Public Panel: “Dialoguing for Peace: Contextualizing Continued Cycles of Violence Against Women and Men in South Africa"
A public panel on violence and masculinities titled “Dialoguing for Peace: Contextualizing Continued Cycles of Violence Against Women and Men in South Africa" will be held on the 3rd of March. The Monday evening panel is open to the public and it is our hope that it will strengthen ongoing dialogues focusing on the implication of living in a historically violent society.
The panel will begin with a commemorative candle lighting in celebration of the lives of the mothers of the young men killed in the Gugulethu Seven killings March 3, 1986 Gugulethu, Cape Town. It will be held at Slave Lodge on 3 March 2008 from 17:30-21:00. The panel will be in conjunction with the national working conference “Working for Peace: Black Men Transforming Identities and Memories of Violence.” The date of the public event was chosen in commemoration of international struggles for gender rights, preceding International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. The public event is organised by the DACPM, marking its 10th year of peace activism, and supported by Medico International e.V., celebrating 40 years of existence as a human rights organisation.
Confirmed
speakers for the public panel include:
Mary Burton, former TRC Commissioner and Black Sash President
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, former TRC Commissioner, author and professor
Yazir Henri,
Director of the Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory
Evening Program:
17.30 – 18.00 – Visiting the exhibitions at the Slave Lodge
18.15 – 18.45 – Commemorative Opening
19.00 – 20.00 – Public Panel
20.00 – 21.00 – Light Finger Foods
If you have further questions, please call Ammon China, Elli Simon or Ema Land at 021 448 5760. Also attached find background information to the Working Conference.
In Peace,
Yazir Henri
Centre Director, DACPM