Free Community Lecture on Embracing the Ethnic Diversity of British Columbia: Strategies for creating healthy communities
The International Education for Peace Institute, in association with the Justice Institute of British Columbia, is offering a free evening seminar on Thursday, 19 August, 2004 to offer insights into how we can achieve healthy, and violence free communities.
(PRWEB) August 6, 2004
One of the wonderful features of living in British Columbia is the richness and diversity offered with the inclusion of people of different races and ethnicities intermingled within the province. Living within a multicultural and multiracial community also brings challenges. Racism, bullying, conflicts and tensions are common elements within communities where people are not equipped with skills to overcome the differences that come from exposure to different cultures.
Differences do not need to be barriers that lead to conflict and aggression. Together, we in British Columbia, can embrace the Ethnic Diversity that exists within our communities, and learn to use the unifying elements to create healthy, vibrant and creative communities.
The evening lecture, presented by Dr. Hossain B. Danesh, will be held at the Justice Institute of British Columbia in the Theatre. The Justice Institute of BC is located at 715 McBride Boulevard, New Westminster, B. C. and will take place on 19 August, 2004 from 6:30 PM - 8:30PM. Admission is free.
Professor Dr. H. B. Danesh is the founder and director of the International Education for Peace Institute in Switzerland. Dr. Danesh is also former president of Landegg International University as well as a professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies. He is an author, international lecturer and consultant, with more than thirty years of academic and clinical experience as a psychiatrist.
Dr. Danesh’s areas of research and expertise include the causes and prevention of violence, marriage and family therapy, death and dying, consultation and conflict resolution, ethics, spiritual psychology and world order and peace studies. Dr. Danesh is the author and creator of the internationally acclaimed Education for Peace Program, first piloted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000.
This lecture is open to members of the general public interested in creating healthy communities, Community Planners, Community Activists, Politicians (Federal, Provincial, Local), representatives of Municipal Police departments and RCMP, representatives from Aboriginal and Multicultural Communities, Social/Family workers, Educators, Students, Practitioners, Mediators, Conflict Resolution workers, and Media representatives.
Please contact Stacey Makortoff at Education for Peace International at: +1-778-861-0645 for more information. For more information about the International Education For Peace Institute, please visit www. efpinternational. org.
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