Marshall Rosenberg

Marshall Rosenberg (1934 to 2015) was an American psychologist, mediator, author and teacher who developed nonviolent communication, a process for supporting partnership and resolving conflict within people, relationships and society. Born in Canton, Ohio, to Jewish parents and raised in Detroit, he was shaped by the 1943 Detroit race riot and by the antisemitism he met in his early life. He graduated from the University of Michigan and was trained as a psychologist at the expense of the State of Wisconsin, where a professor warned him that psychology and psychiatry mixed scientific and value judgments. From the early 1960s he developed his approach, worked worldwide as a peacemaker and in 1984 founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international nonprofit organization.