Since 1976, RCNV has hosted thousands of conversations among activists, including these speakers, performers and workshop leaders. A variety of those are listed here:
- Gihan Abouzeid (Egyptian feminist activist)
- Pietro Ameglio (Gandhian Mexican activist)
- Bettina Aptheker (feminist, professor, author)
- Uri Avnery (Gush Shalom)
- Mubarak Awad (Nonviolence International)
- Joan Baez
- Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies)
- Daniel Berrigan (Jesuit priest/activist/poet)
- Jackson Browne
- Helen Caldicott (physician/anti-nuclear activist)
- Mandy Carter (National Black Justice Coalition)
- Cesar Chavez
- Dorothy Cotton (civil rights leader)
- David Crosby
- John Dear (activist, author, former priest)
- Danilo Dolci (poet/Gandhi of Sicily)
- Jim Douglass (“Resistance and Contemplation,” “The Unspeakable,” activist),
- Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin (Israeli/Palestinian Bereaved Families Circle)
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Paul Engler, co-author of “This is an Uprising”
- Adolfo Perez Esquival (Nobel Peace Prize laureate)
- Norman Finkelstein (author/activist/political scientist)
- Robert Fisk (journalist)
- Arun Gandhi (M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence)
- Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Monk, author)
- Myles Horton (Highlander Center)
- Kenneth Kaunda (former President of Zambia)
- Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix (Tariq Khamisa Foundation)
- Naomi Klein (author/economist)
- Dennis Kucinich
- James Lawson (civil rights, nonviolent action trainer)
- Barbara Lee (Member of Congress)
- Michael Lerner (rabbi, Tikkun)
- Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams (Nobel Peace Prize laureates)
- John McCutcheon
- George McGovern
- David McReynolds (War Resisters League)
- Camilo Mejia (military resister/activist)
- Michael Nagler (Metta Center for Nonviolence, author)
- Daoud Nasser (Palestinian farmer)
- Grace Paley (poet)
- Miko Peled (Israeli author “The General’s Son”)
- Bonnie Raitt
- Afif Safieh (Palestinian diplomat)
- Ahmed Salah (Egyptian activist)
- Ira Sandperl (Gandhian, founder Institute for Study of Nonviolence)
- Gene Sharp (“The Politics of Nonviolent Action”)
- Lee Swenson (anarchism theorist, war resister)
- Jim Wallis (Sojourners, author)
- Howard Zinn
- Nomika Zion (Israeli leader Other Voice)
- Stephen Zunes (peace studies professor, author)