Africa Peace and Development Network News and events

Africa Peace and Development Network

Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)

Invitation, News and Events

Dear Participant and Friend of Peace, dear distinguished Guest,

On behalf of the Africa Peace and Development Network and affiliates, I am delighted to welcome you 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 adjust your clock accordingly. We appreciate your participation.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09 (No RSVP or prior registration required)

Theme: Remembering Howard Richards

Speakers: Dr. Evelin Gerda Lindner, Germany & Norway/ Dr. Linda Margaret Hartling, USA/ Dr. Ela Gandhi, South Africa/ Peter Barus, USA/ George Mutalemwa, Tanzania

Evelin Gerda Lindner, Medical Doctor, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Dr. med. (in Psychological Medicine), Dr. psychol. (in Social Psychology), Transdisciplinary Scholar in Social Sciences and Humanities
Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.org), and Co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative (WDUi, www.worlddignityuniversity.org, see also https://youtu.be/qGyPwHC5JdU), including Dignity Press, with imprint World Dignity University Press (www.dignitypress.org) (all initiatives are not-for-profit)
Guest researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway, Department of Psychology (e.g.lindner@psykologi.uio.no, www.sv.uio.no/psi/personer/vit/evelinl/, publications on https://app.cristin.no/persons/show.jsf?id=601)
Affiliated with the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) as part of the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Columbia University, New York City (https://icccr.tc.columbia.edu/about-us/meet-our-team/, egl2109@tc.columbia.edu), and with the Western Institute for Social Research (WISR), Berkeley, California
Affiliated with the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, www.msh-paris.fr, and the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies (RIIFS), Amman, Jordan, https://riifs.org/en/
Publishing and teaching globally, www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/evelin.php
Lectures on dignity and humiliation given at the University of Oslo in Norway (in English and Norwegian) also at www.sv.uio.no/tjenester/kunnskap/podkast/index.html (search for Lindner)
Several awards, HumanDHS Lifetime Achievement Award 2014, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2015, 2016, 2017

Linda Margaret Hartling, PhD, Social Scientist and Humanist

Director, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, www.humiliationstudies.org, lhartling@humiliationstudies.org)
Director of the World Dignity University (WDUi, www.worlddignityuniversity.org) and Dignity Press, with imprint World Dignity University Press (www.dignitypress.org) (all initiatives are not-for-profit)
Research Scientist and Former Associate Director, Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (www.jbmti.org), Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College (www.wcwonline.org)
Several awards, HumanDHS Lifetime Achievement Award 2015, HumanDHS’s work was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2015, 2016, 2017)

Ela Gandhi is the granddaughter of Mohandas Gandhi, also known as ’Mahatma’ (great soul) Gandhi, the man who famously led Indians to independence from their British colonizers in 1946. She was born in 1940 in the Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. An anti-apartheid activist from an early age, she was banned from political activism in 1973 and placed under house arrest for a total of nine years. Gandhi was a member of the Transitional Executive Council and gained a seat as a member of the ANC in Parliament from 1994 to 2003, representing Phoenix which is in the Inanda district. Since leaving parliament, Gandhi has worked tirelessly to fight all forms of violence. She founded the Gandhi Development Trust which promotes non-violence, and was a founder member and chair of the Mahatma Gandhi Salt March Committee. In 2002, she received the Community of Christ International Peace Award and in 2007, in recognition of her work to promote Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy in South Africa, she was awarded the prestigious Padma Bushan award by the Indian Government. https://www.kaiciid.org/who-we-are/advisory-forum/honourable-ela-gandhi

