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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
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>Ria Could you post this on the Ragging Grannies email
>list and COAT?
>Angela
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>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
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________
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