Friday, 27 April 2012
Sunday, 22 April 2012
Miss you darling!
"Sarah Aftergood is a Newcastle University student who is doing a
Masters project on the changes of abundance of certain warm water fish
species along the east coast of the UK.
She has formulated a survey to help her with her project based on individual recollection, asking if you have caught any of the fish species mentioned..."
My cousin Sarah is across the pond working on her graduate project in the environmental sciences and was recently featured in the Sunday Sun, you can see the article here.
She has formulated a survey to help her with her project based on individual recollection, asking if you have caught any of the fish species mentioned..."
My cousin Sarah is across the pond working on her graduate project in the environmental sciences and was recently featured in the Sunday Sun, you can see the article here.
Speaking the Language of Peace.
I am continuing on my long journey towards becoming a Wise Woman by starting a PhD at the University of Ottawa. I am studying with Canada Research Chair Lori Beaman, an incredibly Wise Woman who will certainly teach me many things.
I am writing about peace education, diversity and spirituality.
This is very broad. By the end of the summer I hope to have 'framed' my project. Writing out my thoughts will hopefully help me to organize them.
Today, I am thinking about Speaking the Language of Peace. This is partially inspired by a form of violence the Jains explained to me, which is the violence of words. Our language can be used to help or to harm, inflicting as much violence upon others as actions. Reducing the will to harm others means changing the way you speak into a language of non-violence.
The other inspiration for these thoughts is the peace education organization I volunteer with called CISV International. It teaches the value of peace and intercultural dialogue to children around the world through interaction. It is an organization that has created its own language of operation, and has generated activities which rely on non-verbal interaction as well as music for intercultural communication.
I believe that an important part of Speaking the Language of Peace is destabilizing deeply-rooted prejudice and being committed to equality. I think it is approaching strangers with compassion and the desire to understand and be understood.
I am writing about peace education, diversity and spirituality.
This is very broad. By the end of the summer I hope to have 'framed' my project. Writing out my thoughts will hopefully help me to organize them.
Today, I am thinking about Speaking the Language of Peace. This is partially inspired by a form of violence the Jains explained to me, which is the violence of words. Our language can be used to help or to harm, inflicting as much violence upon others as actions. Reducing the will to harm others means changing the way you speak into a language of non-violence.
The other inspiration for these thoughts is the peace education organization I volunteer with called CISV International. It teaches the value of peace and intercultural dialogue to children around the world through interaction. It is an organization that has created its own language of operation, and has generated activities which rely on non-verbal interaction as well as music for intercultural communication.
I believe that an important part of Speaking the Language of Peace is destabilizing deeply-rooted prejudice and being committed to equality. I think it is approaching strangers with compassion and the desire to understand and be understood.
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