DUBLIN PEACE POD

PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH leading international peacebuilders

on

   

CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE      

     

WEDNESDAY JULY 2 2014 7PM    

Doyle’s bar, college green, Dublin 2  

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DUBLIN PEACE POD  

 

CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE LAUNCH EVENT

speakers & facilitators

IFRAH AHMED  

SOMALIA  

 Ifrah Ahmed is a Somali social activist. She is the founder of the NGO United Youth of Ireland, (https://www.facebook.com/UnitedYouthofIreland) bringing together dedicated young people aged 15 - 25 from many countries (including Ireland, Africa and Eastern Europe) who form a vibrant cadre of volunteers working for a cause in service of the communities where they operate. UYI also supports young people from migrant communities in their artistic, creative and business endeavours. Having fled the Somali civil war, Ifrah landed in Dublin in 2006 to begin a new life in exile as an asylum seeker from one of the most intractable conflicts on the African continent. She quickly found herself in social activism, fighting for the rights of new communities in Ireland, such as refugees and newcomers from Africa, East Europe and other parts of the world. Her recent campaigning against gender-based violence and FGM (female genital mutilation) has raised awareness for this issue and brought it to the attention of UN Ambassador, Angelina Jolie. She is also the founder of the Ifrah Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/IfrahFoundation) to help Somali children devastated by war.

 

IAN WHITE

IRELAND

 Ian White has worked at the forefront of international peacebuilding for the better part of thirty years. Originally from Belfast, Ian worked as Chief Executive and as the International Programme Director of the Glencree Cetnre for Peace & Reconciliation. (www.glencree.ie). He was instrumental in establishing Glencree as one of the

world’s most significant peacebuilding organisations. Glencree peacebuilding programmes aim to extend the lessons learned from the Northern Ireland peace process to groups in other conflict situations to help them form their own peace processes. Ian has worked in many countries including Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Haiti and Liberia. He has also played a major role in the development of Political Dialogue work at Glencree.    

     

EAMON RAFTER    

IRELAND        

 Eamon Rafter is the Learning Co-ordinator at Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation (www.glencree.ie) where he has worked since 2005. He is a peace educator and facilitator with responsibility for education and training programmes with schools, youth, university, adult and community groups. He has worked on peacebuilding programmes in Ireland north and south, Israel & Palestine, South Africa, Afghanistan and in many European countries.          

   

                                                                                     

MARC LEVITTE

FRANCE    

 Marc Levitte has worked as a business and management consultant and coach for thirty years helping people and corporations to reach their potential and maximise their productivity. He uses approaches that facilitate personal wisdom and collective intelligence with participatory methods. Marc has been working with humanitarian programmes in West Africa, India and South America, including the Vibrant Village Foundation, Ecuador (http://www.vibrantvillage.org), the Prem Rawat Foundation (www.tprf.org) and Montana de Esperanza, Ecuador

(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Montaña-de-Esperanza/415442289497) with a peacebuilding programme with local street gangs. He is the co-founder of the NGO APBE (Agir pour la Paix et le Bien Etre) in Cote

d’Ivoire (http://www.ong-apbe.org/accueil.php).

                                               

SARAH FRANKLYN  

IRELAND  

  Sarah Franklyn is the founder of The Dublin Peace POD & Natural Capital Services (www.naturalcapitalservices.com), a social enterprise organisation that develops environmental agricultural education training programmes, with a specific focus on gender and subsistence farmer empowerment through the development of sustainable livelihoods in 30 countries including Kenya, S.Africa, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, & also in the Middle East.

NCS advocates that community-based natural resource management, environmental sustainability and sustainable livelihoods can be major factors in “Creating a Culture of Peace”.