 Dolci became convinced that education was the key to social progress.With the money he received for the Lenin Peace Prize in 1958, he founded the "Centro studi e iniziative per la piena occupazione" (Center of Research and Initiatives for Full Employment) in Partinico, the village in the Palermo hinterland that had become his home, and other towns on the island.In his community work Dolci "sought concrete methods of pedagogy and conflict resolution that would pave the way for a fully democratic and non-violent society."