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From: Jan Heynen <j.heynen_-at-_eyecan.ca>
To: no-to-nato <no_to_nato_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 23:32:10 -0400
>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:18:35 -0400 (EDT) >From: Angela Pinchero <pincherobehave@yahoo.ca> >Subject: Ria, can you repost this? >To: m.heynen@eyecan.ca >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-SPAM-Check-Host: clearmail.cyberus.ca >X-DCC-Cyberus-Metrics: mx01.cyberus.ca 1085; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=10.0 > tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 > version=2.42 >X-Spam-Level: > >Ria Could you post this on the Ragging Grannies email >list and COAT? >Angela >----------------------------------------------------- > > > >Peace by Piece, a local Ottawa initiative of concerned >citizens for conflict transformation, has organized a >weekend of presentations, discussions and a workshop >on issues that affect our local and global >communities. The event is divided in two parts: a >Public Forum (free and open to all) and a more >intensive two-day Workshop limited to forty (40) >participants (registration is required and a >registration fee is applicable). > >Public Forum: > >Empowering People and Communities for Peacebuilding >and Social Justice:Challenging the Spread of and >Corporate Globalization > >where: Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch >120 Metcalf at Laurier Avenue W. >when: Friday October 18, 2002 >7:00 p.m -10:00p.m. > >Both events will feature Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen >as guest speaker and workshop facilitator. Mr. >Jacobsen is founder and director of PATRIR, the Peace >Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania and >co-director of Transcend, a network of more than 200 >of the world's leading practitioners and scholars in >peacebuilding and development from over 60 countries >around the world. > > >Workshop: Tools for Empowerment & Transformation: >Rethinking How We Look At Conflict > >where: Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, >221 Nelson St. at Rideau St. > >when: Saturday and Sunday, >October 19 and 20, 2002 > >cost: $50.00 waged $25.00 students and non-waged >with a limited number of subsidies are available; >please advise contact person if a subsidy is required > >Please registration as soon as possible as there is >limited spaces, a vegan/vegetarian lunch will be >provided on both days > >Workshop participants will explore methods for >transforming direct, structural and cultural violence >through peaceful means. Based upon experiences in more >than 40 countries, the training program will develop >skills, tools and knowledge for conflict >transformation, outlining concrete challenges and >opportunities for working to overcome violence and >injustice, while empowering people and communities for >active peace work and social struggle. Each >participant will receive the Transcend training >manual-adopted by the United Nations as its official >training manual-as a workshop training aid and >reference manual. > >For further information please contact / pour de plus >amples renseignements veuillez contacter: Nancy Lauder >tel : (613) 591-1027 e-mail/courriel : >n.lauder@sympatico.ca > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca >