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Solstice Forum on Peacebuilding and Peaceful Coexistence
Dec
13
to Dec 15
2019

Solstice Forum on Peacebuilding and Peaceful Coexistence

2019 Solstice Peacebuilding and Peaceful Coexistence Forum,

including the Empowerment of Women*©

Yale Divinity School, Grace Initiative Global, Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma

Smokey House Farm, Merck Forest and Farmland, Equinox Resort (VT)

Sponsorship: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation.

Bringing about a world for restored relationships, for livelihood opportunities, for nourishment every day, and for preservation of our Earth 

13 December from 1:00 PM to 14 December 4:00 PM 

A scientific, economic, ecological, and political understanding is critical for formulating and implementing inclusive sustainable peace and for approaches fostering coexistence. Peaceful coexistence embraces conditions affecting lives and community such as climate change; nutrition and health, and, human security. At the same time, peacebuilding incorporates processes such as reconciliation as trust building.  In this continuum from peacebuilding to peaceful coexistence, we envisage inter-dependent processes and conditions, which can strengthen resilience, including in rural areas. For example, increasingly agriculture and farming are employed as a tool for both trauma healing and reconciliation as well as essential for sustenance and food security, as well as gender empowerment.  At the same time, climate change may impact food production and cause insecurity.

* This design, winter moon, is based on the art work of Sabra Fields, titled New Moon.

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Agriculture, Farming and Food Security & Peaceful Communities
Oct
3
10:00 AM10:00
2019

Agriculture, Farming and Food Security & Peaceful Communities

International IDEA, Yale Divinity, Grace Initiative Global

AGRICULTURE, FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY

& PEACEFUL SOCIETIES

             

Agriculture, Farming and Food Security

Peaceful and Inclusive Communities

UN Headquarters: Conference Room 8 

3 October 2019 - 10:00 am to 1:00 pm 

In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development[1]the international community set out to transform our world by tackling multiple challenges through holistic and synergistic mechanisms to ensure well‐being, economic prosperity, and environmental protection. Agriculture and sustainable farming represents an integral component for the global community to realize the 2030 Agenda’s interrelated transformational goals. 

In the Secretary-General’s report on Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition noted that most of the world’s 570 million farms are small and family-run; with family farms cultivating about 75% of the world’s agricultural land.[2] Also, the  UN Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) calls for Governments to develop public policies and investments to support family farming from a holistic perspective, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and “To Leave No One Behind.” 

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UN Commission on Status of Women 63 - United Nations - Side Event
Mar
15
1:15 PM13:15
empowerment, peacebuilding, Women's empowerment, 2019

UN Commission on Status of Women 63 - United Nations - Side Event

The Permanent Mission of Iraq to the UN, Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, UN-Women Iraq Country Office and Grace Initiative Global side event for UN CSW 63 

63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

a high-level side event on

 “Iraqi Women Taking the Wheel towards Rebuilding Peace and Stability”

Conference Room12

Friday 15 March 2019

16:45 -18:00

Special guests include First Lady of the Republic of Iraq

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Sustainable Peace and the UN World Faith Harmony Week
Feb
23
3:00 PM15:00
peacebuilding, engagement, 2019

Sustainable Peace and the UN World Faith Harmony Week

Sustainable Peace through Interfaith Harmony

February 23, 2019

3:00 PM-5:30 PM at Zion Episcopal Church, Manchester VT

 

Co-organizers

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Bennington, VT

Yale Alum Non-Profit Alliance (YANA), VT

(Event listed on UN Calendar for World Faith Harmony)

 

In October 2010, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for World Interfaith Harmony Week as a way to promote harmony between all people regardless of their faith.  In the resolution, the General Assembly, points out that mutual understanding and interreligious dialogue constitute important dimensions of a culture of peace and establishes World Interfaith Harmony Week.  Following this resolution, Interfaith Harmony events are held throughout the world during the month of February.

 

At the core of all the faith systems and traditions is the recognition that we are all in this together and that we need to love and support one another to live in harmony and peace in a sustainable world. It is important to increase our efforts to spread the message of good neighborliness based on our common humanity, a message shared by all faith traditions.  The theme for the observance of the Interfaith Harmony for 2019 is therefore “Sustainable Peace through Interfaith Harmony.”

To this end, Zion Episcopal Church (Manchester, VT), St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (Bennington, VT) with support from the Yale Alum Non-Profit Alliance (YANA) for Vermont will organize an interactive discussion on interfaith harmony and sustainable peace, on February 23, 2019.  

 

This inter-active discussion will take place at Zion, from 3:00-5:00 PM, followed by a 30 minutes of prayer – February 23, 2019.  Zionis located at 5167 Main Street, Manchester Center VT. 

 

 

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