Resources-AVP Related Organizations
Organizations which incorporate AVP, support AVP programs, or include AVP programs among other programs they do.

  • Help Increase the Peace Program (HIPP) - a youth-oriented program using a modified AVP program, with their own manuals, and separate training to staff their program. > GO to AFSC/HIPP web site.
    HIPP was developed by the American Friends Service Committee staff in Syracuse, New York, in 1991 as a youth-oriented program to address the epidemic of violence in schools. HIPP is based on the conviction that nonviolence and participation in our communities can better each of us and our world. ¶-Workshops focus on three themes: options to violence; dealing with racism, prejudices, and our differences; and the belief that we can each participate in our communities to bring about positive social change.
    • Evaluation on Participants’ Satisfaction to the “HELP INCREASE THE PEACE” Workshop held at Caritas, Tuen Mun Marden Foundation Secondary School, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, 26 December to 30 December 2007 > GO


    • Evaluation on Participants’ Satisfaction to the “HELP INCREASE THE PEACE” Workshop held at Breakthrough Village, Shatin for Students from Baptist and Zhongshan Universities’ Social Studies Departments, Hong Kong 7th to 13th January, 2008 > GO


    • Evaluation on Participants’ Satisfaction to the “HELP INCREASE THE PEACE” Workshop held at Caritas, Wong Yiu Nam Centre, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, 1 January to 5 January, 2008 > GO


  • American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - a Quaker Friends organization initiating and supporting the creation of peace and better environment worldwide, including AVP & HIPP > GO to AFSC web site.


  • Friends Peace Teams (FPT) - A Quaker Friends organization initiating and supporting the creation of peace and better environment worldwide, including AVP > GO to FPT web site.

    • African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) - an Initiative of FPT in Africa > GO to AGLI web site.


    • Conscience Studio - an Initiative of FPT in Indonesia > GO to Conscience Studio web site.


    • Peacebuilding in the Américas - an Initiative of FPT in Colombia and Central America & the Caribbean > GO to Peacebuilding in the Américas web site.


  • Centro de Estudios Para La Paz (CEPPA) - An organization located in Costa Rica, operating AVP-based and other programs for thousands of people in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Perú, México y Nicaragua. > GO to CEPPA web site.


  • Urban Visions - a merger of AVP and Aikido, doing "I-Key" workshops in several dojos > GO to Urban Visions web site.
    from the Mission Statement "Urban Visions, Inc. is in the business of transformation of organizations and people in the interpersonal and the ecological arenas. It aims to develop, use and replicate non-violent methods of interaction-verbal, physical, and ecological-for management, education and training. To do this Urban Visions, itself, models cooperative and effective management."
  • Non-Violence Project USA (NVP-USA) - a youth-oriented organization offering workshops in Florida, USA, with their own training (which includes AVP training), and which works with thousands of youths in the Miami area > GO to NVP-USA web site.


  • Friends for a Non-Violent World (FNVW) - a Quaker-inspired organization which supports AVP activities > GO
    FNVW is a Quaker-inspired organization of people who share a commitment to advancing nonviolence as an ethic and strategy for achieving peace and justice. FNVW provides educational programming and strategies for ending violence and building justice and peace in our local and global community.
  • Phaphama Initiatives - a resource center and supporter of programs promoting equality and respect in Africa, including AVP > GO to Phaphama Initiatives web site.
    The organisation operates as a resource centre that supports a large and growing community of connected partners and external service providers. We work in ways that inculcate the principles of equality and respect for all. Our training is experiential and designed to empower all stakeholders, no matter what their background, to become their own trainers and take responsibility for their own development, within a structure that provides broad long-term support.
  • Pronica - an organization sponsoring programs for the betterment of Nicaragua > GO to Pronica web site.
    ProNica’s priorities are on community cohesiveness and economic development, training in non-violent procedures, health, education, agriculture and women’s empowerment. We seek to link in solidarity Nicaraguan people with concerned individuals internationally to promote understanding and mutual action. Education of those, both in the U.S. and Nicaragua, who seek information or to be of service is part of our mission.
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