✅ How can creative approaches to complex problems be more impactful?
✅ How can we, as arts- and culture-based peacebuilders, be more strategic in harnessing our limited resources?
✅ How can we learn to make sense of the intersecting layers of the complex realities that are present in our communities and in our world?
IMPACT invites you to grapple with these questions in a series of participatory workshops, where we can be introduced to main approaches to systems theory and support each other to apply them to our own practices.
We will ;
🔹 Listen to compelling stories from leading systems thinkers who work in the peacebuilding field
🔹 Distill the key elements of their approaches, and
🔹 Meet in small groups to think through the implications for our own practice
🔹 Share emerging insights and questions
Stories of interventions based on systems thinking with leading practitioners.
We are planning a series of three events.
Session 1:
📅 April 14, 6 pm CET | 12 pm ET with Dr. Benjamin Broome and Dr. Polly Walker (IMPACT Senior Fellow)
Session 2:
📅 May 15, 4 PM EDT with Scot Nakagawa and Julia Roig (Horizons Project)
Benjamin Broome, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, held the position of Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University (ASU) from 1999-2024. His work focuses on developing ways to help groups, organizations, and communities Read More
respond to conflict through dialogue rather than violence. He believes that to meaningfully address the increasingly complex and contentious issues facing our contemporary world we must engage stakeholders in collective design processes that foster both diversity of perspectives and strength of connections. Over the past thirty years, Professor Broome has facilitated design workshops in North America, Europe, and the eastern Mediterranean, working with educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, government entities, and indigenous nations and communities. He has published books, journal articles, and book chapters on a variety of topics, including the application of interactive design processes to promote peace in ethnic conflicts; building a culture of peace through intergroup dialogue; understanding relational empathy and its role in transforming intercultural conflict; developing a collective vision of the future in divided societies; and challenges and promises of the third-party role in intractable conflicts. His publications have appeared in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Peace Research, International Negotiation, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Management Communication Quarterly, Human Communication Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Social Psychology, International Journal of Conflict Management, Small Group Research, American Indian Quarterly, Communication Education, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and in several Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and other edited volumes.
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Polly Walker is of Cherokee ancestry and a member of the Cherokee Southwest Township. She is Associate Professor Emeritus, Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College. Polly earned her PhD at Australia’s University of Queensland where her research focused on Read More
conflict transformation between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians. Polly is co-editor of the two-volume “Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict”. She also contributed to the documentary “Acting Together on the World Stage,” and is co-author of the accompanying toolkit. She was a director of the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute of Australia. Polly serves as Chair of the Indigenous Education Institute whose work supports ethical collaboration with Indigenous peoples and Western scientists supporting the revitalization of Indigenous knowledge systems.
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