Youth Activists Movement
About the 2013 Youth Activist Movement Program
In 2013, we offered youth ages 13-21 the opportunity to receive 35 hours of professional training in nonviolence, conflict transformation, and leadership development between February 16-April 4.
Check out this video made about the 2012 Youth Activists!
The 2013 program included these incredible training opportunities (check out the photos below!):
- Youth Activist Movement Kick-Off
- Positive Peace Warriors 2-Day Training
- Anger Management (by Center for Dispute Settlement)
- Aikido as Nonviolence (by Aikido Kokikai)
- Interrupters Film & Violence De-escalation Training (by Pathways to Peace)
- Nonviolent Communication Training (by Gandhi Institute)
- Graduation at City Hall with special screening of participatory video projects!
Youth at the 2-day training on Dr. King's nonviolence
A small group works on defining violence at the Positive Peace Warriors training
Youth Activists at the Anger Management Session
Learning from Aikido Kokikai teachers how nonviolence can be embodied through Aikido!
April 4 Graduation at City Hall!
“The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
