Unveiling of Custom-Designed WNBA Mystics “Knotted Gun” Sculpture and 988 Lifeline Awareness Amplified in Sold-Out Capital One Arena as Washington Mystics Hosted Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever.
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Non-Violence Ambassador Meja and Swedish rock band Peace Conspiracy are releasing their new video to spread hope in troubled times.
Melissa LaBozzetta, an Italian-Australian artist based in Melbourne, becomes a new Global Ambassador for the Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVPF) supporting unique educational programs to prevent and reduce violence around the world. She joins other fellow Non-Violence Ambassadors for Peace: Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Ringo Starr, Oona Chaplin, Johan Ernst Nilson, Patrizia Gucci and many others.
There is one thing I noticed after completing a series of workshops on the topic of sexual harassment with University students – everyone just wants more! More time to discuss, more time to share, to think, more time to challenge beliefs, more time to spend together and juggle with some obvious and not-so-obvious topics and unclear lines.
The City of Belfast has been warmly welcomed into an illustrious group of locations around the world that have embraced The Knotted Gun sculpture and its supporting organisation, the Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVPF).
1 BILLION CHILDREN worldwide experience physical, sexual or emotional violence. (1) We need to put an end to violence in the world and teach young people, our future leaders, how to resolve conflicts peacefully.
Most people are willing to talk about what external violence does to us or the world. We are all horrified to hear about another war, about another sexual abuse, about another incident of bullying. When is the world finally going to change, to evolve into something better and more peaceful? Very few talk about internal violence.
Since 2016, the optical company Smarteyes has collaborated with the non-violence organisation The Non-Violence Project. The collaboration has resulted in four eyewear collections, about 100,000 pairs of glasses sold and SEK 5 million to The Non-Violence Projects work.
Have you ever been bullied? You know, either sexually bullied, hit, laughed at, excluded, felt alone or rejected? I have. And so has every 1 in 3 students (13-15 y.o.) worldwide. (1)
This March 8th, we want to pay tribute to all those women who have believed in equality, who have seen in the future the possibility of improving the world for them and those who come.
The World Masters Games 2021 Kansai Organising Committee (hereinafter referred to as "WMG 2021") and the Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVPF), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate during the 2021 Master Games in Kansai, Japan.
Swedish explorer, philanthropist and adventure activist Johan Ernst Nilson becomes Global Non-Violence Ambassador thanks to his strong engagement in The Non-Violence Project Foundations work globally.
On the occasion of October 2nd, The International Day of Non‐Violence and the Lebanese National Day of Non-Violence, the universal "sculpture of non‐violence", by the Swedish artist CARL FREDRIK REUTERSWÄRD has been unveiled in the first Arab capital, Beirut.
For autumn/winter 2018, Weekday will launch a comprehensive collaboration with Non-Violence Project (NVP), a non-profit organisation that promotes solving conflicts without violence through educational programs. The partnership consists of two parts: a newly formed network of spokes- persons for peace and a collection that enables Weekday customers to promote peace in their daily life.
Blaise Oberson heads a foundation recently established in Geneva, which educates young people to eradicate violence.
ROME- Patrizia Gucci has crafted her own version of the internationally renowned symbol for the Non-Violence project foundation. As the only Gucci family member currently working in design today, she has redesigned the knotted gun created by artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward in 1980 which is on display outside the headquarters if the United Nations in New York City.
I år är det 30 år sedan den världskända fredssymbolen ”The knotted gun” inrättades utanför FN-byggnaden i New York. I samband med 30-års jubileet lanserar nu Non Violence Project nya designsamarbeten på den symboliska revolvern. Acne For Peace heter den första designen som tagits fram av Acnes Jonny Johansson.
More than 25,000 pupils are to benefit from a new project to combat violence in schools in eastern Uganda The Non-Violence Project Foundation’s (NVPF) education project was launched this month with the aim of stopping youth violence in the country and more students being murdered in schools. Article by Billy Briggs for Their World, April 05 2018
250 schools, 2500 teachers, 25 000 students with a total of 250 000 people in communities will be engaged in The Non-Violence Project Foundation (NVPF)'s educational project in Uganda, thanks to the financial support from the City and the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland.
The Non-Violence Project Foundation empowers people with creative tools and skills to cultivate awareness and understanding of non-violence, enabling them to overcome violence, leading to a virtuous cycle of positive impact. We believe that knowledge is power, and that creativity can help unlock the full potential of this power through skill-based learning and learning tools that are more engaging, impactful, and relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow.
We have educated more than 9 million people on five continents since the organisation was founded in 1993 in Switzerland. Our education programs and outreach initiatives have won several awards for best practise. President Obama awarded NVP the ”President’s Call to Service Award” in 2011. Other awards include the Presidential Daily Light Award, received by President Bill Clinton, the Paul Harris Fellow Award given by Rotary International, the American National Safety Council Award for best practise and the Weed & Seed Award given by US Justice Department in 2009.
It is thanks to our 30-year legacy, symbol of the Knotted Gun, innovative methods, and a growing community of change advocates like you that we can shape a more peaceful and non-violent world.
We are a non-profit based in Geneva, Switzerland, but operating globally, which means you can join us wherever you are.
For more information about us and our initiatives please visit www.nonviolence.com or contact us at admin@nonviolence.com
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