There's Still Hope & Here's Why!

This past Human Right's day we held the second part of There's Still Hope! It was a wonderful day of conversation and action planning. Watch HERE

From Tulsa to Hiroshima and from Auschwitz to the Trail of Tears and downwards throughout human history, the scenes of death and destruction are the same. The root causes of these atrocities are the same too: cultures of violence, fueling systems of oppression. 

What can the people do to reclaim their rightful democratic power when corrupt governments fail to honor the contracts that ensure we live in a civil society with a sustainable future?

This action-driven conversation, co-sponsored by PEAC Institute, General Board of Church & Society with support from Every Woman Matrix, NGO Committee on Financing for Development Working Group on Climate Finance, will explore the challenge of dismantling oppressive and systemic cultures of violence.

Through both historical and contemporary lenses, we will highlight some of the terrifying consequences we're facing due to failed and incomplete remediations of the imperial colonialist culture of violence, while also offering examples of nature-based solutions that people are successfully implementing today.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are officially out of reach, and our window of opportunity to switch from war economies that prioritize money to peace economies that prioritize people and the planet is closing. Join us now for the first part of this crucial dialogue.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• CARMEN ATZERT Watershed Foundation

• LEON KAULAHAO SIU Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Hawaii

• ROBERTO BORRERO Chair of the NGO Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

MODERATORS & SUPPORT

• REBECCA IRBY PEAC Institute

• QUINN WONDERLING General Board of Church and Society, United Methodist Church

• AIMEE H. HONG General Board of Church & Society, United Methodist Church