Location: Rhode Island, USA

Level of Training: (Level I – 2008) & (Level II – 2009)

About:

In the summer of 2008, Bruce enrolled in the International Nonviolence Summer Institute at the University of Rhode Island. After successfully completing the two-week intensive training program in Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation, he was awarded certification as a Level I Nonviolence Trainer with the URI Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies.  He was the first officer working with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections ever to earn such a credential. In the summer of 2009, Bruce returned to URI to successfully complete the next stage of training and earned certification as a Level II Advanced Nonviolence Trainer, awarded to him by legendary nonviolent civil rights activist, Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. During his two summers of training, Bruce was a friendly and positive presence with everyone he met, but he especially enjoyed all of the international participants, with whom he became good friends