Thursday, September 11, 2008 through Sunday, September 14, 2008

at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

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For four days, hundreds of  people of all ages and many backgrounds will gather to participate in workshops, panels, dialogues, play-shops and other activities focusing on inspirational and practical applications of nonviolence in the following 14 areas of human life:

The common thread that weaves together each of the activities at the conference is the vision that the philosophy and practice of nonviolence can serve as a universal value for organizing all facets of human life.  Our aim is to provide conference attendees with a sense of hope, purpose, and meaning, rooted in the practical and useful applications of nonviolence. 

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Schedule of workshops available soon!

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Our Message

Nonviolence is effective

Nonviolence can be simple and easy

Nonviolence is working everywhere

You get win-win-win-win results from nonviolence

Nonviolence can be fun

Nonviolence uplifts the human spirit

Nonviolence heals the source of the problem

Nonviolence can be a way of life

Vision and Hopes for the 2008 Conference

• To provide participants with a sense of hope, purpose, and meaning by focusing on practical, easy, and useful ways of incorporating nonviolence in one’s daily life so as to support the vision of a peaceful world.  We envision participants coming away from the conference equipped with a toolbox of techniques for nonviolent living which they can use to dismantle despair and build a culture of peace and justice.
• To exchange dreams, hopes, visions, insights, inspirations, and aspirations.
• To increase awareness and build lasting friendships and connections based on the understanding that nonviolent action builds community.  Nonviolence encompasses many values such as love, harmony, interrelatedness, exchanging individual and collective wisdom, productive communication, bonding, shared intention, collective experience, co-education, bridge-building, coalescence, and synergy. We all offer pieces of the truth and all have something to contribute.
• To create a sense of community among a multitude of organizations by providing ample opportunities for networking among likeminded participants working towards nonviolence in some area of human life.   The four day immersion in the future we are creating will concentrate and amplify our collective energy.
• To facilitate individual journeys from despair to empowerment and positive action  by providing opportunities for acknowledging/honoring despair, grief and mourning, as well as offering safe spaces for overcoming fear, and for conflict resolution, healing, redemption, restoration, and restitution.
• To facilitate an understanding of holistic, nonviolent social change and to increase awareness of how participants might more effectively become involved in such change through offering fresh clarity about successful, proven programs in nonviolent conflict resolution.  One hope is that conference participants will gain greater clarity about the role of their actions in the context of global social change.
• To re-energize the existing nonviolent movement, by re-motivating and re-energizing individuals and organizations. To support powerful contributions to nonviolent social change based on moral courage, selfless leadership, and committed participation.
• To bridge the old and the new by facilitating participants in forming new alliances, new ideas, new strategies, new ways, new awareness, new tactics, new convictions, new friends, new commitments. 
• To introduce the usefulness of nonviolence as a way of life to those who may have not used it in their lives before.
• To provide a lot of fun through numerous celebratory, inspirational activities designed to inspire plenty of humor and laughter!