Sproat, Kezia

Trained in both engineering & law, John Townsend Looney (1916-2005), sold his successful machine tool business in Wadsworth, OH in 1970 so he could work fulltime to prevent nuclear war. He organized both the Ohio Nuclear Freeze & the NE Ohio Office of the American Friends Service Committee, & recruited several NE Ohio church groups to help develop & test a nonviolence course for adults. Alternatives to Violence is an intensive comprehensive conflict resolution course. Looney & Danene Bender of Akron incorporated a nonprofit, Peace Grows, to promulgate this course, which has been taught to comm...