Peacebuilding Highlights and Insights Summer Peacebuilding Program at
Peacebuilding Highlights and Insights Summer Peacebuilding Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey
Challenging Assumptions Learning To Ask New Questions Don’t Believe Everything You Think…. .
Think, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. ”
How We Spent Our Days at SPP
What Are Your Assumptions? What Informs Them?
What Questions Come to Mind ?
People Resort to Violence When… Lack of Economic Well Being Inability to express identity Resistance to structural and cultural violence Lack of access to basic human needs Win/Lose political paradigms Hate crimes are perceived as justified by unilateral values around sexuality, race or religion No real reconciliation or peacebuilding efforts have been developed for lasting effect
Lederach, John Paul Moving Toward Deep Peace [Peacebuilding] is understood as a comprehensive concept that encompasses, generates, and sustains the full array of processes, approaches, and stages needed to transform conflict toward more sustainable, peaceful relationships. The term thus involves a wide range of activities that both precede and follow formal peace accords. Metaphorically, peace is seen not merely as a stage in time or a condition. It is a dynamic social construct.
Non-Violent Protest
Transitional Justice Practices
Equal Justice Initiative EJI director Bryan Stevenson has spoken about the power of soil. "In this soil, there is the sweat of the enslaved. In the soil there is the blood of victims of racial violence and lynching. There are tears in the soil from all those who labored under the indignation and humiliation of segregation. But in the soil there is also the opportunity for new life, a chance to grow something hopeful and healing for the future. "
How Are We Peacebuilders? Lack of Economic Well Being Inability to express identity Resistance to structural and cultural violence Lack of access to basic human needs Win/Lose political paradigms Hate crimes are perceived as justified by unilateral values around sexuality, race or religion No real reconciliation or peacebuilding efforts have been developed for lasting effect
Social Cohesion – Building Lasting Peace In Our Community Helping to meet basic human needs Community Organizing to Learn and practice more consultative problem-solving processes Learning to listen so that we truly hear Story-telling Participating in decision-making models that are more participatory rather than based on a win/lose model Increase our consciousness of privilege Learning non-violent ways to create change Become politically involved Support long-term, seemingly benign, efforts toward peacebuilding and social structures that will prevent conflict from starting in the first place
In our own lives, practice reconciliation every time we have a chance Examine our personal assumptions about history and our social context Social Cohesion – Building Lasting Peace At Home Examine the benefits of our privilege and the positive ways we can use it, including sharing our power and space with others Become educated on structural and cultural violence and the biases that exist in both law and societal practice Watch your language, Be kind, Smile to those who are not like you, Welcome the stranger, Have conversations on purpose with people who do not think like you do.
Love, Love The Gospel in a Word is Love for you and love for each other Love, Love Peace, Justice, Justice Love, Love
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