October 2nd

The International Day of Nonviolence was commemorated on 2 October. The international community chose this day as a tribute to the leader and pioneer of the philosophy of nonviolence, Mahatma Gandhi, as it was the day of his birth. Violence…

We take with us “understanding”, “peace”, “respect”, “knowledge”, and “change us first”. With these expressions, the workers of Grupo Salud y Vida and the educators of the Child Development Centres, who attended the warm and festive meeting-workshop for the Inauguration…

Active Nonviolence is the force that will transform the world On 15 June 2007, a UN resolution established 2 October every year as the International Day of Nonviolence, in recognition of Mahatma Gandhi, who contributed to the world with a…

On the International Day of Nonviolence, October 2nd, the 3rd World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be officially presented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies in Madrid, which will debut in San José, Costa Rica, on the same date…

October 2nd marks the World Day of Nonviolence, the anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian Independence movement. For Gandhi, it was a question of not submitting to the subjugation that led to the suffering…

In commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, the International Day of Nonviolence is celebrated on October 2nd. Beyond the enormous historical and moral significance of India’s anti-colonial emancipation through a massive and courageous popular struggle with a non-violent methodology, it is…

12 years ago, a group of humanists in Quito, Ecuador articulated as Espacio No Violento (Nonviolent Space) took the decision to convene organisations to make visible the nonviolent initiatives they had been implementing; thus, a first public, open and inclusive…

This article is also available to download in Hindi (PDF) In 2007, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly established the 2nd of October, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, as the “International Day of Nonviolence”. This year, we celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of…

Millions of Colombians remember what we were doing on 2 October 2016 at four o’clock in the afternoon. The predictions, the fears and the hope; so many dreams, so many resurrections pending a result. That afternoon it became clear that…

During the last Congress of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) held in Berlin, Pressenza asked the participants to take a selfie with four of the historical “fathers” of Nonviolence: Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Marthin Luther King and Silo. Just…