Europe: Pace e Bene Workshops

In January 2006 Pace Bene Australia Associate Brendan McKeague and Pace e Bene staff-person Veronica Pelicaric facilitated seven Pace e Bene workshops and gatherings in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. These programs including a four-day From Violence To Wholeness Facilitator Co-Learning Retreat hosted by Pax Christi UK and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. Twenty-eight organizers and members of the peace movement and religious justice and peace agencies in the United Kingdom and Italy took part in this workshoptraining.

In November 2008 McKeague led a Pace e Bene workshops in Ireland and Scotland, including with the Global Education Centre in Glasgow. Members of the GEC work in inner city Glasgow and are grounding their work for justice in Pace e Bene’s nonviolence principles.