Friends for a Non-Violent World
Friends for a Non-Violent World
Alternate Names: Friends for a NonViolent World
Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Duration: 1982 - current (Africa work known in the 1980s)
Friends for a Non Violent World (FNVW) is a Quaker-inspired organization of people who affirm the dignity inherent in each human being. FNVW share a commitment to advancing nonviolence as an ethic for honoring human dignity and a strategy for achieving peace and justice. Until April 2013 the name was Friends for a Non-Violent World (FNVW). In...
Friends for a Non Violent World (FNVW) is a Quaker-inspired organization of people who affirm the dignity inherent in each human being. FNVW share a commitment to advancing nonviolence as an ethic for honoring human dignity and a strategy for achieving peace and justice. Until April 2013 the name was Friends for a Non-Violent World (FNVW). In the 1980s FNVW was involved in a little anti-apartheid work including work in support of the struggle for intendance for Namibia and against apartheid in South Africa. FNVW worked with the Twin Cities Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa and the Minnesota Anti-Apartheid Legislative Coalition, (Source: FNVW, FNVW website including the Fall 2013 issue of its newsletter NonViolent Times, and FNVW material on this website.)
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