●AUNOHR will mark its history with both the dream and thought that underlay its founding, and the unprecedented legacy it was based on. Thus, it has enjoyed legitimacy and institutional uniqueness, and will be a model for the perpetuation of this legacy due to its subjective experience, students’ effort, professors’ expertise, and extended family.

●Definitely, it is the first institution of higher education that is launched specifically under the banner of nonviolence, and where programs that include courses, scientific specializations, and university degrees are devised.

●AUNOHR’s legitimacy is attributed to its founders, Walid Slaybi and Ogarit Younan.
They played a primary role in launching novel concepts, methodologies, publications, translations, trainings, practical and field work, all of which paved the way for devising curricula of both experimental and theoretical nature. This is how the curricula and courses came to light on solid educational, intellectual, and sociological ground while at the same time linked to the modern global legacy, and this is how AUNOHR defines itself: a fruit of life.

●When AUNOHR was founded, it was not intended to be merely a new university, but, as international non-violent thinkers remarked about the university’s legitimacy: “The founding of AUNOHR is a unique added value we have long waited for in the journey of nonviolence in the world."

The Founders
Mission and Objectives