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INSTITUTE FOR NONVIOLENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
2019-2025 Impact Report
Our Shared Legacy: The Power of Community
Founded in 2019, the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice (INSJ) is the leading university-based research, teaching, and advocacy center dedicated to investigating and furthering nonviolence education in the context of Jesuit community-based service and the intergenerational legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We study, teach and promote Dr. King's philosophy and practice of interfaith nonviolence and civil resistance to overcome injustice, to preserve our democracy, and to secure human rights for all.
Letter From the Director
It has been a great honor to have co-founded the USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice (INSJ) with Dr. Clarence B. Jones in 2019, and to have served as the institute’s director since 2020.
Dr. Jones and I are immensely grateful for the generous support of USF leadership, faculty and staff colleagues, our students and student interns, our community partners throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, and over 2,500 donors, without whom our work and outreach would not have been possible.
Your dedicated partnership has enabled us to convene transformative nonviolence education programs here at USF, and to help empower grassroots community, religious, refugee, peace, and human rights organizations—in San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, and abroad, in Burkina Faso, Burma, Colombia, El Salvador, and Israel/Palestine. We warmly welcome your continued support and participation as we move forward to realize the beloved community Dr. King envisioned and called us to forge and sustain.
Jonathan D. Greenberg
Director, USF Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Our Community
Meet the students, faculty, staff, clergy, and partners driving the mission of peace and justice at the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
Passing the Baton
Civil rights icons unite at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands to pass the baton to the next generation and honor the 90th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Carrying Forward Nonviolence and Social Justice
INSJ remains dedicated to MLK's vision of a world grounded in nonviolence, justice, and human dignity.
Faculty Fellowships
Going forward, USF will appoint three USF professors as INSJ Faculty Fellows, each with a dedicated student assistant, throughout each academic year.
Celebrating Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Dr. Clarence B. Jones, founding director emeritus of the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice, continues to be recognized for his lifelong commitment to civil rights and social justice.
Clarence B. Jones Award for Kingian Nonviolence
The award honors activists, scholars, and artists who have carried forward the principles and methods of nonviolence.
Our Founding Document
Read the joint statement of the historic gathering of veteran civil rights leaders and current social justice leaders at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, Jan. 15, 2019.
Voices of the Movement
Civil rights icons share their lessons in courage, love, and nonviolence — handing the movement’s torch to a new generation.
Joan Baez
INSJ Gathering, "The Power of Community," May 31, 2025
I've been committed to nonviolence my whole life because nothing else makes sense.”
Joan Baez
INSJ Gathering, "The Power of Community," May 31, 2025
Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice
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San Franciscio, CA 94117
San Franciscio, CA 94117