{"id":42178,"date":"2019-05-07T12:25:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T16:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=42178"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:20:52","slug":"radio-star-authors-and-peacebuilder-of-the-year-to-grace-spi-horizons-of-change-luncheons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/radio-star-authors-and-peacebuilder-of-the-year-to-grace-spi-horizons-of-change-luncheons\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio star, authors and peacebuilder of the year highlighted during SPI Horizons of Change luncheons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peace advocates from all around the world attending the 2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) will not only learn from global peacebuilding experts and each other. They\u2019ll also hear from a variety of peacebuilders during Horizons of Change lunches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During four sessions in May and June, which begin May 13, academically credentialed practitioners teach five- and seven-day courses that can be taken for personal skills growth and training or academic credit. SPI participants also share wisdom and knowledge and meals with each other and take time for rest, reflection and renewal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, a Horizons of Change lunch during each session will feature a guest speaker:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Wednesday, May 15: Tecla Wanjala MA \u201913 (conflict transformation)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/tecla-namachanja-wanjala-named-cjp-peacebuilder-of-the-year\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2019 CJP Peacebuilder of the Year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the chairperson of the Kenya-based Green String Network, which is dedicated to building on local cultural practices and traditions to facilitate social change. She will share her experiences of community peacebuilding and social healing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Tuesday, May 28: Donna Hicks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the author of two books on dignity, which most people fail to respect when trying to resolve problems. She will highlight what to know about dignity, how to lead with dignity, and how to create a culture where dignity is respected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Wednesday, June 5: Honey Al-Sayed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a Syrian radio star with one of the top-rated morning shows in Syria until she was forced to flee the war in 2012. In the United States she set up an online radio show to reach Syrians in the country and around the world. She is the CEO of a creative consulting and talent agency that represents media and arts professionals from conflict zones, and was interviewed on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/story\/syrian-exile-finds-her-voice-through-storytelling\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Takeway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Tuesday, June 11: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/instructors\/jodie\"><b>Jodie Geddes<\/b><\/a><b> and <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/tomdewolf.com\/\"><b>Tom DeWolf<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are members of Coming to the Table, an organization that started with 20 people at EMU in 2006 and has grown to thousands in 12 states. They recently co-authored <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Little Book of Racial Healing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which came about during the 2016 restorative justice conference held on campus at EMU. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information about any of these speakers or to register for a Horizons of Change lunch ($20 for non-SPI participants, $16 for EMU faculty and staff), please contact <\/span><b>Alison D\u2019Silva<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:dsilvam@emu.edu\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dsilvam@emu.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/courses\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Course topics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include understanding conflict, circle processes, community organizing, healing through theater, Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR), building resilience for challenging system racism, peacebuilding approaches to violent extremism, and much more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just three of the more than 20 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/instructors\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPI instructors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/instructors\/hizkias\"><b>Hizkias Assefa<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has worked as a mediator and facilitator of reconciliation processes at political and community levels in a number of civil wars in Africa, Latin America, and Asia including Rwanda, Nigeria, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Israel\/Palestine, and Guatemala.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/instructors\/ram\"><b>Ram Bhagat<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is committed to healing trauma in classrooms, communities, and consciousness. He is the visionary behind the Richmond Youth Peace Project, a dynamic program that promotes a culture of nonviolence to the city\u2019s youth, through innovative, youth-led peacemaking initiatives. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\/instructors\/lucy\"><b>Lucy Steinitz<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concentrates on efforts to prevent and respond to the abuse and exploitation of children and vulnerable adults worldwide through local capacity-building, project development and technical support. Most recently, she has directly involved in combating human trafficking in India, family-strengthening in Uganda, post-Ebola recovery in Sierra Leone and promoting trauma-healing in Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Latin America.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace advocates from all around the world attending the 2019 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP) will not only learn from global <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/radio-star-authors-and-peacebuilder-of-the-year-to-grace-spi-horizons-of-change-luncheons\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Radio star, authors and peacebuilder of the year highlighted during SPI Horizons of Change luncheons<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":41055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12503,17436,17562,12499],"tags":[11321],"feature":[17426,17241],"class_list":["post-42178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cjp","category-center-for-justice-and-peacebuilding","category-digest","category-spi","tag-events","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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