If you want to create a world without violence, you have to get there without violence. You have to anticipate your goal in the course of your action.

Margrit Albers was co-founder in 1980

We wanted to combine political education with nonviolent action in a region immediately affected by conflict.

Founding member Wolfgang Hertle about the beginning 40 years ago

International cooperation must not be a one-way street where we Europeans impose our own concepts and methods upon the rest of the world. What really matters is an exchange at eye-level and mutual cross-fertilisation.

Until 2002, Hagen Berndt significantly shaped the KURVE Wustrow