International
Nonviolence
Conference In Bethlehem
The International
Nonviolence Conference will be
held December 27-30, 2005. The conference
will consist of four tracks: Theory and Methods of
Nonviolence; Palestinian Nonviolent
Movements; Religion and
Nonviolence, and Past, Present and Future of
Nonviolence.
The conference will include speakers, trainers, students, organizers and
activists from across the globe and reflect a diversity of nonviolent
experiences and views. The first conference is being
held in Bethlehem because of the intensified nonviolent struggle
which has emerged in the Palestinian Territories in the past few years. A
website,
www.celebratingnv.org has
been created for the conference.
It is explicitly an
international conference on
nonviolence, meaning the program
and conference attendees will be international in composition and scope, and
that the focus of the conference is
nonviolence as a method and
strategy and not Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution or
peacemaking.
A fundraiser gathering for the
conference in Bethlehem will be held in Washington DC on Sunday November 6
(please see
fundraiser details here)
