About Us
Pace e Bene Australia was established in early 2006 as an associated body to the US-based Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. It is a registered nonprofit association.The primary activity of Pace e Bene Australia is to facilitate the Engage, From Violence to Wholeness and Traveling with the Turtle workshops around Australia. We have facilitators in every state and territory except Tasmania and NT. You can find out about planned workshops in your area by visiting the workshop schedule, or contact the nearest member of the steering committee to discuss the workshops and how we can support you – either by facilitating a program for your community or just providing some advice on how to do it yourselves.
We will be producing an occasional newsletter called PACE OZ! with information on recent workshops and activities around the country. You can view past issues and catch other news here.
We are also collecting a list of resources with Australian content for Engage and From Violence to Wholeness, including liturgies, songs, famous nonviolent activists and case studies of nonviolent action campaigns. Please feel free to browse this list, and also to contribute your own suggestions!
Peace Interactive - the Pace e Bene Australia blog
We now have a blog site for interactive discussion by facilitators (with space for comments from everyone else) about their experiences running the programs, tools and resources they recommend to other facilitators, and general reflections about nonviolence. Check out the blog here.
Pace e Bene Flyers
You can download general information flyers to leave or hand out at your church or organisation, with local contact information for each state:
Get our Emails
If you would like to receive occasional information about upcoming events and workshops, sign up for our email lists. Please be sure to indicate your state or territory (so we deliver relevant news) and if possible say a few words about yourself so we know who we are blessed to work with!
Partly thanks to the recent visit of Fr John Dear sj from USA, the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence has been getting a lot of media attention lately. Check out a few highlights:
The Gospel of Nonviolence - ABC recording of public lecture by John Dear and Dorothy McRae-McMahon (1 hour; streaming audio from ABC)
John Dear interviewed on ABC Radio (33 mins; 11.4mb mp3, external link)
Jarrod McKenna, Pace e Bene facilitator from WA, on Christianity, Violence and Nonviolence (30 mins; 10mb mp3, external link)
Simon Moyle, Pace e Bene facilitator, on the US-Australian war games in Queensland in June, and the nonviolent response (10 mins; 3.5mb, external link)