http://www.cultureofpeacealliance.org/home.php
COPA Definition
Culture of Peace: what is it?As defined by the Culture of Peace Alliance (COPA), the Culture of Peace is an evolving paradigm (mental house or system) in which individuals, groups, and nations are cooperatively building systems of sustainable just peace through nonviolent means based on a partnership and a Quality of Life Index. Though much of humanity still sees the world from a Culture of War perspective that inhibits their capacity to even imagine a world of peace, more and more persons, groups, and even some nations are envisioning and implementing Culture of Transformation and Culture of Peace consciousness and practices. Accordingly, COPA formed with the intent to steadfastly facilitate a paradigm shift that will make the Culture of Peace so real that it will be difficult for anyone to imagine a Culture of War. Together, we can lay claim to the Culture of Peace in the ways we live our daily lives and the ways we envision, expect, and work to create a world at peace. In which mental house do you live? There's plenty of open space for those wanting to take up Culture of Peace residency
Monday, September 15, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Student Assistance During Event
The University of Arizona has many programs/students the require volunteer and internship hours. There is a potential that these students will offer free and enthusiastic labor.
Ideas include:
College of Public Health
College of Law
Social Justice Group on Campus
Fraternities (Kappa)
Ideas include:
College of Public Health
College of Law
Social Justice Group on Campus
Fraternities (Kappa)
Outreach Ideas
Attend School Fairs
Meet with School Staff/Educators
Attend UofA Resource Events
Mailings
Media
Meet with School Staff/Educators
Attend UofA Resource Events
Mailings
Media
Facilitators
The Our Family Services Community Mediation Program can contact their 30-40 Mediation Volunteers to assist with facilitating and leading break out sessions.
Our Family Services can also contact the youth they have trained as peer mediators if youth facilitators are needed.
Our Family Services can also contact the youth they have trained as peer mediators if youth facilitators are needed.
Information about Dr. Lafayette
http://www.uri.edu/nonviolence/popup/biography.html
BiographyBernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples’ Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Dr. LaFayette has served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama.
An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University.
His publications include the Curriculum and Training Manual for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Community Leadership Training Program, his doctoral thesis, Pedagogy for Peace and Nonviolence, and Campus Ministries and Social Change in the ‘60’s (Duke Divinity Review) and The Leaders Manual: A Structured Guide and Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence with David Jehnsen. Bernard LaFayette has traveled extensively to many countries as a lecturer and consultant on peace and nonviolence.
Dr. LaFayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
He is the Founder and National President of God-Parents Clubs, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and founder of the Association For Kingian Nonviolence, Education and Training Works.
Dr. LaFayette is currently a Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the chairperson for the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board. He has been re-appointed by Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri as the chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. A native of Tampa, Florida, Dr. LaFayette is married to the former Kate Bulls.
BiographyBernard LaFayette, Jr. has been a Civil Rights Movement activist, minister, educator, lecturer, and is an authority on the strategy on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. He was a leader of the Nashville Movement, 1960 and on the Freedom Rides, 1961 and the 1965 Selma Movement. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples’ Campaign by Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition, Dr. LaFayette has served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama.
An ordained minister, Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, and his Ed.M. and Ed.D from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta and Alabama State University in Montgomery, where he was Dean of the Graduate School; he also was principal of Tuskegee Institute High School in Tuskegee, Alabama and a teaching fellow at Harvard University.
His publications include the Curriculum and Training Manual for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Community Leadership Training Program, his doctoral thesis, Pedagogy for Peace and Nonviolence, and Campus Ministries and Social Change in the ‘60’s (Duke Divinity Review) and The Leaders Manual: A Structured Guide and Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence with David Jehnsen. Bernard LaFayette has traveled extensively to many countries as a lecturer and consultant on peace and nonviolence.
Dr. LaFayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia; and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
He is the Founder and National President of God-Parents Clubs, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and founder of the Association For Kingian Nonviolence, Education and Training Works.
Dr. LaFayette is currently a Distinguished-Scholar-in-Residence and Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He is the chairperson for the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board. He has been re-appointed by Rhode Island Governor Donald Carcieri as the chairman for the Rhode Island Select Commission on Race and Police-Community Relations. A native of Tampa, Florida, Dr. LaFayette is married to the former Kate Bulls.
Income Generation for the Event
Sell tabling spots to community organizations so that they can market at the Dr. Lafayette event.
The charge for tabling could range from $25-200 potentially. These same organizations may be interested in underwriting a portion of the event
Organizations that might be interested:
Our Family Services
University of Arizona Clubs
Local Charter or Private Schools
Every Voice In Action
Wingspan
The charge for tabling could range from $25-200 potentially. These same organizations may be interested in underwriting a portion of the event
Organizations that might be interested:
Our Family Services
University of Arizona Clubs
Local Charter or Private Schools
Every Voice In Action
Wingspan
Potential Locations
University of Arizona
JCC
Local High School
Notes about the University of Arizona:
Because the Womens' Resource Canter is campus-based and wants to assist with this event, it is possible that they could get Gallagher Theater (a $400 cost normally) free of
charge. There are also, obviously, many other options for space on
campus, and with a few exceptions,the WRC can reserve most of them free of
charge.
If we could get food donated,
or if the cost of food is less than $500, we do not have to use campus
catering, which can get very expensive.
JCC
Local High School
Notes about the University of Arizona:
Because the Womens' Resource Canter is campus-based and wants to assist with this event, it is possible that they could get Gallagher Theater (a $400 cost normally) free of
charge. There are also, obviously, many other options for space on
campus, and with a few exceptions,the WRC can reserve most of them free of
charge.
If we could get food donated,
or if the cost of food is less than $500, we do not have to use campus
catering, which can get very expensive.
Community Partners
COPA
Black Chamber of Commerce
Our Family Services
YWCA
University fo Arizona Social Justice
http://www.union.arizona.edu/csil/sjlc/
For more information, send an email to jhoefle@email.arizona.edu
University of Arizona Women's Resource Center
http://wrc.asua.arizona.edu/
Contact: Carly Thomsen/Malia Uhatafe (520) 621-3919
cthomsen@arizona.edu,
maliau@email.arizona.edu
Social Justice Education Project
http://socialjustice.bara.arizona.edu/
Every Voice in Action
http://www.everyvoicefoundation.org/
Black Chamber of Commerce
Our Family Services
YWCA
University fo Arizona Social Justice
http://www.union.arizona.edu/csil/sjlc/
For more information, send an email to jhoefle@email.arizona.edu
University of Arizona Women's Resource Center
http://wrc.asua.arizona.edu/
Contact: Carly Thomsen/Malia Uhatafe (520) 621-3919
cthomsen@arizona.edu,
maliau@email.arizona.edu
Social Justice Education Project
http://socialjustice.bara.arizona.edu/
Every Voice in Action
http://www.everyvoicefoundation.org/
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