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The Positive Peace Warrior Network (PPWN) works towards culture of positive peace through the institutionalization of Kingian Nonviolence. By providing communities with the opportunity to explore the skill and will of Dr. Kings philosophy, we will learn from the past, creatively apply lessons to our present and foster a better future. For more info: http://www.ppwn.org Photo: Dr. Bernard Lafayette speaks at the International Day of Peace hosted by PPWN in Oakland, CA on September 21, 2012.

For the first time in Philadelphia, the Positive Peace Warrior Network will present a 2-day orientation to Kingian nonviolence with civil rights luminary Dr. Bernard Lafayette on February 8-9, 2013. In addition to describing Kingian nonviolence, this sponsorship guide highlights ways you might promote your organization or business while demonstrating support for building a culture of peace. Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6-7 Page 8 Benefits of sponsorship Flyer for 2-day orientation to Kingian Nonviolence (Your logo could be here!) Kingian Nonviolence Defined Description of the 2-day orientation to Kingian Nonviolence Workshop presenters bios Sponsorship categories Sponsorship offers several benefits promotional opportunities reaching growing and diverse networks of communities recognition in pre-event and event publicity advertising and/or acknowledgement in event program materials partnership with a growing national network of professionals working directly with community groups, schools, prisons, and other institutions to teach nonviolence

A 2-day orientation to KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE with Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr.

Dr. Bernard Lafayette - original Freedom Rider, cofounder of SNCC, Selma organizer and national coordinator for the poor peoples campaign recalls Dr. Martin Luther Kings last words to him in Memphis on April 4, 1968: He said to me: Bernard, the next thing were going to do is to institutionalize and internationalize nonviolence.
Photo via PBS: The Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, right, with Dr. Martin Luther King at a news conference in Atlanta on January 16, 1968. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly)

February 8-9, 2013 Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA 19102
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COST: $150.00 for 2-days $300.00 for academic or corporate staff

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for (people) to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. (People) must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize acceptance speech Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964 Nonviolence is aggressive and assertive to changing the institutionalized polices, practices and conditions that deny people their full dignity as human beings Nonviolence resists; it challenges the peaceful nature of unjust conditions. ~The Leaders Manual on Kingian Nonviolence
What is Kingian Nonviolence? Kingian Nonviolence is a philosophy developed out of the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by some of his close allies. It is a philosophy and methodology that provides the knowledge, skills, and motivation necessary for people to pursue peaceful strategies for solving personal and community problems. Kingian nonviolence has been used successfully in schools and prisons to reduce violence, in personal relationships to reconcile conflict, and in movements to create social change. Often mistaken for being simply the absence or opposite of violence, Nonviolence is, rather, a systematic framework of both conceptual principles and pragmatic strategies to reduce violence and promote positive peace at the community, national, and global levels. In recent history, nonviolence has come to be recognized as a significant alternative for students, communities, and whole societies to effectively deal with the conditions they face locally, nationally, and internationally. During the 20th century, the successful social movements of Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the United States led to greater public awareness of new dimensions of nonviolent conflict reconciliation.

Bernard Lafayette, Jonathan Lewis, Kazu Haga of the Positive Peace Warrior Network (PPWN) led a 2-day orientation to Kingian Nonviolence in Oakland, CA on September 22-23, 2012.

ABOUT THE 2-DAY ORIENTATION TO KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE

Positive Peace Warrior (PPWN) nonviolence trainers will introduce community participants to the Kingian Nonviolence philosophy and the ways Kingian nonviolence, as espoused by Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., might be utilized to work with community leadership in nonviolent conflict reconciliation and story-telling. This 2-day orientation is designed to explore how the philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence has been used to prevent violence and identify violent prone situations. The course will focus on violence prevention and violent prone situations using the philosophy of Kingian Nonviolence. The 2-day educational program will introduce: The Skill and the Will of Dr. Kings philosophy of nonviolence Ways to incorporate the Kingian philosophy of nonviolence as an additional tool in their interaction at school, home and within their communities. Participants will learn ways to: De-escalate conflicts in interpersonal disputes. Distinguish between constructive and destructive conflict that can lead to forms of violence. Apply Dr. King's methodology and strategy to mobilize the six basic community leadership groups to effectively address conflict in the school and community. Reframe issues in conflicts, so that the energy is directed toward --causes--not symptoms.

SUMMARY OF KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE TRAINING

The training will use a modular learning format based on the Kingian Leadership Training Program. It will provide assistance in developing methods and techniques to address conflict nonviolently. The curriculum embodies the philosophy of nonviolent social change as applied to a broad spectrum of individual, group, institutions and systemic conflicts. The nonviolence educational program is being implemented with the intention of equipping community organizations and individuals with the tools necessary to create substantial change guided by the philosophy of nonviolence while we move into the 21st Century.

