{"id":684,"date":"2009-01-15T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/01\/15\/gene-stolzfus-talks-over-next-weeks\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T08:56:00","slug":"gene-stolzfus-talks-over-next-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/01\/15\/gene-stolzfus-talks-over-next-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Stolzfus talks over next weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As you may know I wrote this piece<\/a> looking at non-violent solutions to the Israeli\/Palestinian Conflict for my book Israel, Palestine and Terror.<\/p>\n

This guy is giving talks on the subject around the country in next week or two. This is just for your information. Of course, he is a Christian and the venues are all Christian but I am sure they let heathens in.<\/p>\n

PRESS RELEASE<\/span><\/p>\n

Pioneering Christian peace activist and organizer Gene Stoltzfus will be in Britain and Ireland from 16 January 2009, speaking about nonviolent intervention in situations of conflict and injustice. With the tragedy unfolding in Gaza, the trip could not be more timely. The visit is part of a larger tour.<\/p>\n

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, Colombia and various native or indigenous communities in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n

In the Americas, Teams and peacemaker delegations have worked in Chiapas, Vieques, Puerto Rico and Washington DC. Meanwhile, investigative teams have visited Chechnya, Afghanistan, Congo and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

His peacemaking is also solidly rooted in theology, derived from his own Mennonite commitment, and the theory and practice of nonviolent action, conflict transformation, resistance and social change.<\/p>\n

For the most up-to-date information, check out Gene’s blog “Peace Talk” at http:\/\/gstoltzfus.blogspot.com\/<\/p>\n

Dates and venues<\/p>\n

16 January, 7:30pm – Sustaining Spirit, Body & Mind for Long Term, Disciplined Peacemaking<\/p>\n

Friends\u2019 Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, OXFORD, tel: 01865 557373<\/p>\n

17 January, 3:00pm – Case Studies – Peacemakers in the Midst of War<\/p>\n

Friends’ Meeting House, South Terrace, HASTINGS, tel: 014 2443 7820<\/p>\n

18 January, 2:15pm – How can we regain a sense of compassion in the face of the frustrations of activism?<\/p>\n

London Islamic Network for the Environment, at 14 Shepherds Hill, LONDON, tel: 0845 456 3960<\/p>\n

18 January, 7:30pm – Invitation to Global Peacemaking<\/p>\n

Cheap Street Church Hall, Cheap Street, SHERBORNE, email: l.docksey at yahoo.co.uk<\/p>\n

19 January, 7:30pm – Following the Call to Peacemaking: the experience of Christian Peacemaker<\/p>\n

The Friary Church Hall, Crawley Town Centre, Hasslett Avenue, CRAWLEY tel: 0129 354 2853<\/p>\n

20 January, 7:30pm – Iraq as a case study: does nonviolence work in this century?<\/p>\n

Friends Meeting House, 2 Church Street, READING, tel: 0118 9671362<\/p>\n

21 January, 2:00pm – Case Study \u2014 Peacemakers in the Midst of War: Iraq<\/p>\n

CCR Training Room, Peace Studies Department, Pemberton Building, BRADFORD, tel: 012 7423 5171<\/p>\n

21 January, 7:30pm – Bending Our Lives to Active Peacemaking<\/p>\n

South Parade Baptist Church, Kirkstall Lane, Headingley, LEEDS, LS6 3LF, tel: 0113 2754989<\/p>\n

22 January, 6:30pm – Peacemaking and Anger<\/p>\n

St. Ethelburga\u2019s, 78, Bishopsgate, LONDON, EC2N 4AG, tel: 020 7496 1610<\/p>\n

23 January, 6:30pm – Does Nonviolence Work?<\/p>\n

Friends\u2019 Meeting House, Hill Street, COVENTRY, CV1 4AN, tel: 024 7667 8735<\/p>\n

24 January, 9:30am – A Peacemaking Vision: a Seminar on Realities and Risks<\/p>\n

London Mennonite Centre, 14 Shepherds Hill, LONDON, N6 5AQ, tel: 0845 450 0214<\/p>\n

25 January, 8:15pm – Case Study \u2014 Peacemakers in the Midst of War: Iraq<\/p>\n

Cordner Hall, Cooke Centenary Church, BELFAST, BT7 2FW, email: reconsec at tcd.ie<\/p>\n

26 January, 7:00pm – Does Nonviolence work in this Century?<\/p>\n

Bishop Lloyd’s Palace, 51-53 Watergate Row, CHESTER, CH1 2LE, tel: 0759 003 1388<\/p>\n

27 January, 7:00pm – Does Nonviolence work in this Century?<\/p>\n

Friends\u2019 Meeting House, Dean Street, BANGOR, email: mail at bangorpeace.co.uk<\/p>\n

28 January, 7:00pm – Following the Call to Peacemaking: The Experience of Christian Peacemaker Teams<\/p>\n

Evesham Methodist Church, Bridge St, WR11 4SF EVESHAM, email: gematthews at tiscali.co.uk<\/p>\n

29 January, 7:00pm – Case Study: Peacemakers in the Midst of War – Iraq<\/p>\n

Quaker Meeting House Bean street, HULL, HU3 2PR, tel: 079 5292 8829<\/p>\n

30 January, 7:30pm – Burns\u2019 Night: Iraq, A Case Study in Peacemaking<\/p>\n

The Christian Centre, Glebe Street, FALKIRK, tel: 013 2471 6231<\/p>\n

31 January, 2:00pm – Bending Our Lives to Active Peacemaking<\/p>\n

Bull Street Meeting House, 40 Bull Street, BIRMINGHAM, B4 6AF, forbesbarbarae at yahoo.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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