[van-announce] Interfaith Summer Institute Full Program - Early Registration

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Interfaith Summer Institute Full Program - Early Registration Now!

Early bird registration ends in three weeks- May 15, so we encourage you to
register now for the ISI's exciting 2008 program. Course descriptions and
public forums are listed below and you can check our website
www.interfaithjustpeace.org <http://www.interfaithjustpeace.org/>  for more
information. the resource people.   

Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice Peace and Social Movements
Displacement and Migration: Restoring Dignity and Sacred Connection

PUBLIC FORUMS

June 14, 2008
Aboriginal Worldviews on Truth and Reconciliation

June 27-28, 2008
Human Dignity and 2010 Olympics: Challenging the Trafficking of Women   

SUMMER PROGRAM August 5-15 , 2008

August 5-8
Decolonizing the Body and Indigenous Principles: Connecting through
Creativity
Alannah Young and Denise Nadeau

This course will combine theory and practice to present an approach to
healing from racist, colonial and sexual violence. This method, initially
developed with Indigenous women living in inner city Vancouver, combines
expressive arts therapies with ceremony and ritual and draws on Indigenous
Knowledge as a framework for healing. The course will use a training format
and will be useful for those who work with women who have experienced
multiple forms of violence, including intergenerational violence,
residential schooling, sexual violence and the violence of forced migration.


August 7
Interfaith Organizing Around Economic Justice
Israel Alvaran

August 8
Welcoming Ceremony and Panel 

August 9
Sanctuary: Creating Zones of Peace Against State Violence 

August 10
Solitude and the Land: a morning to experience the holiness of the land

August 11-15, 2008
Religion's Role in Peacebuilding: Sikhs and Muslims in Malerkotla, Punjab
and Beyond
Karenjot Bhangoo

This course is organized around the topic of Punjabi and Sikh history with
an emphasis on diverse perspectives in interreligious understanding that can
be used in peacemaking. It will examine a case study of how Sikhism
interacted with other religions, primarily Islam, in the Punjab, as an
example of how religion manifested in conflict and peace in the
twentieth-century. Thematically, the course is organized around identifying
major topics and trends linked to religious peacemaking in the Punjab as
well as in Diaspora communities. This course will build skills in
intercultural understanding, cross-cultural awareness, and conflict
transformation.

The Girl Child, African Women, Religion and HIV&AIDS
Esther Mombo

In the fall of 2007 The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians met in
Cameroon on the subject of women, religion and HIV/AIDS.. The Circle and its
methodology is set within the ecumenical and multi-faith context of its
membership, which consists of members of African Traditional Religions,
Christianity, Islam and Judaism. This course will consider how the
methodology of the circle has been applied to the subject of women and
HIV/AIDS.

Mass Media's Role in Progressive Politics and Religion
Robert Jenson and Junaid Ahmad

The vast majority of mainstream media coverage reflects and reinforces the
perspective of the culture's most powerful institutions, offering a picture
of the world that is supportive of economic inequality and First-World
domination, and that, in subtle ways, remains patriarchal and
white-supremacist. In coverage of religion, journalists tend to default to
centrist and conservative definitions of faith, with most stories relegating
issues of faith to lifestyle sections. This course will offer critical
analysis and skills training for groups engaged in long-term projects to
enhance media literacy and create a more just and democratic media system.
It will offer skills in (1) how to be more effective in working with
mainstream journalists, and (2) how to create better independent media.

Truth and Reconciliation: The Politics and Possibilities of Memory
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Angela Contreras-Chavez with Chief Robert Joseph

The course will offer different perspectives on the meaning of truth-telling
and reconciliation in the present context of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission on Residential Schools in Canada. It will consider critical
analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of past Truth and Reconciliation
Commissions and will examine the Inter-Diocesan Project "Recovery of the
Historic Memory" in Guatemala, which played a double role as a venue for
Mayan participants to honour the memory of their loved ones and as the basis
for developing healing programs for the survivors. It will provide a forum
to discuss how the present TRC process can be used to create
community-driven, community- based projects that can benefit grassroots
Indigenous communities.

Islam in the Hinterlands: A Critical Exploration of Canadian Muslim Cultural
Politics
Jasmin Zine 

This course will allow participants to develop a critical understanding of
some contemporary issues in Muslim Canadian Studies such as the debates on
"Reasonable Accommodation in Quebec, Herrouxville Citizen's Code, security
policies, Muslim youth and "home grown terror," shariah tribunals, religion
and multiculturalism. The seminar will also involve a critical interrogation
of Canadian Muslim cultural politics, the development of social movements
like Progressive Islam and the neo-conservative influence of Islamist
groups. Through these contemporary issues we will examine the dialectics
between Islamophobia and religious extremism within the Canadian context. In
order to assist educators and social justice activists in challenging
Islamophobia, the seminar will also provide an introduction to curricular
resources for Anti-Islamophobia education.