Waging Peace: AFSC's Summit for Peace and Justice
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Thursday
Summit Kick-Off featuring Charlotte Blake Alston & Tribe One
Friday
Breakfast (paid guests only)
Symposium Opener featuring George Lakey
Morning Panel #1: Direct Service
Humanitarian intervention and service as a way to encourage healing and understanding; includes domestic and relief, reconstruction, feeding, and medical service.
Chair: Emma Lapansky-Werner, Moderator: Linda Lewis, Presenters: Susan Armstrong-Reid, Guy Aiken, and Immaculada Colomina Limonero
Morning Panel #2: Grassroots Organizing
Organizing and providing resources to affect change from the grassroots level up on issues of both peace and justice.
Chair: Pedro Rios, Moderator: Regina Austin, Presenters: Terence L. Johnson, Stephen McNeil, and Francis Bonenfant-Juwong
Lunch (paid guests only)
Lunch Panel: Lives dedicated to Peace and Justice
Using biography to understand the links between peace and justice, service/humanitarianism/activism. Lighter, lunch time session.
Presenters: Tracy K’Meyer, Nan Macy, and Vanessa Northington Gamble
Afternoon Panel #1: Reconciliation, Connection, and Cooperation
Bringing people together in order to promote dialogue, reconceive problems and solutions, and cooperate for peace and justice.
Chair: Jason Tower, Moderator: Mari Oye, Presenters: Carolyne Lamar Jordan, Gordon Mantler, and Doris Panzer
Afternoon Panel #2: Speaking Truth to Power
Using protest, agitation, and persuasion, often aimed at change in policy or official action with examples that range from local to national and international.
Chair: Maria Stephan, Moderator: Alma Abdullhadi Jadallah, Presenters: Stephen Zunes, David L. Hostetter, and Negar Razavi
Symposium Keynote, Erica Chenoweth, professor and associate dean for research at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. Watch on Facebook Live.
Alumni gathering, connect with AFSC alumni and share your story. Located at the Sheraton Hotel, Independence Room A.
Saturday
Breakfast (paid guests only)
Programmed worship with Sa'ed Atshan, Quaker Palestinian professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College.
Workshop series #1
- “Through Their Eyes; For Their Future” The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Children
- Youth Undoing Institutional Racism Freedom School
- Defending Migrant Rights Through Legal Services, Organizing, and Accompaniment
- Our Response to the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS): U.S. Perspectives
- Shifting Narratives to Bring Social Change: AFSC in Palestine 1948 to the Present
- Sanctuary Everywhere
- Countering Islamophobia for Allies
- Confronting Mass Incarceration in Arizona
- How to change a narrative: A guide for activists and peacebuilders
- Brown Solidarity for Black Power in Trump Times
Lunch (paid guests only)
Workshop series #2
- “Through Their Eyes; For Their Future” The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Children
- Youth Undoing Institutional Racism Freedom School
- Defending Migrant Rights Through Legal Services, Organizing, and Accompaniment
- Our Response to the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS): U.S. Perspectives
- Shifting Narratives to Bring Social Change: AFSC in Palestine 1948 to the Present
- Sanctuary Everywhere
- Countering Islamophobia for Allies
- Confronting Mass Incarceration in Arizona
- How to change a narrative: A guide for activists and peacebuilders
- Brown Solidarity for Black Power in Trump Times
Workshop series #3
- Dismantling the Carceral State. Who’s Leading the Movement? What is propping up the system?
- Reclaiming Resilience: Lifting Up Tradition Practices and Growing Sustainable Communities in the Face of Climate Disruption
- Resistance Against the Militarization of the US-Mexico Border
- 100 Years of Conscientious Objection
- Business for Peace: A Global Conversation on Corporate Power and People Power
- U.S. Criminal “Justice” system and the profit of private prison
- Peace Puzzle: How young people work towards peace within a violent context
- Quaker Social Change Ministry
- Economic Justice 101: What it is, why it matters, how to do it
- Somalia youth choose peace against militarism
Workshop series #4
- Dismantling the Carceral State. Who’s Leading the Movement? What is propping up the system?
- Reclaiming Resilience: Lifting Up Tradition Practices and Growing Sustainable Communities in the Face of Climate Disruption
- Resistance Against the Militarization of the US-Mexico Border
- 100 Years of Conscientious Objection
- Business for Peace: A Global Conversation on Corporate Power and People Power
- U.S. Criminal “Justice” system and the profit of private prison
- Peace Puzzle: How young people work towards peace within a violent context
- Quaker Social Change Ministry
- Economic Justice 101: What it is, why it matters, how to do it
- Somalia youth choose peace against militarism
Keynote address, Oscar Arias, two-time President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Laureate.
Sunday
Closing Reception at the African American Museum in Philadelphia
*Full List of Workshops
- “Through Their Eyes; For Their Future” The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Children
- Youth Undoing Institutional Racism Freedom School
- Defending Migrant Rights Through Legal Services, Organizing, and Accompaniment
- Business for Peace: A Global Conversation on Corporate Power and People Power
- Shifting Narratives to Bring Social Change: AFSC in Palestine 1948 to the Present
- Sanctuary Everywhere
- 100 Years of Conscientious Objection
- Confronting Mass Incarceration in Arizona
- How to change a narrative: A guide for activists and peacebuilders
- Brown Solidarity for Black Power in Trump Times
- Dismantling the Carceral State. Who’s Leading the Movement? What is propping up the system?
- Reclaiming Resilience: Lifting Up Tradition Practices and Growing Sustainable Communities in the Face of Climate Disruption
- Resistance Against the Militarization of the US-Mexico Border
- Our Response to the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS): U.S. Perspectives
- U.S. Criminal “Justice” system and the profit of private prison
- Peace Puzzle: How young people work towards peace within a violent context
- Countering Islamophobia for Allies
- Quaker Social Change Ministry
- Economic Justice 101: What it is, why it matters, how to do it
- Somalia youth choose peace against militarism