From The Miseducation of a Twenty Something . . .
"I think that’s the key thing here. Youth need to be hopeful. They need be hopeful because they ARE tomorrow’s peace-builders. We CAN inspire change, and we CAN change the state of this world."
Read the full post.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Updated Presenters and Workshop List
Check out the updated Presenters and Workshop List!
Peace.
PJSA 2010 Youth Summit Coordinating Committee
Peace.
PJSA 2010 Youth Summit Coordinating Committee
Monday, September 13, 2010
George Lakey and Karen Ridd Nonviolent Direct Action Workshop
The PJSA 2010 Youth Summit Coordinating Committee is proud to announce that George Lakey and Karen Ridd will be co-facilitating a workshop on Peacebuilding Through Nonviolent Direct Action.
From Training for Change:
George Lakey, 67, is the direct
or of Training for Change. He began his career as a trainer at the Martin Luther King School for Social Change, and has since gone on to lead over 1000 workshops on five continents. He has run trainings for coal miners, therapists, homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri Lankan monks, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking steel workers, South African activists, and others. Trained as a sociologist, he has taught at the college and graduate level and is the author of six books. He consults regularly with a wide range of nonprofit groups.
Also from TFC:
Karen Ridd is an instructor in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College, where her courses include "Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies" and "Nonviolent Social Change". She is the former training coordinator for the Resolution Skills Centre of Mediation Services, a conflict resolution program in Winnipeg. Karen has designed and led workshops for young people, teachers, labor leaders, Cambodian Buddhist monks, Thai farmers, Mohawk activists, and Bangkok human rights workers. She is a professional clown and has years of experience working in health care. She's also worked in El Salvador and Guatemala, where she provided protective accompaniment for human rights leaders threatened with assassination. In addition to her mediation work, she is a freelance consultant on nonviolent activism, non-competitive games, communication skills, and conflict resolution.
From Training for Change:
George Lakey, 67, is the direct
or of Training for Change. He began his career as a trainer at the Martin Luther King School for Social Change, and has since gone on to lead over 1000 workshops on five continents. He has run trainings for coal miners, therapists, homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri Lankan monks, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking steel workers, South African activists, and others. Trained as a sociologist, he has taught at the college and graduate level and is the author of six books. He consults regularly with a wide range of nonprofit groups.Also from TFC:
Karen Ridd is an instructor in Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College, where her courses include "Introduction to Conflict Resolution Studies" and "Nonviolent Social Change". She is the former training coordinator for the Resolution Skills Centre of Mediation Services, a conflict resolution program in Winnipeg. Karen has designed and led workshops for young people, teachers, labor leaders, Cambodian Buddhist monks, Thai farmers, Mohawk activists, and Bangkok human rights workers. She is a professional clown and has years of experience working in health care. She's also worked in El Salvador and Guatemala, where she provided protective accompaniment for human rights leaders threatened with assassination. In addition to her mediation work, she is a freelance consultant on nonviolent activism, non-competitive games, communication skills, and conflict resolution.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Carolyn Nordstrom to speak to PJSA 2010 Youth Summit
The PJSA 2010 Youth Summit Coordinating Committee is proud to announce that anthropologist Carolyn Nordstrom from the University of Notre Dame will speak to the PJSA 2010 Youth Summit following dinner on Friday evening.
From the PJSA Conference plenary speaker bio page:
"A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, Carolyn Nordstrom is an anthropologist at home in lecture hall and war zone alike. She studies wars, the illegal drug trade, gender relationships, and war profiteering. Her research has made her an eyewitness and scholar of worldwide urban and rural battlefields as well as of the shadowy worlds of diamond, drug, and arms smuggling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing, she has written dozens of articles, and several books including Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World; Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century; A Different Kind of War Story; Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Stories of Violence and Survival, and The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror. “I have studied the ways in which people gain the necessities to wage war and create peace, and how people pay for these services,” she once said. “Drugs, precious gems, human labor and sex are routinely used in international black markets to purchase everything from guns and computer-based weapons systems to antibiotics and food. The integrity of my ethnographic research and the safety of those among whom I work have rested on having to delete basic data, which erases the extra-legal from public discourse. I want to develop a form of creative non-fiction that explores the lives of real people working in this complex, extra-legal network without revealing their locations.”
And here's a spot from UND:
From the PJSA Conference plenary speaker bio page:
"A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, Carolyn Nordstrom is an anthropologist at home in lecture hall and war zone alike. She studies wars, the illegal drug trade, gender relationships, and war profiteering. Her research has made her an eyewitness and scholar of worldwide urban and rural battlefields as well as of the shadowy worlds of diamond, drug, and arms smuggling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing, she has written dozens of articles, and several books including Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World; Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century; A Different Kind of War Story; Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Stories of Violence and Survival, and The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror. “I have studied the ways in which people gain the necessities to wage war and create peace, and how people pay for these services,” she once said. “Drugs, precious gems, human labor and sex are routinely used in international black markets to purchase everything from guns and computer-based weapons systems to antibiotics and food. The integrity of my ethnographic research and the safety of those among whom I work have rested on having to delete basic data, which erases the extra-legal from public discourse. I want to develop a form of creative non-fiction that explores the lives of real people working in this complex, extra-legal network without revealing their locations.”
And here's a spot from UND:
Adam Mazo to present "Coexist" project at PJSA Youth Summit
As part of the PJSA 2010 Youth Summit, Adam Mazo will be presenting his documentary "Coexist" and follow-up workshop on Friday afternoon.
From the Coexist website:
"The documentary film, Coexist tells the stories of trauma survivors searching for ways to coexist with their loved ones’ murderers. As killing continues in Rwanda today and the government forces citizens to consider reconciliation, we examine the varied paths survivors choose when forced to face enemies and former enemies every day. In a world where innocent people are regularly attacked or killed because of who they are, we challenge you: how can Rwandans experiences inform efforts to build peaceful coexistence, eliminate hate crimes, and prevent all types of violence?"
From the Coexist website:
"The documentary film, Coexist tells the stories of trauma survivors searching for ways to coexist with their loved ones’ murderers. As killing continues in Rwanda today and the government forces citizens to consider reconciliation, we examine the varied paths survivors choose when forced to face enemies and former enemies every day. In a world where innocent people are regularly attacked or killed because of who they are, we challenge you: how can Rwandans experiences inform efforts to build peaceful coexistence, eliminate hate crimes, and prevent all types of violence?"
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