Pace e Bene has endorsed WAT’s 100 Days Campaign, which seeks to end torture as policy and practice.