You are warmly invited to join the next webinar hosted by WILPF, the Women’s international League for Peace and Freedom. Our speaker will be Diana Francis, who will talk about: Gender, Peace and Power: conflict transformation in action.
Bio
A peace activist since her teens, and a long-standing member of WILPF, Diana Francis is a former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and for many years chaired the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support, a group of professionals in the field of conflict transformation.
Until her retirement an affiliate of Conciliation Resources, she worked for many organisations in supporting local peacemakers: in the former Yugoslavia, in different parts of what had been the Soviet Union, and in Africa, the Middle East and South and South East Asia.
She has written articles and books and been a public speaker on gender, peace, power and transformation, and on the demilitarisation of culture and policy on conflict, security and international relations. She was the original convener of the group that grew into the Rethinking Security network. She remains a member of its Council and convenes a local group. She is a Vice-President of the Movement for the Abolition of War.
Theme
Conflict itself is part of daily life and can be worked through and resolved. However, that is not possible while toxic models of power are embedded in our cultures and the structural violence of oppression prevails. ‘Conflict transformation’ begins with concerted movement-building and nonviolent action, in order to change those power relations, so that not only can a just resolution be reached but genuine peace can be built. With wars ravaging people and planet, these processes are desperately needed at the global level.
Contact ukwilpf.info@gmail.com for zoom link.