Alternatives To Violence Project
The Alternatives to Violence Project, or AVP, is a network of volunteer groups whose goal is to reduce violence by providing workshops in which people can learn nonviolent methods of resolving conflict.
AVP was started in 1975 by a group of inmates at Green Haven Prison working in collaboration with New York Yearly Meeting Quakers. It spread throughout the prison system, and eventually into main-stream society.
AVP workshops have been offered many times during NYYM's summer sessions.
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