You Can Do It! Alternative Community Safety, Peace Teams, and Nonviolence
May 21st at 11am-1pm PT / 12-2pm MT / 1-3pm CT / 2-4pm ET
This training is free, but donations to support DC Peace Team are deeply appreciated
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Join Eli McCarthy of the DC Peace Team in an online training on the approachable, versatile, and effective ways you and local friends can stop violence and engage alternative safety programs rooted in active nonviolence. You will learn about peace teams, violence de-escalation, and active bystander trainings. This webinar will prepare you to bring these approaches to your local community in tangible ways.
This special webinar is offered in support of Campaign Nonviolence Action Days' Sept 27th "Alternative Community Safety & End Militarized Policing Day of Action." On this day, we ask you to join us in the oppose/propose strategy of ending militarized policing AND uplifting the many viable forms of alternative community safety. This webinar on May 21st will prepare you to organize and train a small group in violence de-escalation and take action locally. We're hoping you will do things like offer nonviolent security at a farmers market, be a conflict resolution “patrol” at a football or soccer game, or organize a student conflict resolution team to help deal with fights at school. Learn more and sign-up for the Action Day here.
Note: We would love to see ALL of our Campaign Nonviolence organizers at this training. (It's fantastic and will be inspiring for September Action Days.) Please invite your local friends to join us, too. Reach out to people in your community who work with students, anti-violence efforts, etc., and get ready to take action together in September!
Presenter
Eli McCarthy has led numerous training in nonviolent communication, unarmed civilian protection, and bystander intervention. He also helps facilitate the deployments of DCPT’s unarmed civilian protection units. He is a professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the Justice and Peace Studies Program. His most recent book is titled A Just Peace Ethic: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020). In 2012, Eli published Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy. He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti, where he worked with people living in poverty, working with people experiencing homelessness in Boston and Washington, DC, monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and leading strategic nonviolent resistance campaigns.