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 director 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.