{"id":52127,"date":"2022-05-11T16:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=52127"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:33:39","slug":"lisa-schirch-to-speak-on-decolonializing-peacebuilding-at-summer-peacebuilding-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/lisa-schirch-to-speak-on-decolonializing-peacebuilding-at-summer-peacebuilding-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Schirch to speak on decolonializing peacebuilding at Summer Peacebuilding Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Schirch, the Richard G. Starmann Sr. Professor of the Practice in Peace Studies at Notre Dame\u2019s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will be the first speaker in the Horizons of Change luncheon series, hosted by Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Schirch is a former professor at EMU. <a href=\"https:\/\/keough.nd.edu\/lisa-schirch-appointed-starmann-chair-in-peace-studies\/\">Read more about Dr. Schirch.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecture series featuring experts in the peacebuilding and conflict resolutions fields is an annual tradition at SPI, which draws several hundred peacebuilders from around the world to take courses for both professional development and academic courses. SPI is a program of EMU\u2019s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/cjp\/spi\">Summer Peacebuilding Institute<\/a>. <\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>Schirch will speak Wednesday, May 18, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in the Dining Hall at EMU. Cost is $20 for community members and $15 for EMU faculty and staff. Email <a href=\"mailto:dsilvam@emu.edu\">dsilvam@emu.edu<\/a> to reserve your seat. The deadline to reserve is Monday, May 16.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her topic will be \u201cDecolonializing Peacebuilding.\u201d \u201cDecolonising agendas\u201d are emerging in the fields of humanitarian aid, development, anthropology, sociology and many other facets of life, including peacebuilding. Decolonialism refers to the process of undoing colonial worldviews, institutions and impacts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schirch will analyze how the peacebuilding field can respond to the profound sense of chaos and unpredictability in today\u2019s world by addressing the colonial distortions of governance, economy and society. Schirch will talk about how a decolonizing agenda for peace can help us respond to a global set of interacting \u201c meta calamities\u201d (the pandemic, climate change and weaponisable technologies) as well as rising economic inequality and mass migration, accelerating polarisation and extremism, and urgent demands for racial justice and an end to gender-based violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequent lectures will be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wednesday, June 1, with <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2022\/emu-announces-transitions-at-center-for-justice-and-peacebuilding-and-executive-leadership-team\/\">CJP Executive Director Jayne Docherty and EMU Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Jackie Font-Guzm\u00e1n<\/a>, on the future of CJP and DEI at EMU. Docherty is retiring after 21 years at CJP. Font-Guzm\u00e1n, an expert in conflict transformation and author with Bernard Mayer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/The+Neutrality+Trap%3A+Disrupting+and+Connecting+for+Social+Change-p-9781119793243\">The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change<\/a>, will begin a new role as CJP\u2019s strategic vision director this summer. She will aid in the search for and transition to a new executive director for the center.<\/li><li>June 8, speaker TBD<\/li><li>June 15, with <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=rzb3228\">Ram Bhagat, EdD<\/a>, speaking on \u201cBrown Vs. Board of Education: The Re\/Mix &#8211;\u00a0 From Massive Resistance to Massive Resilience. Bhagat, a graduate of CJP, works in the Richmond Public Schools and has taught several courses at CJP. He is a certified Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience trainer.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost is $20 for community members and $15 for EMU faculty and staff. Email <a href=\"mailto:dsilvam@emu.edu\">dsilvam@emu.edu<\/a> to reserve your seat no later than the Monday before each event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Schirch, the Richard G. 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