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Organization: Center for Nonviolence, St. Bonaventure University
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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade?

Progress would perhaps best be measured by numbers of students enrolling courses.  Interest in courses in nonviolence has remained at a fairly substantive level for a school of 2400 students.  We have approximately 30-40 students enrolling each semester in courses in nonviolence.  Another 35 students enroll in a course that is not explicitly a course in nonviolence but that nonetheless acquaints students with nonviolence.

OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?

The most important obstacle in the way of progress is a lack of funding for more professors to teach in the program and a lack of funding to provide for programming in addition to courses, e.g. conferences, speakers, advertising.

ACTIONS: What actions have been undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?

We do not celebrate the International Day of Peace.   The Center for Nonviolence sees it chief goal as that of education in nonviolence, a long-term effort without obvioously measurable consequences in the very short term.

ADVICE: What advice would you like to give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade?

Provide micro-grants and micro-funding for new and existing organizations.  Focus on nonviolence rather than peace.  Even military organizations say that they are for "peace."  But it is the means that must be peaceful, not only the ends.  Do not fund organizations simply because they say that they are for peace; fund only those that employ only nonviolent methods.

PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the global movement for a culture of peace?

We have partnered with these groups:  Concerned Philosophers for Peace; The Gandhi-King Society of the American Philosophical Association; the Fellowship of Reconciliation;  the Peace and Justice Studies Association; and The Acorn:  Journal of the Gandhi-King Society.

PLANS: What new engagements are planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)?

We are tentatively planning a conference for 2006 of all former students in the program.  We are also expecting to continue the current course offerings in the program and expand them somewhat.

Postal address of organization

P. O. Box 107
St. Bonaventure, NY  14778
U.S.A.

E-mail address of organization

bgan@sbu.edu

Website address of organization

http://www.sbu.edu/go/academics/arts-and-sciences/interdisciplinary-programs-and-initiatives/nonviolence/index.htm

Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace

Education for a culture of peace

Second priority action domain of a culture of peace

Sustainable Development

Highest priority country of action (or international)

United States

Second priority country of action (or international)

International
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