Peter Barus was born in Boston, USA, second of three sons. As a child of
academics, met many international visitors, writers, musicians,
activists, scholars, teachers, poets; from all professions, including a
direct student both of Tagore and Gandhi. The family moved to Nigeria
for his 16th year, where he attended a local school. Returning to the US
in 1964, he participated in the civil rights movement, taking part in
many desegregation actions. Under military conscription, he served as a
conscientious objector in hospital operating rooms for about four years.
In the early 1970s began working as a musician, and with wood
(commercial sailing craft and timber construction). For five years home
was a small wooden sailboat, working coastal fisheries. In the 1980s
started a light manufacturing firm, and from the advent of personal
computers until the late 1990s developed CAD/pricing software for small
businesses. In 1984 began a lifelong study of traditional Japanese
swordsmanship, now at senior teaching rank. In 2010 paralyzed with
Guillain-Barré Syndrome, fortunately a temporary condition, end of
musical skills. Retiring to Vermont, the next decade was spent writing
minutes for a dozen school boards and three villages, keeping bees, and
driving a local elementary to middle-school bus. For the last twenty
years he has found several mentors and begun writing essays and books,
generally about the human condition and its possibilities. More on Peter Barus, please visit: https://attentionage.com/author/pbarus/

Time:

09:00 a.m. Washington, DC

10:00 a. m. Buenos Aires

02:00 p.m. (14:00) 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

12:00 a.m. (00:00) Melbourne

Date: 17 April 2024

Global Peace MAMA Partners

Thanks to generous offers from peacebuilders, development professionals, specialists, academics, researchers, activists, civil society experts, philosophers and intellectuals from around the world, we discuss pertinent issues of peace and sustainability around the world and across Africa. Global Peace is brought to you courtesy of: Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel: University of Vechta, Germany; Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu: UNESCO Chair, Nanjing University, China; Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; The Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM-ASUNICAM), Mwanza, Tanzania; Global Peace Tanzania Network for Sustainable Peace and Development; Dr. Mariana Covolo: Universidad de Congreso (UC), Mendoza, Argentina.

Our key partners include: Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN), International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU/FIUC), International Peace Research Association (IPRA), World Intellectuals’ Wisdom Forum (WIWF), the African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA) and the Commonwealth Interfaith Network (CIN).

News and Events

Latest Global Peace Session

We thank Dr. Hendrik Bullens, Turkey, for leading a discussion on “The Origins of Evil”.

Who Is Howard Richards?

Howard Richards - Academic. Abbreviated from Wikipedia

Howard Richards (born 1938) is a philosopher of Social Science who works with the concepts of basic cultural structure and constitutive rules. He holds a title of Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, a Quaker School in Richmond, Indiana; now retired.

He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Juris Doctor from the Stanford Law School, an Advanced Certificate in Education from Oxford University (the UK) and a Ph.D. in Educational Planning from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. He now teaches at the University of Santiago, Chile, and has ongoing roles at the University of South Africa and the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business program. He is founder of the Peace and Global Studies Program and co-founder of the Business and Nonprofit Management Program at Earlham.

Howard served as a volunteer attorney for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta when they organized farm workers in California’s Central Valley in the 1960’s. In 2021 Howard was the recipient of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Lifetime Commitment Award from Oslo, Norway.

Other book titles by Howard Richards, in chronological order, are as follows:

2022. Economic Theory and Community Development: Why putting community first is essential to our survival

2015. Unbounded Organizing in Community

2012. The Nurturing of Time Future

2011. Gandhi and the Future of Economics

2008: The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a more Just World

2004. Understanding the Global Economy

1994. Letters from Quebec: A Philosophy for Peace and Justice, Volumes I and II or get 448 page book containing both vols.

1984. The Evaluation of Cultural Action - An Evaluative Study of the Parents and Children Program

1966. Life on a Small Planet: a Philosophy of Value

2018 Following Foucault: the tail of the fox

Kindly seealso https://www.transcend.org/tms/2023/02/dignity-humiliation/.

Missing Meetings

“I am missing all my meetings. i do not show up for even onel Regrets. it is because I am sick. I hope to feel better soon.” - Howard Richards (20 January 2024)

Tanzania Conference Donation

The Tanzania Conference is coming soon on 23 May 2024. We are requesting you to support this conference titled “Ujamaa, Ubuntu and New Pan Africanisms: The Future of World Peace”.

The conference is co-sponsored by:

African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA), Africa Peace and Development Network (Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)), Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM/ASUNICAM)) and Pan African Nonviolence and Peacebuilders Network (PANPeN).

Please use any of the following ways most convenient to you to make your contribution. Please write TANZANIA CONFERENCE as the purpose of the donation. Thank you.

