Women for Peace Against Fundamentalisms
Free Public Events
February 2nd & 3rd
1) Imperialism, Feminism and Violence: Multifaith Perspectives on Women's Resistance.
Panel and Discussion
Thursday February 2, 2012 9:30am - 12:30pm
C.K. Choi Building, Room # 120, University of British Columbia
2) Gendered Colonialisms: Religion, Violence, and the Canadian State.
Panel and Discussion
Friday February 3, 2012 9:30am - 12:00pm
The Diamond Alumni Center, SFU Burnaby Campus
3) Gathering Strength: A Night of Performance Celebrating the Role of Faith in Resistance
Friday February 3rd, 2012 7:00pm-10:00pm
Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway, Vancouver
Women for Peace Against Fundamentalisms
A five year project whose purpose is to create alliances between women of faith who are working to end all forms of religious violence, including hate crimes and terrorism fueled by religious extremism.
The project is local, national and transnational in scope. This initiative is a partnership project between Peace for Life, Philipines and the Interfaith Institute for Justice Peace and Social Movements, Simon Fraser University. The project is bringing together an international Steering Committee of 11 influential women faith leaders, half of whom are Muslim, and half of whom are Christian, to develop the framework for the next five years. An initial four-day planning meeting of the Steering Committee will take place from February 1st – 4th 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Steering Committee will plan a 2013 conference, to be held in the Southern hemisphere, and develop a methodology for alliance building that incorporates new media and social networks. A central project objective is to share best practices of peace building and interfaith alliance building that support religious pluralism while respecting religious difference. Both the process leading up to the conference and the conference itself will be geared towards the development of concrete local initiatives that will follow from the conference in the following years. A component of the Steering Committee meeting will be four public events held in Vancouver to foster the development of local initiatives.
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