Peacemaking After Deadly Conflict: A Presentation by David Zarembka about healing in African nations.

David Zarembka, a graduate of Harvard University, Coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative, and author of A Peace of Africa, will speak to these questions:
∙    Are revenge, hatred, and another round of violence the only possibilities         after deadly conflict?
∙    Can healing and reconciliation between enemies occur?

David has spent his adult life in Africa devoted to bringing peace to nations which have had deadly civil wars: Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Congo and Kenya.  He will describe with compelling stories, how the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is used to bring all sides of a conflict back together.  From this program, he will tell how the Rwandans and Burundians developed a program Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities to heal personal and community trauma.  These programs are all supported by the African Great Lakes Initiative of the Friends Peace Teams.  More information can be found on these websites:  www.dgquakers.org  and  http://www.aglifpt.org/