Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence (virtual)

Event details

  • January 19, 2026
  • 2:00 pm
  • Virtual Event

Join On Earth Peace for an overview of Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation at 5:00pm ET / 4:00pm CT / 2:00pm PT on January 19th, 2026. Kingian Nonviolence is an approach to conflict and community leadership that offers values and methods useful for anyone who wants to use conflict constructively in your personal life, in group settings, or in community issues and building a reconciled world.

This 2 Hour webinar covers:

  • The 4 pillars of Kingian Nonviolence
  • Initial introduction to the 6 Principles and 6 Steps – the “Will” and the “Skill” of Kingian Nonviolence.
  • The Social Dynamics of Kingian Nonviolence

This training will be co-facilitated by Sherri Bevel and Mary Lou Finley:

Sherrilynn Bevel, PhD, is a Level III Kingian Nonviolence Trainer. She co-founded and is Associate Director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training. From 2018 through 2020, she was Director of Training and Special Projects for the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence in Providence. Sherri chairs the board of directors of The Diversity Think Tank, which seeks equity in academic hiring at state-supported institutions of higher education. In the classroom, she teaches political science, human rights, Nonviolence, and African American studies. In The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North (U. of KY Press, 2016), she documented the contributions of a youth-led campaign to end lead poisoning, which ultimately resulted in federal lead protection legislation; and argued that this aspect of the Chicago Freedom Movement was an important precursor to the modern environmental justice movement.


Mary Lou Finley served on the staff of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Chicago Project in the mid-1960s.   She is a sociologist and Professor Emerita at Antioch University Seattle and has  a lifelong commitment to social justice, working over the years on  racial justice issues and poverty as well as environmental issues and more.    She is the co-author with Bill Moyer and two others of Doing Democracy:  The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements, and the co-editor (with Bernard LaFayette Jr., James Ralph and Pam Smith)  of The Chicago Freedom Movement:  Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North (2016). She is a certified Kingian Nonviolence trainer and a co-founder of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training- Chicago.

Meet others interested in Kingian Nonviolence, build Beloved Community, and connect with On Earth Peace’s Kingian Nonviolence Learning Action Community!

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