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SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE LOOKING AT THE IMPACT OF NVC

Many people over the years have studied the effectiveness of Nonviolent Communication in fields such as education, mental health, workplaces, justice, and family systems.  If you would like to learn more about where NVC has had a positive impact, please check out the academic research articles, doctoral dissertations, and masters thesis that appear on this page.

This research will be useful for anybody who is interested in the scientific evidence about the impact of NVC including journalists, business managers, university administrators, Certified Trainers and practitioners, and other researchers. Use the filters on this page to find the topics, years, and research types that are the most relevant to you.

We are grateful to all of the people who have served on the NVC Research Working Group since 2003 including Marion Little (the current leader of the group), Tom Caruso, Meiji Stewart, Kit Miller, and many others.  If you know about research related to Nonviolent Communication and you do not see it on this page, please fill out the form, “Add to Research Page” and we will review it.

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in English

Increasing Empathy and Conflict Resolution Skills through Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Training in Latino Adults and Youth

Nosek, M., & Durán, M. (2017)
in English

Effects of a Nonviolent Communication-Based Empathy Education Program for Nursing Students

A Quasi-Experimental Pilot Study

Sung J, Kweon Y. (2022)
in English

A civic engagement model of reentry

Involving community through service and restorative justice

Bazemore, G., & Stinchcomb, J. (2004)
in English

Nonviolent Communication

A Communication Tool to support the Adaptive Capacity of Organisations?

BONNELL, H., LI, P., & VAN LINGEN, T. (2017)
in English

Biodanza for kindergarten children (TANZPRO-biodanza)

Reporting on changes of cortisol levels and emotion recognition

Stueck, M., Villegas, A., Lahn, F., Bauer, K., Tofts, P., & Sack, U. (2016)
in English

Batterers’ intervention recidivism rates lowest known to date

anonymous (2014)
in English

Reliability and Validity of a Novel Measure of Nonviolent Communication Behaviors

Cheung, C. T. Y., Cheng, C. M.-H., Lam, S. K. K., Ling, H. W.-H., Lau, K. L., Hung, S. L., & Fung, H. W. (2023)
in English

Practicing koinōnia

Van Deusen Hunsinger, D. (2009)
in English

Creating Sanctuary

Reducing Violence in a Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Unit

Riemer, D. (2009)
in English

How to influence and improve peace negotiations and conflict resolutions by communication

A comparative analysis of nonviolent communication and strategic communication, applied to one case study

Ask, B. (2016)
in English

Nonviolent Communication

A dialogical retrieval of the ethic of authenticity

Nosek, M. (2012)
in English

Teaching peace by using nonviolent communication for difficult conversations in the college classroom

Koopman, Sara and Seliga, Laine (2021)