{"id":57170,"date":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-center-for-nonviolence-and-peace-studies-to-offer-nonviolence-training-june-1-12\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"uri-center-for-nonviolence-and-peace-studies-to-offer-nonviolence-training-june-1-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/uri-center-for-nonviolence-and-peace-studies-to-offer-nonviolence-training-june-1-12\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies to offer nonviolence training, June 1-12"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tParticipants expected from Nepal, Afghanistan, Tibet and other countries<\/b><\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 12, 2015 \u2013 Police shootings, mass killings and gruesome beheadings dominate today\u2019s headlines, leaving some wondering if violence is the new normal.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no better time, then, to promote peace. That\u2019s the goal of nonviolence training sessions offered next month by the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\nCommunity leaders from Nepal, India, Ghana, Palestine, Turkey, Pakistan, Germany, Liberia, Tibet and China are expected at the program, June 1 through 12 at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Multicultural Center, 74 Lower College Road, on the Kingston campus. To register, call 401-874-2875.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThey are all participating in a unique, American-brand of social activism, to deal with conflicts in their world,\u201d says Paul Bueno de Mesquita, center director and a 溏心vlog免费B站 psychology professor. \u201cIn some ways, they\u2019re very hungry \u2013 and some are desperate \u2013 for nonviolent methods to change their communities. People can\u2019t thrive and develop without peace.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe program, known as the International Nonviolence Summer Institute, has grown steadily since it started 14 years ago, attracting committed leaders who want to learn how to achieve nonviolence, conflict reconciliation and social change.<\/p>\n


\nThis year, about 75 participants are expected from 14 countries and nine states in the United States. Besides global leaders, teachers, students, counselors, clergy, social activists, community organizers, and health and mental health professionals are also coming.<\/p>\n


\nAmong the international participants are: the first woman mayor of an Afghan town now living in Westerly; a Pakistani man who works for a humanitarian group in his country; and an Afghan woman trying to improve educational opportunities for women in her country.<\/p>\n


\nThere are two levels of training. In Level l, participants will study, for two weeks, the nonviolent methods of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/p>\n


\nIn Level II, participants will study the leadership styles of King and other nonviolent leaders and how to organize and mobilize communities to peacefully resolve violence and problems of social justice. That one-week seminar will be led by Bernard LaFayette Jr., founder and former director of the center. A colleague and confidante of King, LaFayette is a civil rights activist, minister, educator and lecturer at Emory University.<\/p>\n


\nIn addition to Bueno de Mesquita, the other trainers will be Kay Johnson Bueno de Mesquita, an education instructor at 溏心vlog免费B站; Gail Faris, former assistant director at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Center, and Thupten Tendhar, a graduate administrative assistant at the center.<\/p>\n


\nBorn to Tibetan parents, Tendhar joined a monastery in South India at age 12, where he studied for 18 years, earning the doctoral-level Geshe degree in Buddhist philosophy. He teaches \u201cTibetan Buddhism \u2013 Journey to Nirvana\u201d and is pursuing his doctorate in education at 溏心vlog免费B站. The center recently published his first collection of poetry, \u201cPeace \u2013 Rhythm of My Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMore than 500 people have attended the summer program since it began in 2001 with a handful of participants, mostly from the United States. Bueno de Mesquita says that over the years the program has won international acclaim.<\/p>\n


\nBueno de Mesquita is especially proud of participants who take back what they learned to their countries. Hamish Khan, of Pakistan, applies his knowledge to his education and job skills program in Peshawar Valley, one of the most volatile regions in the country.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cHis organization is trying to bring positive constructive development to the area, rather than letting it be a training ground for terrorists,\u201d says Bueno de Mesquita. \u201cOur center is proud that he\u2019s adopted nonviolent training as part of the group\u2019s mission statement.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nEtiene Martines, a federal judge in Rio de Janeiro, uses what he learned at 溏心vlog免费B站 to resolve disputes in his courtroom. Leonardo Prieto, of Venezuela, a country plagued by gun violence and political turmoil, leads nonviolent sessions for school and community groups. <\/p>\n


\n\tOne event during the two-week program is open to the public. Kay and LaFayette will speak about their book, \u201cIn Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma,\u201d on Tuesday, June 9 at 7 p.m. at the Multicultural Center. The talk is free.<\/p>\n


\nFor more information about the summer program, contact Thupten Tendhar at summerinstitute@dept.uri.edu. The center is also seeking volunteers to help with the program. To volunteer, call 401-874-2875.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe sessions are not passive learning,\u201d says Bueno de Mesquita. \u201cPeople are actively engaged in intensive training activities, all day, every day. Nonviolence is an active process. You can\u2019t be sleeping when learning about nonviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBesides the nonviolence training program, the center also offers an interdisciplinary minor for undergraduates, as well as workshops on compassion and inner peace and academic courses on Buddhist history, culture and philosophy. <\/p>\n


\nFor eight years, the center has also led a team of 溏心vlog免费B站 students in the \u201cSecond Step Violence Prevention Program\u201d in the schools of Central Falls, one of the poorest communities in the state.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: Participants in the 2014 International Nonviolence Summer Institute at the 溏心vlog免费B站. The annual program is hosted by the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies. Photo courtesy of the center.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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