Thursday 26 January 2023
Non-violence and Peacebuilding
10am CET / 7pm AEDT
In this second episode of the IMAGI-NATION {TV} series, we explore solutions for building peace through imagination. Johan Galtung, a principal founder of modern-day peace studies, coined the concepts ‘negative peace’ and ‘positive peace’*. Negative peace refers to the absence of violence, while positive peace goes beyond this by building mutual cooperation, social justice, harmony and imagination.
To truly transcend the conflicts of our times, current and past, we need to harness the immense power of imagination to build peace and a better future together. In this spirit, join a selection of inspiring voices, who, in the middle of conflict, seek solutions through their imagination. Hear their ideas and testimonies of using such imaginative thinking to strive for peace as individuals, and in their communities.
(*Johan Galtung, Peace in World Affairs: Geopolitical and Public Imagination, University of California, Santa Barbara May 23, 2017 | Volume 10 | Issue 34)
Speakers
Pavel Luksha, Director & Founder – Global Education Futures, Russia
Johnny J. Mac, Associate Director of World house project, Stanford University, USA
Ahmad Nisar, Founder, Changemaker, Afghanistan
Wiktoria Perner, Youth Fellow, Founder, Esprit du Corps, Poland
Dr Webster Zambara, Senior Project Leader in the Peacebuilding Interventions Programme at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa
More info - https://festival.learning-planet.org/programme/?_event_name=imagination%20tv
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