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MDPI International Day of Non-Violence Webinar 2025

Name: MDPI International Day of Non-Violence Webinar 2025
Start: 2025-10-02T14:00:00
End: 2025-10-02T16:00:00

02 October 2025

14:00 (CEST)

Online

Welcome from
the chair

MDPI International Day of Non-Violence Webinar 2025

MDPI is excited to announce a special webinar in celebration of International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October 2025. This important event aims to promote the principles of non-violence as articulated by Mahatma Gandhi, as well as encouraging global dialogue on building peaceful societies, fostering conflict resolution, and highlighting the role of civil resistance in achieving social change. The theme of the webinar will focus on exploring the role of non-violence in creating a just, peaceful, and equitable world.

Date: 2 October 2025
Time: 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 881 1335 9009
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com

Meet the Event Chair

Ms. Cheryl Lim

MDPI Marketing Assistant

Meet Our Speakers

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Dr. Marty Branagan

Associate Professor in Peace Studies, University of New England;
Dr Marty Branagan is Associate Professor in Peace Studies at UNE. Based on participant–observer research into nonviolent environmental, peace, social justice and artistic activism since the 1983 Franklin River blockade, his books include two illustrated novels, Horizontal Lightning and Locked On!, and the non-fiction books Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance, exploring ways of reducing the carbon bootprint of militarism; the co-edited Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conservation, Conflict and Co-existence; and in 2025 The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding. He works in rivercare and has created numerous art exhibitions and murals (often with Aboriginal artists).

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Palaver

Department of Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck;
Wolfgang Palaver is Professor emeritus of Catholic Social Thought at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he taught from 2002 until 2023 and where he was also Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty from 2013 until 2017. Currently, he is teaching Catholic Social Thought at the Philosophical–Theological College of Brixen/Bressanone, Italy. He is an expert on the relationship between violence and religion, and on Christian peace ethics. He is President of Pax Christi Austria and became in March 2025 Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions.

Prof. Dr. Dale T. Snauwaert

Professor of Philosophy of Education and Peace Studies, University of Toledo;
Dale T. Snauwaert, PhD, is Professor, Director of the Doctoral program in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education, the Graduate Certificate Program in the Peace and Justice Studies, and the Undergraduate Minor in Peace Studies in the Department of Educational Studies, University of Toledo, USA. He is the Founding Editor of In Factis Pax: Online Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice. He is the author of several books, including Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice: Toward a Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning, Exploring Betty A. Reardon’s Perspective on Peace Education—Looking Back, Looking Forward, Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice: Democratizing Justice in The World Tribunal on Iraq, with Janet Gerson, Human Rights Education beyond Universalism and Relativism: A Relational Hermeneutic for Global Justice, with Fuad Al-Daraweesh, Betty A. Reardon: A Pioneer in Education for Peace and Human Rights, and Betty A. Reardon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace, with Betty Reardon. His core interests are moral and political philosophy and educational theory, with a particular interest in meta-normative theory, theories of justice, democratic theory, peace education, democratic education, human rights education, the philosophy of nonviolence and corrective justice, and teaching through a pedagogy of reflective inquiry.

Dr. Mohamed Behnassi

Senior Environmentalist Expert, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) and Founding Director of the Center for Environment, Human Security and Governance (CERES);
Dr. Mohamed Behnassi is a full Research Professor of international law and politics of environment and human security. Currently, he serves as a Senior Environmentalist Expert at the Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (CESE), Rabat, Morocco. He is also the Founding Director of the Center for Environment, Human Security and Governance (CERES). He has a substantial publication and research record with a large number of books, scientific papers, and presentations at international conferences. In 2024, he was nominated as a Review Expert at the UNFCCC Roster of Experts (RoE) and a Member of the PRIMA Foundation Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC). He is continuously providing expertise to the IPBES, Medecc, and CNRST/Morocco, has organized several international scientific meetings, and managed many research and expertise projects on behalf of national and international organizations. He is also an independent CSR Senior Auditor.

Dr. Marwan Darweish

Associate Professor in Peace Studies at the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University, UK;
Dr Darweish's research focuses on nonviolent resistance, unarmed civilian protection, peacebuilding, and cultural heritage. He has worked across the Middle East and East Africa. He managed many large research and consultancy projects. His forthcoming book with Bristol University Press, set to be published in March 2026, is titled Unarmed Civilian Protection in Palestine.

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