Africa Peace and Development Network News and events

On behalf of the Africa Peace and Development Network and affiliates, to Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa (Global Peace), a series of weekly academic and professional discussions on peace education, peace research, and peace activism as well as on the question of sustainable development. Global Peace events take place every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi, using the Zoom link below. Please do adjust your clock accordingly. We appreciate your participation.

Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/eVhRWeTH (No RSVP or prior registration required)

15 May 2024 - Webinar - Reaching for Peace: Searching for Home in Liminal Spaces

Prof. Therese Sacco is an activist academic and educator as well as the President of St Augustine College, the Catholic University in South Africa.

The areas of research and publication include: Peer sexual harassment and peer violence; The South African truth & reconciliation commission; Social work and spirituality in a South African context; Humanising the accused - The social worker’s contribution in mitigation of sentence; Violence and peace - The social worker’s brief?; Politicizing welfare and humanizing politics; Loving what is - Engaging with unaccompanied minors and young migrants in Soweto; Inequality, health, wellbeing in South Africa; Site of Memory - A reconciliation project with displaced people in Johannesburg, South Africa; "Princesses" and others - Parental and sibling perceptions of black pupils attending a Roman Catholic, non-racial primary school.

Prof Sacco created, designed, and taught postgraduate modules that embrace topics such as: Violence in the South African context; Recovering from Violence; Transitional Justice, Reconstruction and Reconciliation; decoloniality; contemporary social issues; and elements of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
Her educative horizon inheres critical reflexivity, beholds contemplation, envisions decoloniality and reconciliation discourses that foreground colonial & societal trauma. She hopes that her students take delight in their thinking, connect with their truth and social agency, think critically, and forge lives that make the world a better place.

Time:
09:00 a.m. Washington, DC
10:00 a. m. Buenos Aires
03:00 p.m. (15:00) Berlin
04:00 p.m. (16:00) Dar-es-Salaam – Kampala – Nairobi
09:00 p.m. (21:00) Nanjing
10:00 p.m. (22:00) Tokyo
11:00 p.m. (23:00) Melbourne