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Talking Peace taping: Human Rights, Religion, & the Tao of Conversation
December 15, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST
You don’t want to miss this week’s taping of #TalkingPeace with the WNYPC! Thanks to Think Twice Radio, you can tune in live on our FB!
Hour 1: ~7:20pm EST on Human Rights & Religion
- With Dr. Rolanda Ward, Ph.D., MSW, MDiv, Director of NU’s Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity, & Mission; Beatrice Singh-Arnone, Sikh rep. to the Network of Religious Communities; Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein, Jewish Community Relations Consultant; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
- Discussion: Statement from Uma Maheswari Krishnan, of the Hindu Cultural Center; ways our various faith traditions teach and support human rights; areas for growth and learning; ways to support and get involved, including both locally and generally.
Hour 2: ~8:30pm EST on The Tao of Conversation
- With Janice Burns, Director of the Motivational Interview Program of the Prevention Council of Erie County; Rev. Vivian Waltz, Director of the SSJ Sr Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
- Discussion: Just because “A” is true doesn’t mean “B” is not true (paradoxes); shared learning/illuminating our truths; how to disarm the (common) “immediate adversarial”; ways to use, facilitate, support and get involved.