Webinar #3: Nonviolence, consensus, and politics coming together across difference
Webinar Series: The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence
Nonviolence is about a willingness to appreciate our coexistence, to respect our mutuality, our entanglement, and our differences, and to seek a path forward together.
In this way, a commitment to nonviolence is fundamentally intertwined with a commitment to consensus decision-making. And, indeed, strengthening our commitment to nonviolence goes hand in hand with strengthening our commitment to consensus.
It’s no coincidence that two of the Australian Greens’ best and most respected facilitators of consensus and difficult decision-making are also two of our staunchest activists for peace, and we are enormously privileged to have Janet Rice and Giz Watson join us for the third webinar in our series, The Missing Peace, on October 2.
Together, we will explore how a shift in approach away from knee-jerk adversarialism and towards a willingness to come together across difference can transform politics from the hyper-local to the global, from communities and branches through to parliaments and geopolitics.
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Janet Rice, recently retired from a decade in the Senate, used her superb facilitation skills as Party Room Chair to ensure consensus across different opinions for most of that time. In her role as spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, she promoted peace consistently. Throughout her career, Janet has been involved in nonviolent direct action, for forests, climate and more.
Giz Watson served four terms as an MLC in the Western Australian parliament, and has held numerous roles in the Greens, including co-convenor. Involved in both antiwar and environmental protests from the 1970s on, Giz participated in and trained activists for the nonviolent protests for peace and nuclear disarmament at Greenham Common in the UK in the 1980s.
Register below to join in the discussion. This webinar is the third in a series we’re hosting over the coming months as part of our project The Missing Peace: Talking About Nonviolence. We look forward to having you along!
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