One year ago, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service published Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living, a study program for learning, practicing and experimenting with the power of creative nonviolence to transform our lives and our world.

2000 Engage books have been sold in its first year of publication, shipped to individuals and groups across the world as far as Australia, Nigeria and Turkey.

Engage has been widely recognized as a highly creative and adaptable resource for learning and practicing nonviolence. John Stoner of Every Church a Peace Church writes that Engage “invites the participant to use her or his own senses, creativity, courage and skills. It suggests, as is true, that the territory has not all been mapped and charted. There are new things to learn when it comes to humanity, conflict and nonviolence!”

Another strength of Engage is found in the stories of nonviolence from past and recent history. Jon Rudy, teacher at a Peacebuilding Institute in the Philippines, welcomed the “stories both big and small of nonviolent actions [which] form the basis of exploratory learning. The wisdom gleaned from years of successful active nonviolence change is an integral part of this manual.”

Several groups using the Engage book as a resource are the Holy Names Franciscan Province; the Unitarian Universalist Association; Pax Christi; and Congregations for Renewal. Please contact us if your organization may be interested in partnering to bring the Engage process to your community.

Pace e Bene continues to encourage groups to use the Engage process for experimenting together in active nonviolence. To learn more about the book, see our Engage resource page.