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Education and Research on Public Dialogue

Public Dialogues

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Current or Recent Events

• Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery: What is the "Doctrine of Discovery"? Why should Christians repudiate it?. Film, Lecture and Discussion, featuring Tl'ul'thut, Robert Morales, Chief Negotiator of the Hul'q'umi'num' Treaty Group, Vancouver Island, October 2016.
• Displaced Persons in Iraq. April 28, 2008, 12:30 to 1:30 pm, UVic, Victoria BC, co-sponsored by Peacemakers Trust and hosted by the University of Victoria's Institute for Dispute Resolution...more.
  
  
• Two former enemies tell their story of grass-roots peace-building in Northern Nigeria. January 31, 2008, 12:30 to 1:30 pm, UVic, Victoria BC, co-sponsored by Peacemakers Trust, Initiatives of Change and hosted by the University of Victoria's Centre for Studies in Religion and Society and the Institute for Dispute Resolution...more.
  
  
• How Iraqis Perceive Humanitarian Action: Frailties and Fault-Lines in Stark Relief. October 10, 2007, UVic, Victoria BC, co-sponsored by Peacemakers Trust and the University of Victoria Institute for Dispute Resolution...more.
  
  
• The Imam and the Pastor: A 40-Minute Film and a Conversation About the Possibility of Dialogue and Reconciliation. March 23, 2007, 12:30 to 2 pm, UVic, Victoria BC, co-sponsored by Peacemakers Trust, Initiatives of Change and the University of Victoria Institute for Dispute Resolution...more.
  
  
• Media Conflict and Society: A Conversation about Conflict Reporting. An informal dialogue about role of journalists in the conflicts they report at home and abroad, May 8, 2004, Vancouver BC, co-sponsored by Peacemakers Trust and the Conflict Resolution Network Canada. Attendance is by invitation to journalists, journalism educators, and others with a special interest in this topic...more.
  
  
• A Force More Powerful. Film and discussion series, Sundays, September 7, 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 2003, 10 am to 11 a.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church in the Stevenson Room, 2121 Cedar Hill Cross Road, Victoria, B.C. Everyone is welcome. Discussions facilitated from a Christian perspective...more.
  
  
• Responding in Iraq: Mobilizing Our Community for Humanitarian Intervention An Information Workshop for Community Leaders, Academics and Citizens in Victoria Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 8:00 am to 5:15 pm at University of Victoria, Centre for Innovative Teaching, Room 105. Some workshop papers online...more.
  
  
• A Force More Powerful, a lunchtime film and discussion series, Tuesdays, February 11-March 25, 2003, at 12:30 p.m., University of Victoria, Centre for Innovative Teaching, CIT Room 110. No charge....more.

Research and Education on Public Dialogue

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