Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] War Resisters' International conference, on globalising nonviolence¹ : July 23-29 2006, Paderborn, Germany
> > Greetings
>
> I am writing to inform everyone about an important -
> and I think exciting - meeting that is coming up in July this
> year, the War Resisters' International conference, on
> the theme of ‘globalising nonviolence’. It is being
> held during July 23-29 2006 in Paderborn, Germany.
>
> Check the website
> http://wri-irg.org/tri2006/en/index.html.
>
> Ciao, tom
> _________________________________________
> War Resisters' International Conference
> Schloss Eringerfeld
> Paderborn, Germany [see map]
> 23-27 July 2006
>
> Are you interested in both nonviolence and
> globalisation?
> Are you campaigning against war?
> Are you involved in nonviolent direct action or
> curious to learn more?
> The War Resisters' International conference
> Globalising Nonviolence will be a great opportunity to
> meet activists from all over the world, to get to know
> what makes them tick, and to see how you can help each
> make another world possible. Around the world, a
> movement of movements is converging. This movement
> seeks to counterpose the perspective and values of
> people's power to those of global financial
> institutions, transnational corporations or
> governments. This is a movement of globalisation from
> below.
> WRI believes that this movement of movements has a
> major role to play in this globalisation from below.
> Hence the theme of our upcoming international
> conference - Globalising Nonviolence.
>
> Conference discussions will:
> • Analyse the contemporary situation of economic,
> cultural and political globalisation. How are
> capitalist globalisation and militarism related?
> • Develop strategies for nonviolent resistance
> towards the unjust aspects of globalisation. How do we
> create nonviolent social change?
> • Bring together people from the globalisation
> critical movement and WRI's network of pacifists and
> anti-militarists for mutual exchange of ideas on
> nonviolent opportunities for resistance.
> • Strengthen networks and create new links between
> activists from all over the world.
>
> Conference structure
>
> Each day of the conference will begin with a short
> plenary session on the day's major topic. Then
> participants will divide into theme and activity
> groups, where the same people will meet every day
> during the conference to discuss a specific theme in
> depth. The afternoons will include one-time workshops
> and plenary sessions.
>
> Day Topics
>
> 1. Globalising Nonviolence
>
> We aim to make this a highly participatory conference
> and that will begin with the opening session.
>
> 2. Militarism and globalisation
>
> The morning plenary will ask: How do economic
> globalisation, militarism and war relate? The evening
> plenary will address issues arising from the
> "privatisation" of war, by the increase in
> "outsourcing" to private companies.
>
> 3. Learning from globalisation from below
>
> Investigating nonviolent actions already taking place
> against the negative aspects of globalisation, the
> morning plenary will focus on how German and East
> African groups have worked together against the
> trade/traffic in small arms. The evening plenary will
> concentrate on the strategies pursued by the movements
> involved in globalisation from below to support
> citizens' peace processes in Palestine as a specific
> case study.
>
> 4. For a nonviolent strategic framework
>
> What does a nonviolent strategy have to contribute to
> the movement for globalisation from below? What does
> involvement in the movement for globalisation from
> below have to contribute to a nonviolent
> antimilitarist strategy?
>
> 5. From protest to social change
>
> Discussing alliances and goals, and reviewing the
> plans and ideas developed during the conference.
>
> Theme and Activity Groups
>
> Militarism in a global economy
>
> Military industry tends to be privatised, diversified,
> and globalised, and yet still - compared to other
> industries - privileged. This group will analyse the
> strategy and the practice of the global
> military-industrial complex.
>
> Military presence
>
> The military has a profound impact on society and
> culture through processes of militarisation. It
> occupies space, both physical and cultural. This group
> will examine possible nonviolent strategies for
> demilitarising society.
>
> Nonviolent citizens' interventions
>
> Nonviolent citizens' intervention is a practical
> example of globalisation from below, making links
> globally and supporting peace building and resistance
> to oppression in other parts of the world.
>
> Nonviolent strategy and globalisation
>
> What are the strategies and objectives of
> globalisation-critical movement and the place of
> nonviolence within these? How do the activities of the
> international anti-war movements fit with this?
>
> The right to refuse to kill
>
> Themes for discussion will include conscientious
> objection, war tax resistance, deserters, and/or war
> resistance without conscription. "The Right to Refuse
> to Kill" is one of WRI's major programmes.
>
> War profiteers
>
> This theme group will name some of the biggest
> transnational corporations that make a profit through
> war, and seek ways to direct nonviolent actions
> against these companies.
>
> Nonviolence training for beginners
>
> Through games, role plays, exercises and discussions,
> the participants in this group will be introduced to
> various aspects of the field of nonviolence.
>
> Video activism
>
> This group is both about practical introduction to the
> technical aspects of video and about how to use video
> as a political tool. This group will produce a video
> of the conference!
>
> War Resisters' International
>
> WRI believes that "war is a crime against humanity"
> and works "to refuse war and to remove the causes of
> war". Founded in 1921, it is now a network of
> pacifists, anti-militarists and nonviolent activists
> on every continent. Throughout its history, members of
> WRI have taken a lead not only in movements against
> war but in applying nonviolence to a wide range of
> other social issues, both in their own countries and
> internationally.
>
> German Conference Hosts
>
> The Conference will be hosted by and organised in
> cooperation with all WRI's German affiliates,
> participating in the WRI-Förderverein as a legal
> framework:
> • Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte
> KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK)
> • Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Internationale der
> Kriegsdienstgegner (DFG-IdK) Hamburg
> • Internationale der KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (IdK)
> Berlin
> • Institut für Frieden und Gewaltfreie
> Konfliktbearbeitung (IFGK)
> • Archiv Aktiv
> • Graswurzelrevolution
>
> Travel information
>
> The venue is Schloss Eringerfeld, near Paderborn,
> Westphalia. Further travel information will shortly be
> available on this website.
>
> Visa requirements
>
> Please check visa requirements on the website of the
> German Foreign office at
> http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/willkommen/ > einreisebestimmungen/index_
> html.
> If you need a visa to come to Germany, please contact
> WRI after registration for the conference. We will
> provide you with an invitation after payment for
> participation in the conference has been received.
>
> Registration information
>
> War Resisters' International, 5 Caledonian Road,
> London N1 9DX, Britain
> +44 20 72784040
> registration@???
> www.globalisingnonviolence.org/regform-en.html >
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