At Metta, we are helping people around the world practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively.
What is Nonviolence?
Nonviolence is a powerful force rooted in human dignity. As a constructive power, it’s unleashed when potentially destructive drives like fear or anger are converted into creative equivalents like love and compassion.
Nonviolence, when harnessed systematically and in an experimental, scientific spirit, can be used as a force for realizing greater security, justice, and social unity.
At Metta Center, we draw from research, lived experience, and global traditions to help individuals and communities deepen their understanding and practice.
“Nonviolence is more than putting another person in power. It's about awakening a different kind of power in people.”
~Prof. Michael Nagler, Metta Center’s founder
What is nonviolence? How does it work? What can I do?
Resources
Nonviolence Studies 2026
Explore key themes in nonviolence while building community with other nonviolence seekers.
“Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”
~Gandhi