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Welcome to the Free 
Alternatives To Violence Course!

Here you will learn that many creative and constructive alternatives do exist to solve human problems without hurting or harming one another.

WHY 
the course?

Necessarily, this is only an overview. The course seeks to stimulate your interest for further study and practice in your own life. Though the principles for the creative, nonviolent resolution of conflict have long been established, few know of them and little has been done to teach and popularize their use in our culture.
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GOALS 
for the course

The goal is to learn those principles, techniques and skills for using alternatives to violence. Its purpose is not to make you nonviolent or pacifist. No course can do that nor is anyone completely nonviolent. But its goal is to provide you with additional choices for any situation you many need to resolve.
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GUIDELINES
for the course

1. Feel free to focus on your areas of interest. Choose from our personal guide or community, national, & global guide. 

2. Try the assignments to help personalize and internalize the material. 

3.
Join the forum and participate by reading the discussions and responding when comfortable. 

4. HONOR and RESPECT the opinion of others. No one is to "put down" another.

5. Eventually, try all twelve sessions for a holistic understanding.


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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Nonviolence is an attempt to find truth and love even in the midst  of hatred, destruction and pride."
-Dorothy Day


"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love." 
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence." 
-Cesar Chavez


“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” 
-Rachel Carson

  • Because our course uses videos from the YouTube host, related videos will appear following those suggested by the Alternatives to Violence Course. These related videos are not endorsed by our course. 
  • In this course writings by John Looney are excerpts from original articles under copyright in the 1995 edition of the ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE WORKBOOK. Materials revised March 2013, April 2015, July 2019.
  • The excerpts are read aloud in videos in most sessions and the original articles can be downloaded. If any part is quoted please give credit to the ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE WORKBOOK, 1995 and please refer to www.alternativestoviolencecourse.org.
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