Network for Peace

Speaker: Dr Florence Gaub, Chair: Dr Toby Dodge. The lecture will cover post-2011 Libya and ask key questions related to post-conflict reconstruction, security sector reform and transitional justice. What can we learn for future cases of regime change? How can security be built without external security provision? What are the factors that facilitate or impede political transitions?

Conflict coaching is a highly effective intervention suitable for workplace or personal conflicts. Coaching prevents tensions and differences from escalating, and empowers individuals to understand and resolve conflict effectively. This three day training course (9&10 June, 7 July) outlines a structured seven stage model, sharing skills and giving time for practice.
Phone: 07973 446846 Email: angharad-thain@stethelburgas.org http://tinyurl.com/pm6j2xa http://tinyurl.com/opjkx3p

Ramon Ruiz presents "The Flamenco Trail: From the Middle East to Spain.

Film showing and discussion with director Imad Karam and executive producer Howard Grace.

A unique interfaith dialogue workshop co-facilitated with the Christian Muslim Forum exploring the faith influences that can be used to tackle difficult issues in a community setting.

An interactive workshop on transformative conversations in the event of conflict with Sarah Rozenthuler, leading psychologist, consultant and author.

Conflict Coaching course with a follow-up day on 3rd March. This will be of interest to anyone experiencing workplace or personal conflict, and also practitioners in the fields of coaching, counselling and mediation.
07968440684 angharad@stethelburgas.orgs.org http://tinyurl.com/qzdrq5h

An evening dialogue with Dr. Zaza Johnson Elskeikh and Stephen Ruttle QC on the faith inspiration behind mediation from a Muslim and Christian perspective. 6.30pm.
https://www.stethelburgas.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=606

Demonstration at AWE Aldermaston & AWE Burghfield - Rolling out the Wool Against Weapons scarf. The scarf will be rolled out between the atomic weapon factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield on Nagasaki Day in a protest against Trident.
Buses to Aldermaston/Burghfield from various locations, see www.cnduk.org/wool
For more information about the event and the knitting, see www.woolagainstweapons.co.uk

Ralph Miliband Programme ‘Nations and Borders’ lecture series. Speaker: Mike Marquesee Chair: Dr Robin Archer. Mike Marquesee seeks to explain the phenomena of ‘globalised’ spectator sport through examining its origins. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.

In June 2013, Hassan Rouhani was elected president of Iran, running with a mandate of “moderation and wisdom”. He promised to free political prisoners and guarantee civil rights, to return “dignity to the nation”. As negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme continue, we will be exploring the changes this new leader is enacting both on the international stage and within Iran.

Following on from April’s meeting of the country’s top student newspapers, Grapevine is bringing together aspiring journalists for another night of inspiration. Once again there will be two panels, this time looking at the future of traditional media in the age of mass data, multimedia and the Internet.

For more than two years, Egyptians have turned out in massive numbers to occupy Cairo’s Tahrir Square and demand change. Director Jehane Noujaim captured what has happened in the square through the eyes of several young revolutionaries. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Khalid Abdalla, an accomplished actor who put his career on hold to document the revolution.

Speaker: Dr Kate Hudson. Kate, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, has held that post since 2010, having previously been Chair of the campaign since 2003. A leading anti-nuclear & anti-war campaigner nationally & internationally, she is the author of 'CND Now More Than Ever: The Story of a Peace Movement'.
Times 7.30 Buffet (please bring something if you can) 8.00 Talk & discussion, followed by social ending.

Speaker: Carrie Supple. Working with educators, youth groups, community, human rights & faith groups, historians, artists, curators, students & politicians, Carrie is creating a travelling exhibition telling the story of the US civil rights movement, showing how it affected people here & elsewhere at the time & to this day. It will make connections to local campaigns for freedom & rights, e.g. Peasants’ Revolt (East Anglia); Suffragettes (Manchester); trade unions (North East) & civil rights (Northern Ireland).

Speakers: Dave Morris & Michelle Lawson. Dave Morris, a member of the Friends of Lordship Rec in Tottenham & chair of London Green Spaces Friends Groups Network., is a long-term campaigner for the development of Friends groups for all Haringey green spaces. Michelle, also a Friends of Lordship Rec member & a south London parks gardener, is co-ordinating the production of a parks booklet on community empowerment in Haringey parks.
Times 7.30 Buffet (please bring something if you can) 8.00 Talk & discussion, followed by social ending.

Speaker: Colin Waugh. Colin, author of the pamphlet 'Plebs': The Lost Legacy of Independent Working-Class Education, will explain how trade unionists, mainly miners & railway-workers who were students at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1909, went on 'strike' (actually a boycott of specific lectures & lecturers) in an attempt to prevent the principal from being sacked, in the process creating a national system of socialist adult education genuinely independent of the powers-that-be, parts of which survived until the 1960s.

Speaker: Roger Huddle. Roger, a lifelong socialist, born & bred in Walthamstow, is a writer & local historian. During the 1889 dock strike, Mary Gray, a local member of the Social Democratic Federation, began a soup kitchen & school at her home for children of the strikers. Shocked at the lack of knowledge of their own history, in 1892 she began the Socialist Sunday School. It became a national movement. In various forms & different levels of secularism, socialism & religion, it continued till World War Two (& longer in Scotland).

Speaker: Anita Lasker Wallfish. Anita Lasker Wallfisch was born in Breslau (now Wroclaw), the youngest of three sisters. Her parents were deported in 1942. Arrested & sent to prison that year, she was sentenced for 'Forgery, Attempted Escape & Helping the Enemy’ & sent to Auschwitz/ Birkenau in 1943 where she became the only cellist in the Women's Orchestra. Transported to Bergen Belsen November 1944 & liberated by the British Army on 15th April 1945, she has lived in England since 1946, becoming a founder member of the English Chamber Orchestra with which she still plays today.

Speaker: Dr Ruth Cherrington. Working men’s clubs have been a neglected area of working class leisure, yet they were often at the heart of working class communities. This talk introduces the development of clubs from their mid-19th century origins to their current period of decline. Signed copies of Ruth’s book., ‘Not Just Beer & Bingo: A Social History of Working Men’s Clubs’ will be on sale tonight.
7.30 Buffet (please bring something if you can) 8.00 Talk & discussion, followed by social ending.