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Vol. XX, No. 1                                                                     Fall, 2005

Nonviolent Change Journal helps to network the peace community: providing dialoguing, exchanges of ideas, articles, reviews, reports and announcements of the activities of peace related groups and meetings, reviews of world developments relating to nonviolent change and resource information concerning the development of human relations on the basis of mutual respect.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

The 20th Annual Meeting of the Research/Study Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change, will be May (Date to be decided) just before the annual O.D. Information exchange, at.

For more information, contact

Organization Development Institute,

11234 Walnut Ridge Road

Chesterland, OH 44026

(440)729-7419

DonWCole@aol.com

www.odinstitute.org

 

Let Don know if you would like to present. The meeting will open with a get to know each other session on Sunday evening that will set the initial agenda. The group will adjust the agenda as the meeting proceeds, with preference given to presentations and discussions already scheduled.

 

The 35th Annual O.D. Information Exchange will be May (Date to be decided) at the. For more information, contact Don Cole at http://www.odinstitute.org  or at the above address or telephone number.

 

 

The 26th O.D. World Conference and O.D. Networks World Wide will be announced shortly. For details contact Don Cole at O.D. Institute  at http://www.odinstitute.org or at the above address or telephone number.

 

 

 

The Call for Justice Weekend: Stop the Torture, calling for an end of the use of torture by the U.S., is in Washington, DC, September 24-25, sponsored by the Universal Universalist Service Committee. For information contact Jennifer Harbury or Nadya Khalife at the UUSC office, (800)388-3920, (617)868-6100,    stoptorture@uusc.org, www.uusc.org

 

 

United for Peace and Justice Mobilization to End the War in Iraq is in Washington. DC, September 24-26. For details contact United for Peace and Justice, P.O. Box 607, Times Square Station, New York, NY 10108 (212)868-5545,  http://www.unitedforpeace.org

 

 

The Second Annual Conference on Conflict Resolution Education, What Works!  Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education:  Early Childhood to Higher Education is September 28 - October 1 at Columbus, OH. For details contact the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution, (614)752-9595,  http://www.disputeresolution.ohio

 

 

The 2005 Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Conference will be at Goshen College in Indiana, October 6-9.  For details go to: www.peacejusticestudies.org or http://www.plowsharesproject.org

 

 

 The 2005 Gandhian Conference on Nonviolence is October 14-15, 2005 Memphis, TN. For details, contact Dr. Peter Gathje, Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN  38104 or  pgathje@cbu.edu

 or visit the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website:  http://www.gandhiinstitute.org

 

 

Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA) Conference is October 24-28, in Philadelphia, PA (for more information on the VOMA Conference, see http://www.voma.org ), with a Pre-Conference event, Sunday, October 23, 2005, is intended to: 1. define socially responsible peacemaking practices; 2. outline guidelines for supporting and building culturally enabled and diverse organizations and services; 3. develop a national and international alliance of organizations involved in promoting socially responsible and justice-focused practices in conflict resolution, mediation, and peacemaking. For more information contact PeaceWeb: (520)670-1541, peaceweb@apeacemaker.net

 

 

Jaipur Peace Foundation in collaboration with Peace Education Commission, IPRA and Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) is organizing its third international conference on Sixty Years After Second World War: Lessons for Peace Building, January 5-7, in Jaipur (Rajasthan) India. For details contact Naresh Dadhich at: http://in.f86.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ndadhich@datainfosys.net,  adhich@datainfosys.net

or at:  http://in.f86.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=dadhich_naresh@yahoo.co.in  or at  dadhich_naresh@yahoo.co.in

 

 

The Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability is in

Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, January, 9-12. This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability. For information go to: http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

 

 

The Global Process Institute has organized a world-work seminar, "The Listening Land, Creating Community Where Histories Meet: An International Forum Exploring Belief Systems, Conflict and the Human Spirit," in Sydney Australia, April 27 - May 3. For information go to www.worldwork@worldwork.org

 

 

 

 

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