The Ashland Center for Nonviolence’s first conference aims to respond seriously to challenges, questions, and objections to nonviolence. Our keynote speaker, Robert Brimlow of St. John Fisher College and author of What About Hitler?, will consider the challenge about nonviolence in the face of injustice. Although the concept of nonviolence is often considered only in relation to political and international matters, we expect to also host presentations that consider the challenges to nonviolence in the nation, in communities, in families, and in personal relationships. The conference is interdisciplinary and will consider challenges from a variety of areas, whether practical or theoretical, such as religion, business, education, the social sector (e.g. family), arts and entertainment, government, and media.

Ashland University is affiliated with the Brethren Church, an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in and one of several groups that traces its origins back to the Schwarzenau Brethren of Germany.

https://www.ashland.edu/cas/ashland-center-nonviolence/acn-conference-2015