Nonviolent Resistance to Militarisation and Autocratisation

Can We Build Alliances for Peace, Freedom and Nonviolence?
Welome to a conversation on nonviolent and peaceful resistance to militarisation and autocratisation in US, UK and Sweden and through global movements!

CONVERSATION 1: Resisting militarisation in US, UK and Sweden 
• Phill Gittins, Director of Education, World BEYOND War, UK Office
• Joanne Sheehan, Staff at War Resisters League, US and former Chair of War Resisters International
• Kerstin Bergeå, Chair of Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, Sweden

CONVERSATION 2: Resisting autocratisation in US and Sweden
• Jamila Raqib, Executive Director, Albert Einstein Institution, US
• Stellan Vinthagen, Professor of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance, Amherst University, US and Professor of Sociology, Sweden
• Kristina Wicksell Bukhari, Communication Strategist, Arena Opinon and Arena Idea
• Seinab Hilowle, Committed member of the democracy-promoting, intersectional organization StreetGäris

CONVERSATION 3: On cross-context learning and collaboration. What can activists and movements do?
This conversation is for the participants of the event in Umeå and will be facilitated by Stella Fischer, Independent International Consultant and Facilitator who has worked in Sweden and internationally with and through nonviolence

The first two conversations will be facilitated by Elisabeth Olivius, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Umeå University.

All panelists participate digitally.

This is an open seminar – free entrance

Organizers:

• Department of Political Science, Umeå University
• Swedish Fellowship of Reconcilliation
• Swedish Section of Women´s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
• Another Development Foundation
• Härnösands folkhögskola
• Studieförbundet Bilda

REGISTRATION
Register, free of charge, to secure a place in the auditorium in Umeå or to recieve an invitation with a link to the webcast.
www.bilda.nu/nonviolence-umea

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This seminar, is a part of Ickevåld 2024 – a forum for nonviolent movements, activists and researchers.