{"id":59452,"date":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-nonviolence-center-wins-national-peacemaker-award\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:00:00","slug":"uri-nonviolence-center-wins-national-peacemaker-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/uri-nonviolence-center-wins-national-peacemaker-award\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 nonviolence center wins national peacemaker award"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAward praises 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s unique nonviolence training programs for international scholars, activists, public officials<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Oct. 16, 2014 \u2013 Activists from throughout the world come to the 溏心vlog免费B站 every summer to learn how to bring peace to hostile communities. <\/p>\n


\nThe program is a big success, and one of the reasons 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for NonViolence & Peace Studies won the 2014 \u201cNational Peacemaker of the Year\u201d award from Interfaith Paths to Peace, based in Kentucky.<\/p>\n


\nThe Interfaith organization singled out the 溏心vlog免费B站 center for its unique training programs in which international scholars, activists and government officials attend a two-week summer program about how to resolve conflicts peacefully.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe were deeply honored to be recognized,\u201d says Paul Bueno de Mesquita, the center\u2019s director. \u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful recognition of the center\u2019s work \u2013 and our summer training institute.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nTerry Taylor, Interfaith\u2019s director, praised the center for its outstanding work offering training and certification in nonviolence and peace education practices.<\/p>\n


\n“The center’s training draws people from throughout the United States and world, many from different religions and faith traditions,\u201d Taylor says.

\n\u201cThese individuals then apply those nonviolent practices to their communities and countries, where many of them shape a peaceful and nonviolent future for their fellow citizens.”<\/p>\n


\nThe award was presented to Bueno de Mesquita Sept. 26 at the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Community Center in Louisville. Bueno de Mesquita spoke about \u201cGandhi and King: Sowing the Seeds of Peace\u201d during the daylong event.<\/p>\n


\nPrevious winners of the annual award include the International Compassionate Cities Movement, the Patterson School of Diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.<\/p>\n


\nInterfaith Paths to Peace is a nonprofit organization that strives to make Louisville, the country and the world more peaceful by offering programs aimed at increasing interfaith understanding. <\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s nonviolence center was founded in 1998 by three faculty and staff members \u2013 Charles Collyer, Abu Bakr and Art Stein \u2013 who wanted to study and promote ways to settle disputes peacefully. Civil rights activist Bernard LaFayette was the center\u2019s director until 2009.<\/p>\n


\nMore than 500 people have attended the International Nonviolence Summer Institute since it started 13 years ago and earned certification as nonviolence trainers. Nearly 70 people \u2013 a record number \u2013 went last summer. Participants were from 16 countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Liberia, Nigeria and Tibet.<\/p>\n


\nBueno de Mesquita is especially proud of several certified trainers who took what they learned back to their countries. Ahmadullah Archiwal, of war-torn Afghanistan, courageously conducts nonviolence trainings in Kunar Province, and Leonardo Prieto, of Venezuela, a country plagued by gun violence and political turmoil, leads nonviolent sessions for school and community groups. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIn the past two years, Prieto has probably trained at least 2,500 people,\u201d says Bueno de Mesquita. \u201cHe\u2019s doing an incredible job over there.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBesides training sessions, the center, located at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Multicultural Center, also offers an interdisciplinary minor for students, as well as workshops on compassion and inner peace and academic courses on Buddhist history, culture and philosophy. <\/p>\n


\nThe center also reaches out to the community. For the last seven years, the center has led a team of 溏心vlog免费B站 students in providing the \u201cSecond Step Violence Prevention Program\u201d in Central Falls. \u201cWe have made a real significant difference in one of the neediest communities in Rhode Island,\u201d says Bueno de Mesquita, \u201cby strengthening the positive development of all kindergarten children.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\nPictured above: left to right, Paul Bueno de Mesquita, director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, Kay Johnson, the center\u2019s education coordinator, and Terry Taylor, director of Interfaith Paths to Peace in Louisville, Ky. Photo courtesy of Paul Bueno de Mesquita.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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