The Peace Lab at Open Door is a week-long intensive teaching the concepts and skills of nonviolent social change. We bring people together across geography, race, class, identity, and faith—because real peacemaking requires diverse perspectives in the same room, actively figuring it out. This isn't just theory; it’s learning how to use your voice, relationships, and power to challenge injustice, because staying quiet isn't peace.

Our participants study nonviolent resistance by active roleplaying, dialogue, role play, and by visiting places where history changed, and they see how past decisions shape current injustices.

Your support helps us train a new generation of nonviolent changemakers.

We invite you to join us in this investment.

See a video recap of the latest Peace Lab we ran in summer of 2026.