Nationwide – Between September 21 and October 2, 2025, tens of thousands of people will participate in over 5,300+ nonviolent actions to protest violence, war, poverty, racism and environmental destruction as part of the 12th annual Campaign Nonviolence Action Days.
Stretching between the International Day of Peace (Sept 21) to the International Day of Nonviolence (Oct 2), the annual effort rallies numerous national, international, and local groups to ‘build a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction’.
Amidst concerns about gun violence, mass shootings, political violence, climate crisis, rising authoritarianism, war and genocide, Campaign Nonviolence brings people together in solidarity to work for an end to violence in all its forms. Local groups work to dismantle direct, structural, and systemic forms of violence using the tools of active nonviolence. Each group takes action on a different aspect of the broad vision, addressing issues such as immigration, discrimination, environmental destruction, health, poverty and more.
Campaign Nonviolence organizers affirm and advance the many viable nonviolent alternatives that exist, such as community safety teams, conflict resolution skills, peacebuilding, demilitarization, racial justice, restorative practices, self care, sustainability, renewable energy, living wages, civil resistance, and much more.
For 2025, people are invited to join the theme of “practicing nonviolence toward self, others, world, and earth”. The campaign calls for a range of nonviolent actions, including self care and wellness (self), community safety teams and violence de-escalation trainings (others), protests and visibility actions (world), and divestment from fossil fuels and weapons (earth). Two additional calls invite people to bring anti-militarism and anti-war leaflets to International Day of Peace events and to hold nonviolence teach-ins on Oct 2, the International Day of Nonviolence.
Collaborating organizations include: Sandy Hook Promise, Nonviolent Peaceforce, 350.org USA/Make Billionaires Pay, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, SunDay, Cure Violence, World BEYOND War, International Cities of Peace, ICAN, DC Peace Team, Backbone Campaign, Global Silent Minute, World Cleanup Day, Unity Earth, Jared’s Heart of Success, Nonviolent Cities Project, Catholic Nonviolence Days of Action, We the World, L.O.V.E. Is the Answer, World Wellness Weekend, Pax Christi International, Pax Christi USA, Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, United Religions Initiative, United4Peace, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, Pause the World For Peace, Pathways to Peace, and local Peace Day efforts like Peace Day Philly, Peace Week Delaware, and Arkansas Peace Week; and many more.
The annual action days highlight and uplift events such as:
– Move the Money Divestment Actions w/ 350.org’s Make Billionaires Pay & Draw the Line
– World Wellness Weekend’s thousands of self care and wellness events
– Cleanup actions in over 200 countries with World Cleanup Day
– Hundreds of schools breaking down social isolation and bullying with Start With Hello Week
– International actions to divest banks and governments from nuclear weapons with ICAN
– Dozens of global educational events to #CloseBases with World BEYOND War
– Creative teach-ins using Nonviolent History Coloring Pages in Princeton, NJ
– Pause the World For Peace’s Worldwide Silent Minute & Rally in Times Square, NYC
– A citywide pots-and-pans banging protest in Burlington, VT
– We Keep Us Safe – Fostering a Culture of Care gathering in Whatcom, WA
– Intergenerational peace walk in Milwaukee, MI
– A virtual summit and strategy plan for ending fossil fuel proliferation
– Silent vigil for ceasefire in New York City, NY
– Bystander intervention and Islamic Nonviolence training in Istanbul, Syria
– Community violence prevention teach-ins in Lilongwe, Malawi
– Over 100 peace education activities in Tamil Nadu, India
– 100-day mobilization for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
– Nonviolence and peacebuilding trainings for youth at schools in war zones in Cameroon
Through Campaign Nonviolence, historically separate movements are joining forces to tackle these many forms of violence and to build a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
Those looking to participate can sign-up on their website here: https://paceebene.org/action-days
Campaign Nonviolence was launched September 2014 with 230 nonviolent actions in every state in the nation. In 2024, over 5000 actions took place across the United States and around the world. It is coordinated by Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, a 36-year-old nonprofit that promotes nonviolence. More than 5,356 actions and events are planned for 2025 with more expected to be added in the lead-up to Sept 21.
For information on the national campaign, contact Rivera Sun at rivera@paceebene.org
Website: www.campaignnonviolence.org.
