Education for active nonviolence for the world to come (Photo: Henri Oscar Communication, active nonviolence workshop, Historical character of nonviolence) The world is changing at a dizzying pace, and people can no longer hold on much of what they believed until now. The acceleration of events is generating crisis, instability and disorientation in every society. New criteria of citizenship arise and various events put pressure on education system. While it’s obvious that educational institution established in the past aren’t adapted to the world to come. Today no one disputes the fact the changes in societies throws the old institutions and methods into profound crisis. While the crisis contains the possibility of opening ourselves to new perspectives. Theses perspectives, once put into project may allow us to evolve toward a more human society characterized by solidarity, nonviolence and freedom. But at the same time others voices are also being raised pushin...