{"id":27444,"date":"2021-04-13T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence-draft\/?page_id=27444"},"modified":"2021-08-11T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:40:47","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The URI Center for Nonviolence &amp; Peace Studies was initially conceived in 1998 by a group of three faculty and staff\u2013Professor Charles Collyer, Abu Bakr, and Professor Art Stein\u2013who shared a common interest in promoting and studying approaches to addressing conflict through nonviolence. As this concept developed they met and discussed the idea with <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/center-founder-bernard-lafayette\/\">Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr<\/a>.,&nbsp;a renowned civil rights activist who had been conducting nonviolence trainings in Providence. Subsequently, with the support of then URI president Robert Carothers, Dr. LaFayette was appointed as a distinguished scholar at the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vision was broadened to include nonviolence and peace, resulting in the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies in 1999. Within a short period of time a number of interdisciplinary faculty and staff members joined as advisory members of the Center and were referred to as Center Conveners and Co-Conveners: Dr. Lynne Derbyshire, Dr. Cynthia Hamilton, Dr. Sylvia Peters, Ms. Gail Faris, Ms. Linda Palazzo, and Dr. Paul Bueno de Mesquita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A legacy of peace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on this&nbsp;original vision, the Center serves as a keeper of an important legacy of nonviolence&nbsp;inspired by Dr. King and handed down by Dr. LaFayette.&nbsp;The work of the Center has continued under the leadership of Dr. Paul Bueno de Mesquita since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The URI Center for Nonviolence &amp; Peace Studies was initially conceived in 1998 by a group of three faculty and staff\u2013Professor Charles Collyer, Abu Bakr, and Professor Art Stein\u2013who shared a common interest in promoting and studying approaches to addressing conflict through nonviolence. As this concept developed they met and discussed the idea with Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-27444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28476,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27444\/revisions\/28476"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}