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.