<font size="2"><i style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into a friend.” MLK</i><br></font><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" size="4"><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Introduction to </span><br><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE CONFLICT RECONCILIATION </span></font><br>
<span></span><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>Certified
Course, $60</b><br><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Total
hours: 16</b><br><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Facilitator:
Ruth K Henry, Lengua de mi Barrio; <br> Cartagena University, Colombia</b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br></span><b style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
June 18-19</b><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> @ </span><font size="2"><b><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">encuentro 5</span></b></font><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> - 33 Harrison Avenue, 5th Floor<br>
Boston, MA 02111<br> <a href="http://www.encuentro5.org" target="_blank">www.encuentro5.org</a><br><br>For more info and to register, <br>visit: <a href="http://www.transformingconflict.org" target="_blank">www.transformingconflict.org</a><br>
</span> <span></span><br><br><font size="2"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Course
Description:</b></font><br><br>
In
this introductory course, participants will receive an overview of the life,
work, and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King and will explore how his
philosophy of nonviolence can be and has been applied in diverse settings
across the globe to confront injustice and build towards beloved community. By
learning and analyzing Dr. King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence as well as his
six step methodology, students will become familiar with a viable, practical,
and historically effective map for how to create lasting social change through
nonviolent direct action and dig deep below conflicts to find true
reconciliation. They will also be
introduced to conflict dynamics, types, levels, and strategies for
reconciliation. They will learn the salient points of major Civil Rights
campaigns and reflect on the ingredients which made them successful. Social
models for comprehensive change, such as Hausser’s Top-Down Bottom-Up and
Aggression-Conciliation models, will serve as a further framework for
understanding the complex relationships between groups of people across a given
community and how to navigate through them towards justice. Using a variety of interactive
techniques, participants will also reflect together on how to apply these
teachings in our current environments.<br><br>
<b>Origin
of Curriculum:</b><br><br>
The
curriculum for this course, designed by Dr. Bernard Lafayette, has been taught
and implemented in countries around the world, such as Nigeria, Colombia, South
Africa, Mexico, and the Middle East. Dr. Lafayette was a close friend and
confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Civil Rights Movement activist,
minister, and educator, co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) , and director of the Selma Voting Rights Campaign. He is
considered a global authority on the strategy of nonviolent social change and
has created this course as a response to Dr. King’s mandate that the next step
for his work was the institutionalization and internationalization of
Nonviolence. <br><br>
<b>Facilitator:</b><br><br>
The
course will be conducted by Ruth Henry, who has been certified as a Kingian
nonviolence trainer by Dr. Lafayette. Ruth is an artist, teacher, and activist
who has worked in and across Boston organizations such as Inquilinos Boricuas
en Accion, Project Hip Hop, and Critical Breakdown to bring youth together
across violent neighborhood conflicts through social justice education and the
arts. She currently teaches at the University of Cartagena in Colombia and is the director of La
Lengua de mi Barrio, a Hip Hop exchange program between Colombia and the United
States which unites Hip Hop artists and activists through workshops, trainings,
performances, recordings, binational exchanges and virtual communications in
order to share strategies and join our communities’ nonviolent social justice
work. As Hip Hop emcee, she is a member of Matriarkao, a Cartagena-based female
Hip Hop collective also dedicated to nonviolence and social justice.<br><br><br>
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