Understanding our Place in a Complex World
We live in a complex world where we can be easily manipulated if we do not understand how social media, visual arts, fear, and charismatic speakers affect us. Our lifestyles lead many of us to accept the status quo, even when others suffer social injustice. The following courses at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) can help you analyze the past and present of the world around us, uncover social injustice occurring in your community, and give you the skills necessary to move your family, your work, and your community into a more peaceful and just future for all (for more information, click on the title of each course).
Peace Tech and Terror: Social Media Roles in Preventing and Fueling Violent Extremism
Social media, artificial intelligence and other new technologies are profoundly reshaping how people see the world. The course will focus on how social media is used by violent extremists and understanding digital peacebuilding approaches to addressing violent extremism.
Media and the Arts: Fueling War or Creating Peace?
How do culture, media and the arts shape public narrative and influence policy? Explore ways to inform and mobilize the masses, support human rights and nonviolent social movements, prevent conflict, and sustainably rebuild after it happens. Understand how creative tools are abused by actors seeking to inflict harm and discuss the risks of taking certain approaches.
Transforming Community Spaces through Equitable Collaboration
Explore challenges and opportunities of responding to community spaces identified with the history of oppression through trauma-informed, inclusive, responsive, truth seeking, deliberative and adaptive principles and practices. Discuss how work to transform the sites of Confederate statues in Charlottesville, VA led to the 2017 Unite the Right rally and counter-protests.
Building Resilience for Challenging Systemic Racism: A Trauma Healing Workshop for Activists and Allies
Explore and interpret root causes of inequity and injustice in social policies and practices. Acknowledge the traumatic effects of racial violence in our schools and communities. Use drumming, dance and dramatization to engage in dialogue about how society is out of balance and how systemic racism permeates institutions and human interaction.
Embodying Resilience, Reigniting Creativity
Social change, justice, and peace require resilience and creativity. We often forget the fundamental importance of noticing our physical and emotional state, and engaging in movement, playfulness and creativity. Explore arts-based, embodied learning in our physical, energetic, psycho-political and sometimes mechanized bodies.
For a list of all courses occurring at the 2020 Summer Peacebuilding Institute, click here.
To apply to the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, click here.
Organizational Discounts and Partial Scholarships
Please note that we still have some funds available to offer partial scholarships. In addition, we have an organizational discount for organizations that send several individuals to our trainings. For more information, scroll down or click here.
We hope to see you at SPI 2020!
Bill Goldberg
Director, Summer Peacebuilding Institute
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