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Downers
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Friends Meeting |
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David Zarembka’s Speaking
event October 19, 2013 7:00PM
Topic: Peacemaking
after Deadly Conflict: Healing and Reconciliation
in Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo, and Kenya. Are
revenge, hatred, and another round of violence the
only possibilities after deadly conflict? Can
healing and reconciliation between enemies occur?
This talk will describe how the Alternatives to
Violence Project (AVP) is used to bring all sides of
a conflict back together. From the AVP program the
Rwandans and Burundians have developed another
program, Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities
(HROC), to deal specifically with personal and
community trauma. This program, together with
listening workshops, mediation, inter-community
dialogue will also be described. What are the
difficulties? How successful are they? Can they be
used elsewhere? These programs are all supported by
the African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends
Peace Teams. Short
Biography: David
Zarembka graduated with a Bachelors Degree cum laude in
African History from Harvard University and obtained a
Masters degree in International and Development
Education from the University of Pittsburgh. He has
forty-nine years of involvement in the Great Lakes
region as he first worked in the area in 1964 when he
taught Rwandan refugees in now Tanzania. Since 1998, he
has been the Coordinator of the African Great Lakes
Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams, a Quaker
organization that promotes peacemaking activities will
local groups in the region. He currently lives in
western Kenya with his wife Gladys Kamonya. |
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