Non-Violence (sculpture)

Non-Violence
Non-Violence
	The sculpture at the United Nations headquarters in New York City
Artist	Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
Year	1985
Type	Sculpture
Location	New York

Non-Violence^[1] is a bronze sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd of an oversized Colt Python .357 Magnum revolver with a knotted barrel and the muzzle pointing upwards. Carl made this sculpture after singer-songwriter and peace activist John Lennon was murdered.^[2]

There are currently 16 copies of the sculpture around the world, ten of them in Sweden. They are located in:

Location	City	Country
Bagers plats	Malmö	Sweden (original)
United Nations Headquarters	New York City	USA (original)
European Commission	Kirchberg	Luxembourg (original)
Chaoyang Park	Beijing	China
Federal Chancellery	Berlin	Germany
Sergelgatan	Stockholm	Sweden
Kungsportsavenyen	Gothenburg, SE-O	Sweden Outside Lilla Samskolan, Föreningsgatan, Gothenbourg, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Anna Lindh park	Borås, SE-O	Sweden
Mémorial de Caen	Caen	France
Olympic Museum	Lausanne	Switzerland
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront	Cape Town	South Africa
The Museum of Sketches	Lund, Malmö	Sweden
Roslagsbanan station	Täby, Stockholm	Sweden
Fittja metro station	Stockholm	Sweden
Åkeshov metro station	Stockholm	Sweden
Brogatan	Halmstad	Sweden
Kasernplan	Landskrona	Sweden

The Museum of Sketches in Lund, Sweden holds a sketch of the firearm on which Reuterswärd noted that his grief at the murders of Lennon and Bob Crane inspired him to design this artwork.

The sculpture has been the symbol since 1993 of The Non-Violence Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes social change through violence-prevention education programs.