Non Violence

Joann Perry is a volunteer facilitator with Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP).  AVP is an international, national and local organization dedicated to holding workshops about non-violence training, communication, conflict resolution and general life skills in the schools, community and prisons. Joann came to embrace pacifism as a life vision and principle just before adolescence and finds service one of the best ways to fulfill the demands of active non-violence.  More than half a century of life experience in a variety of settings, from business to education to Rwanda to parenting to a developing art career has convinced her that violence is a daily issue for all of us, more subtle for some than others, but the inner struggle to ‘do right’ instead of eliminating the problem by any means necessary is one every individual confronts constantly. Joann appears with Freddie Bell.