1. You can send money to PJSA (Peace & Justice Studies Association) via check or online donation, and AS LONG AS YOU NOTE THIS CONFERENCE.

Checks can be mailed to:

PJSA c/o Dr. Michael Loadenthal

University of Cincinnati

CLIFTCT 5119

2800 Clifton Avenue

Cincinnati OH 45221

Checks can be noted as ’Tanzania Conference’ in the memo line. Donations can be made online https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/donate/ and the same memo can be left in the Comment field.

2. Konto des M.W.A.N.Z.A. e.V.

Bei der Sparkasse Mainfranken:

IBAN: DE31 7905 0000 0043 0217 99

BIC: BYLADEM1SWU

C/o Michael Stolz

Unterdürrbacher Str.346

D-97080 Würzburg

0931 96481

Germany

https://mwanza.de/wp/sw/startpage-sw/

3. Account Name: ACUHIAM SAUT

Bank Name: CRDB Bank

Branch: SAUT

Account Number: 015C442731300

IBAN: 015C442731300

Swift Code: CORUTZTZ

C/o Dr. George Francis Mutalemwa

St. Augustine University of Tanzania

PO Box 307 Mwanza

Tanzania

https://www.fiuc.org/bdf_organisme-328_en.html

4. M-Pesa Account

+255 0756 058 511

C/o George Francis Mutalemwa

Tanzania Conference Registration Information

Here is the registration link for the African Peace Conference in Tanzania with the theme: “Ujamaa, Ubuntu and New Pan Africanisms: The Future of World Peace”.

The link is: https://form.jotform.com/240842605535556

In case this link does not work, please note that the entire registration form is attached.

ONLY IF YOU CANNOT OPEN THE ON-LINE FORM, please carefully send us all the required information via this email address. Thank you.

Tanzania Conference Updates

We are pleased to give you updates regarding the International Peace Conference in Tanzania scheduled for 23rd - 25th May 2024 under the theme “Ujamaa, Ubuntu and New Pan Africanisms: The Future of World Peace”.

The Organising Committee, at its meeting on 04-04-2024, resolved that accommodation, meals and shuttle services between Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) and MS TCDC (popularly known as Danish) will be covered. Therefore, participants need to pay for the registration fee: USD 50 for Africa-based participants and 150 for participants from outside the continent as earlier indicated. Participants are requested to make their own international travel arrangements to and from KIA. Here is the registration link: https://form.jotform.com/240842605535556

In case one wishes to take part in the excursion to Mwanza from MS TCDC on 26-27 May 2024, a total of USD 500 (for both Arusha and Mwanza) should be paid. For those who will be interested in the excursion, there will be a possibility for them to board their flights from Mwanza airport or travel by road. We are looking forward to seeing you soon.

Rome publishes Statement on Interreligious Dialogue in Africa

Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue issued the Final Statement from the Consultative Workshop for Bishops’ Commissions for Interreligious Dialogue in Africa and Madagascar on 10 April 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. https://www.dicasteryinterreligious.va/dicastery-publishes-final-statement-from-africa-consultative-workshop/

Global Peace Feedback

In order to improve our sessions we are happy to receive your feedback. In this case, please just send me an email or call me on WhatsApp +255 756 058 511. Thank you.

Webinar Talk Offers

If you would like to give us a talk on any of the issues related to peace and/ or sustainable development, please drop me a line and invite your colleagues to Global Peace. Thank you. A schedule of speakers is attached.

Should you wish not to participate in these transcontinental sessions, kindly let me know. We respect each one’s opinion and everyone’s dignity. Welcome to Global Peace.

MAMA WhatsApp Group

You are warmly invited to join the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) WhatsApp Group. Please text me via +255 756 058 511 to join MAMA or click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BBkeESocCNw6xHfvlaRznv

The webinar link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09

Yours sincerely,

George Mutalemwa

Moderator: Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa

Dr. George Mutalemwa
Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa Peace and Development Network/ Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)
Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUHIAM)
St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT)
PO Box 307 Mwanza, Tanzania
Email: george.mutalemwa@saut.ac.tz
Phone (WhatsApp): +255 756 058 511
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-92474-4