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January 2009: CPT director emeritus Gene Stoltzfus visitng the UK! Dates and venues now posted!
Vietnam to Iraq: 40 years of Peacemaking
Pioneering Christian peace activist and organizer Gene Stoltzfus will be in the UK this January, speaking to groups around the UK about nonviolent intervention in situations of conflict and injustice.
Gene Stoltzfus was the director of the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) since its founding in 1988 until September 2004. CPT trains and places violence reduction teams in high conflict situations like Iraq, the West Bank, Columbia and various native communities in the United States and Canada. Teams and peacemaker delegations have worked in Chiapas, Vieques, Puerto Rico, and Washington D.C. and investigative teams have visited Chechnya, Afghanistan, Congo and the Philippines.
Stoltzfus traveled to Iraq immediately before the first Gulf War in 1991 and spent extensive time in Iraq again in 2003, consulting with Muslim and Christian clerics, Iraqi human rights leaders, families of Iraqi detainees and talking with American administrators and soldiers.
Gene's commitment to peacemaking is rooted in his experience in Vietnam as a conscientious objector with International Voluntary Service during the US military escalation there from 1963-68. He recalls that watching the helicopter personnel unloading their cargo of bloodied bodies in Saigon set him "on the search to make sense of life and death where the terms of survival, meaning and culture don't forbid killing. I had to ask myself," he said, "whether I was as willing to die for my conviction as the Vietnamese and American soldiers all around me were being asked to do."
For more information, check out Gene's blog "Peace Talk" at http://gstoltzfus.blogspot.com/
Dates and venues:
16 January, 7:30pm - Sustaining Spirit, Body & Mind for Long Term, Disciplined Peacemaking
Friends’ Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, OXFORD, tel: 01865 557373
17 January, 3:00pm - Case Studies - Peacemakers in the Midst of War
Friends' Meeting House, South Terrace, HASTINGS, tel: 014 2443 7820
18 January, 2:15pm - How can we regain a sense of compassion in the face of the frustrations of activism?
London Islamic Network for the Environment, at 14 Shepherds Hill, LONDON, tel: 0845 456 3960
18 January, 7:30pm - Invitation to Global Peacemaking
Cheap Street Church Hall, Cheap Street, SHERBORNE, email: l.docksey at yahoo.co.uk
19 January, 7:30pm - Following the Call to Peacemaking: the experience of Christian Peacemaker
The Friary Church Hall, Crawley Town Centre, Hasslett Avenue, CRAWLEY tel: 0129 354 2853
20 January, 7:30pm - Iraq as a case study: does nonviolence work in this century?
Friends Meeting House, 2 Church Street, READING, tel: 0118 9671362
21 January, 2:00pm - Case Study — Peacemakers in the Midst of War: Iraq
CCR Training Room, Peace Studies Department, Pemberton Building, BRADFORD, tel: 012 7423 5171
21 January, 7:30pm - Bending Our Lives to Active Peacemaking
South Parade Baptist Church, Kirkstall Lane, Headingley, LEEDS, LS6 3LF, tel: 0113 2754989
22 January, 6:30pm - Peacemaking and Anger
St. Ethelburga’s, 78, Bishopsgate, LONDON, EC2N 4AG, tel: 020 7496 1610
23 January, 6:30pm - Does Nonviolence Work?
Friends’ Meeting House, Hill Street, COVENTRY, CV1 4AN, tel: 024 7667 8735
24 January, 9:30am - A Peacemaking Vision: a Seminar on Realities and Risks
London Mennonite Centre, 14 Shepherds Hill, LONDON, N6 5AQ, tel: 0845 450 0214
25 January, 8:15pm - Case Study — Peacemakers in the Midst of War: Iraq
Cordner Hall, Cooke Centenary Church, BELFAST, BT7 2FW, email: reconsec at tcd.ie
26 January, 7:00pm - Does Nonviolence work in this Century?
Bishop Lloyd's Palace, 51-53 Watergate Row, CHESTER, CH1 2LE, tel: 0759 003 1388
27 January, 7:00pm - Does Nonviolence work in this Century?
Friends’ Meeting House, Dean Street, BANGOR, email: mail at bangorpeace.co.uk
28 January, 7:30pm - Following the Call to Peacemaking: The Experience of Christian Peacemaker Teams
Evesham Methodist Church, Bridge St, WR11 4SF EVESHAM, email: gematthews at tiscali.co.uk
29 January, 7:00pm - Case Study: Peacemakers in the Midst of War - Iraq
Quaker Meeting House Bean street, HULL, HU3 2PR, tel: 079 5292 8829
30 January, 7:30pm - Burns’ Night: Iraq, A Case Study in Peacemaking
The Christian Centre, Glebe Street, FALKIRK, tel: 013 2471 6231
31 January, 2:00pm - Bending Our Lives to Active Peacemaking
Bull Street Meeting House, 40 Bull Street, BIRMINGHAM, B4 6AF, forbesbarbarae at yahoo.co.uk