[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: Speaker on Non-violent reconciliation from Burundi

[Joy]

I think I am going to go to this.  Sounds right up my alley.  Hope you are 
able to sleep tonight.

Love,
Joy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara kessel" <barkes at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:10 PM
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Speaker on Non-violent reconciliation from Burundi


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Charlotte Green <chgreen48 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Jun 5, 2008 8:28 PM
>
>
> Florence Ntakarutimana will give a talk entitled, "Healing from Civil
> War: Bringing the enemy sides together in Burundi" on Wednesday, June
> 25 at 7 PM at the Urbana-Champaign Friends Meetinghouse, 1904 E. Main,
> Urbana.  Refreshments will be served following the presentation.
>
> How can a country heal after twelve years of civil war, which killed
> 3% of the population? How can another greater round of violence be
> avoided?
>
> Florence Ntakarutimana will talk about grassroots efforts to move
> towards a peaceful future in which desires for revenge are turned into
> reconciliation.  Florence is the program coordinator of Healing and
> Rebuilding Our Community (HROC) in Burundi.  Florence's speaking tour
> is sponsored by African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI), a Quaker
> organization supporting peacemaking activities in the Great Lakes
> region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and
> Uganda).
>
> Donations will be accepted for Florence's work in Burundi.  Checks may
> be made out to Friends Peace Teams with AGLI/Burundi written on the
> memo line.
>
> Co-sponsored by African Great Lakes Initiative, Urbana-Champaign
> Friends Meeting, and Channing-Murray Foundation
>
> For more information, contact Charlotte Green (chgreen48 at yahoo.com) or
> Sandy Bales (sbales at uiuc.edu)
>
>
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