Get Involved
Thousands of creative initiatives for
preventing and stopping violence are already in use throughout
the world – but these successful approaches
are not reaching most of the people who could use them
in homes, streets, schools, and in international relations.
You can take part in
transforming violence by:
Help to create
a travelling Exhibition
Get involved:
Visit Cultivating Community at
the Eden Project (November 6 2004 - January 31 2005). Work with
organizations and individuals to bring the traveling exhibition and
conversations to your community
Add to the evidence:
Social Intelligence Database.
The Social Intelligence Database
- which will contain over 200 creative strategies to
prevent, halt and heal violence - includes a wide variety
of programs and techniques, including art, sports, gardening,
economic development, leadership training, rites of
passage, theatre, spirituality, dialogue, restorative
justice and innovative approaches to education. Each
has a ?transformative? approach that treats people with
respect and deals with the roots of violence.
Get involved:
You can participate in the work of transforming violence.
Find out about activities that are using creative approaches
to address issues of violence in your local community
and at the international level (for example, classrooms
that have an exchange program or videoconferencing with
schools of predominantly different ethnicities; citizen’s
groups that monitor the media for bias and try to increase
coverage of non-violent perspectives; a community gardening
program that gives at-risk youth an opportunity to learn
business skills while providing food to elders in the
community; men who are committed to stopping violence
against women by talking and listening to boys about
the issue; or listening projects/living room dialogues
between people with different viewpoints). Please add
your story to our database of
innovative projects and programs by telling
us about the initiatives that inspire you.
You can also send photographs, interviews,
video, graphics or other documentation that can be used
to create the exhibition and web site. Tell
Us
Adapt
a Strategy to Your Community
Adapt one of these strategies or projects and use it
in your own community. Or get involved in an existing
program.
Get involved:
- Choose a project that is based on
your own talents or interests – whether it is
music, gardening, business, children, or sports…
People are using all these ‘tools’ (and
more) to transform violence. New
Action.
- You can participate in a project
that is listed in our database (media watch, correspond
with refugee children, host a house party to collect
money to rebuild Palestinian homes, curriculum exercises
designed by Eye to Eye, Teaching Tolerance, etc.)
- Invite your friends or colleagues
or community members to participate in a project with
you, whether locally or through the web.
- Document your experience (using photographs,
exhibition panels, artwork, interviews) and tell us
about it.
Change the
Conversation about Violence
You can learn about new thinking
and new ways to act to prevent, stop or heal violence
– and then talk to your friends, families and
co-workers about these new ideas and initiatives. Change
the tone of the conversation from hopelessness to creativity…Inspire
people to see new possibilities…to consider their
own contribution … and to get involved!
Get involved:
- Choose some of the ‘promising
practices’ in our database of international
projects and make a presentation to your classmates,
religious community, officemates, or friends. Facilitate
a discussion about projects that could work well in
your community.
- Work with a group to write an essay
or make a poster about new ways of thinking and acting
in response to violence.
- organize a dialogue rather than a
debate about a burning political issue (for example,
the Israel/Palestine conflict or war as a tool for
combating terrorism). The dialogue can be organized
through your workplace, religious group, service organization,
educational institution or other community group.
Use the guidelines for Eloquent
Listening and Dialogue
Compared with Debate. Invite a facilitator who
is trained in dialogue and listening.
- In discussions with your friends
and colleagues, practice using the guidelines for
Eloquent
Listening and invite others to use them when discussing
controversial topics.
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