Saturday, March 28th, 2009
The Interfaith Center for Peace is proud to bring Daniel Hunter of Training for Change to Columbus on Saturday, March 28th. Daniel has led diversity, nonviolence and strategy training for a wide range of activists and social change groups. He has done trainings on strategy and conflict transformation with various ethnic minorities in Burma/Myanmar, religious leaders in Sierra Leone and Indonesia, Naga activists in India, and environmentalists in Australia. In addition, he has worked with a range of labor, religious, peace and justice activist organizations in the United States and Canada.
Schedule of Events:
11:00 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Intensive Workshop (limited to thirty participants):
Beyond marches: creating tactics that use power
Some activists are scared of the word "power." Yet making social change requires us to move beyond our own circles and engage others. It even requires breaking out of routine tactics and into tactics that challenge the status quo. This workshop will be a chance to analyze the actions we are already doing, and assist into coming up with new tactics, appropriate to our current situations. More than just a strategy workshop, it'll be a chance to connect with others, have some fun, and gain a new perspective on how to make social change. Coffee, water, and snacks provided.
6:00-8:00 p.m. Catered Dinner, Lecture, and Group Conversation:
Nonviolent Action: more than personal expression
Over the years and centuries, humankind has long been engaged in violent conflict. Some respond with a personal commitment and discipline for disengagement from a violent world. Currently such approaches use rallies and vigils to symbolize this approach to peaceful resistance. Yet nonviolent action is different than just personal expression -- it is a technique for waging social change. Using past and present stories, this talk and ensuing conversation offers a challenge and advice on how to use new and old tactics for using nonviolent action to make social change.
Location: Indianola Presbyterian Church (1970 Waldeck Avenue, Columbus, 43201)
Tickets:
Workshop: $40 ($20 student/low-income)
Dinner and Talk: $25 ($10 student/low-income)
Attend both events for $50 ($30 student/low-income)
Register by phone or email no later than Friday, March 13th
Contacts: Pat Rose and Audra Teague
Phone: 614.294.9019 Email: office@InterfaithCenterForPeace.org
Sunday, February 1, 2009
CE for Febuary 1 & 8
Issues of Darwinian Evolution and Faith
(led by Dr. Susan Fisher, Chair, OSU Entymology Dept.)
Dr. Fisher teaches Freshman Biology at OSU. When she polls her classes, she routinely finds that 50-60% of the students reject Darwinian evolution, believing instead that humanity came into being roughly 10,000 years ago pretty much as it is today. Dr. Fisher will help us to explore common misunderstandings of Darwin's theory as well as ways evolution is consonant with contemporary understandings of theology.
(led by Dr. Susan Fisher, Chair, OSU Entymology Dept.)
Dr. Fisher teaches Freshman Biology at OSU. When she polls her classes, she routinely finds that 50-60% of the students reject Darwinian evolution, believing instead that humanity came into being roughly 10,000 years ago pretty much as it is today. Dr. Fisher will help us to explore common misunderstandings of Darwin's theory as well as ways evolution is consonant with contemporary understandings of theology.
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