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​Prof. Michael Nagler is the special guest at the Iranian Nonviolence Initiative's Feb. 5 event

1/31/2023

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In our last issue of Justice Rising, Ingeborg Breines wrote about  "Neighbors as Friends Not Enemies," the person-to-person diplomacy project that seeks to bring people from Nordic countries and Russia into dialogue. If you were moved by this story, you'll be happy to know that it is not the only instance of peacebuilding at the grassroots level. In fact, a new initiative seeks to "de-demonize" across another divide: Iranian and American, and to promote non-violence within Iran itself.

The recently founded "Iranian  Nonviolence" (IN) initiative has been meeting weekly online to talk and learn about non-violence as an ethically evolved collaborative and peaceful approach to human interactions and to managing conflicts. These Sunday gatherings are held on the online Clubhouse mobile application. Participants in these live bilingual (English-Persian) waging-peace "rooms" include Iranians both in and outside Iran--and also those who do not speak Persian (Farsi). 

The guest at the group's upcoming session on Sunday, Feb. 5,  is Prof. Michael Nagler, founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. The Center helps people develop, sustain, and deepen their commitment to nonviolence globally, and has Special Consultative Status at the United Nations.

The session starts at 1 p.m. Eastern time. 

The meetings hope to establish a bilingual forum within which Iranian people (especially inside Iran) can build on the heritage of non-violence found in their culture and poetry to engage in peace-building, especially with American people.

For more information, including how to connect on Clubhouse, visit 
Iranian Nonviolence's web page. 
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