About the POSITIVE PEACE WARRIOR NETWORK http://www.ppwn.org

In 2012, PPWN trained over 1,200 people in Kingian Nonviolence! This includes working with 350 incarcerated men and women and 350 youth. That's over 40 trainings, each one at least 2 days long, in 9 states across the country. We are making an impact! Kingian Nonviolence changes lives. North Lawndale College Prep High School, a school that has committed to Kingian Nonviolence, has seen a 90% decrease in violence on campus over 4 years. Bella Vista Prison in Colombia is now a nonviolent institution where inmates train local youth in nonviolence. And thousands of militant fighters in Nigeria have now put down their weapons and continue to struggle for justice through nonviolent means.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr.

Longtime civil rights activist and organizer, the Rev. Dr. Lafayette is an authority on nonviolent social change. A key leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, TN in 1960, he co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, joined the Freedom Rides in 1961, directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962 and continued to lead the Selma (AL) movement in 1965. He was appointed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to be national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and national coordinator of the 1968 Poor Peoples Campaign. Currently the Board Chair of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Dr. Lafayette is Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Chandler School of Theology of Emory University. Dr. Lafayette has also served as Director of Peace and Justice in Latin America; Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama. Dr. Lafayette is a former President of the American Baptist College of ABT Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee; Scholar in Residence at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia, and Pastor emeritus of the Progressive Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the Founder and National President of God-Parents Clubs, Inc., a national community based program aimed at preventing the systematic incarceration of young Black youth; a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and founder of the Association For Kingian Nonviolence, Education and Training Works. Having earned a doctorate in education from Harvard University, he is the co-author of the Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation training curriculum, and works to fulfill Dr. Kings final marching orders, to institutionalize and internationalize nonviolence.

Jonathan L. Lewis (aka Globe)

Jonathan L. Lewis (aka Globe) is a Senior Kingian Nonviolence Trainer who started working with the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and served on the International Global Conference Series from 2000-2004 as a youth representative. Dr. Lafayette, Jr. introduced and trained him in the philosophy and methodology of Kingian Nonviolence in the late 1990s, and continues to this day. Jonathan has trained all over the United States and abroad, including in Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, Israel, and Nigeria. One of his highest honors was to be selected by the former Executive Director Malia Lazu and approved by Elder Harry Belafonte to serve as one of three national staff of the Gathering for Justice, from January 2008 October 2010. During that time, he served as The Gatherings National Director of Nonviolence Direct Action Training and exposed over one thousand community leaders to the Kingian Nonviolence philosophy and conducted 18 Kingian Nonviolence 2 Day Core trainings through the United States.

Dr. Joan May T. Cordova (aka Joanie @ForCommunities )

Having completed Kingian nonviolence institutes led by Dr. Lafayette and Jonathan Lewis, Dr. Cordova is a certified level 2 Kingian nonviolence trainer. Initially trained by San Francisco Community Boards mediation program, she organized and trained an elementary school mediation team in California and eventually spent eight years leading her own Peaceable School institutes throughout the USA and Canada as part of National Educators for Social Responsibilitys (ESR) professional development team. As a teacher education professor, she served as founding director of Drexel Universitys Multicultural Collaborative. Currently on the board of Asian Americans United (AAU) in Philadelphia, shes the oral historian and co-curator of AAU and Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP)s exhibit We Cannot Keep Silent that documents civil rights organizing by Asian immigrant students and adult allies in response to violence at S. Philly High. A lifelong multimedia oral historian and educator, she earned a doctorate from Harvard University. In addition to assisting with training, Joanie will be organizing logistics and creating promotional materials for the 2-day orientation to Kingian Nonviolence in Philadelphia. For additional information or questions, please contact her at Joan.May.Cordova@post.harvard.edu She will be posting updates via Facebook and Twitter @ForCommunities Fees for the 2-day workshop are: $150.00 per participant from non-profit community groups $300.00 per participant from academic and corporate orgs Lunch and snacks included. Please register for the 2-day training on-line: http://www.ppwn.org Registered participants will also have the opportunity to see We Cannot Keep Silent at the Philadelphia Folklore Project http://folkloreprojet.org after the workshop on Friday, February 8.

Dr. Bernard Lafayette speaking at a 2012 Global Nonviolence Conference in Durban, South Africa. ~photo by Joan May Cordova

SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE
2-day orientation to Kingian Nonviolence with Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Feb 8-9, 2013
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