Sister Paulette Schroeder, a Sister of St. Francis and leader of Project Peace in Tiffin, Ohio, will address “The ‘Moral Courage’ Needed to Live Nonviolently” in Bluffton University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Forum, on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

Free and open to the public, her presentation will begin at 11 a.m. in Bluffton’s Founders Hall.

Schroeder, a former member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Palestine, asserts that only through collective nonviolence efforts is there hope of reversing a “downward spiral” of violence in society. She cites King’s reference to the “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism” in an April 1967 speech opposing the Vietnam War, and his call for the same “moral courage” in working for truth and nonviolence in each of those areas affecting the human good.

Also a former teacher and social worker, Schroeder is involved with nonviolence training for both adults and children through Project Peace.