As the headlines fade, schools that have experienced extreme violence are left to pick up the pieces. No one really knows what happens to them, how the survivors continue to survive, how the losses are dealt with. An international conference in Montreal, site of three school shootings in 17 years, will examine the root causes of such violence and explore the solutions that education might provide.

Listen to James Gilligan on the shift from punishment to prevention, to Lt. Col. David Grossman on the effects of video gaming, to bullying expert Barbara Coloroso on the benefits of engaging the bystander, and to Jerzy Nowak, founding director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention at Virginia Tech, established in the wake of the rampage that took the life of his wife and 32 others.

Speakers from a host of countries will lead workshops on the kind of bullying that led to the murder of teenager Reena Virk at the hands of her mostly female peers and the alarming increase in cyberbullying, on post-traumatic stress, the transformation of violent school cultures, and campus safety, to name just a few of the many critical issues being addressed at the Youth and Violence: the Role of Education / Inspiring Solutions conference in Montreal.

This conference will have something for every counselor, college and university professor, administrator and campus security chief. It’s a unique opportunity you can’t afford to miss. Be in Montreal between September 29 and October 1, 2011.

Youth and Violence: the Role of Education / Inspiring Solutions

September 29 to October 1, 2011

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Questions?

Contact conference2011@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

For more information

www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/conference2011

Please forward this message to others in your institution who may find this of interest.

Mary Hlywa and Pat Romano

Dawson College/ACCC 2011 Conference Coordinators

Youth and Violence: the Role of Education – Inspiring Solutions

September 29-October 1, 2011

514-931-8731 (ext 5090 or 1461)

Youth and Violence
www.truthaid.org
Columbine. Virginia Tech. École Polytechnique. Utøya Island, Norway. No one ever thinks it will happen to them. As the headlines fade, schools that have experienced extreme violence are left to pick up the pieces. No one really knows what happens to them, how the survivors continue to survive, how …

As the headlines fade, schools that have experienced extreme violence are left to pick up the pieces. No one really knows what happens to them, how the survivors continue to survive, how the losses are dealt with. An international conference in Montreal, site of three school shootings in 17 years, will examine the root causes of such violence and explore the solutions that education might provide.

Listen to James Gilligan on the shift from punishment to prevention, to Lt. Col. David Grossman on the effects of video gaming, to bullying expert Barbara Coloroso on the benefits of engaging the bystander, and to Jerzy Nowak, founding director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention at Virginia Tech, established in the wake of the rampage that took the life of his wife and 32 others.

Speakers from a host of countries will lead workshops on the kind of bullying that led to the murder of teenager Reena Virk at the hands of her mostly female peers and the alarming increase in cyberbullying, on post-traumatic stress, the transformation of violent school cultures, and campus safety, to name just a few of the many critical issues being addressed at the Youth and Violence: the Role of Education / Inspiring Solutions conference in Montreal.

This conference will have something for every counselor, college and university professor, administrator and campus security chief. It’s a unique opportunity you can’t afford to miss. Be in Montreal between September 29 and October 1, 2011.

Youth and Violence: the Role of Education / Inspiring Solutions

September 29 to October 1, 2011

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Questions?

Contact conference2011@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

For more information

www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/conference2011

Please forward this message to others in your institution who may find this of interest.

Mary Hlywa and Pat Romano

Dawson College/ACCC 2011 Conference Coordinators

Youth and Violence: the Role of Education – Inspiring Solutions

September 29-October 1, 2011

514-931-8731 (ext 5090 or 1461)

Keira and Guy will join Francesca Hammerstein, wife of The Box New York’s Simon Hammerstein, and Truth Aid founder Dr Mehret Mandefro for a night of fun at the infamous Soho haunt to raise funds for a serious cause. The charity’s latest venture, a film project titled Oblivion, is a feature length film on child marriage and one girl’s story that saw the law changed.

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Article by Isla Cunningham 

Lately I have been thinking a lot about the importance of friendship and what it means as a form of support in your life. My friends are like my family. They pick me up when I am down and help me keep going when I want to give up. This form of support is irreplaceable. Invest in your relationships and the people who take care of you. It’s the most important form of networking you can do.

The Bride Price: Consequences of Child Marriage Worldwide is a video containing moving images by Stephanie Sinclair – recipient of the 2007 UNICEF Photo of the Year – on the many issues of child marriage. Sinclair’s photos include compelling images of child brides in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and India. Sinclair’s previous work on child marriage includes a photo essay of Afghani child brides published in The New York Times. We warning you that some of the images are very graphic. Thank you International Center for Research on Women for posting this video.

Hunger and poverty are inextricable. The video above makes this point and answers an important question: who feeds our world? This video is from The Hunger Project. The Hunger Project works in partnership with grassroots people in Africa, Asia and Latin America to develop effective bottom-up strategies. They have discovered three critical elements that, when combined, empower people to make rapid progress in overcoming hunger and poverty:

• Mobilizing people at the grassroots level to build self-reliance
• Empowering women as key change agents; and
• Forging partnerships with local government

The Hunger Project’s approach is different from the conventional, top-down planning used by many development agencies and governments. These top-down approaches follow a service-delivery model and often undermine our most important resource: the creativity and self-reliance of people living in conditions of hunger and poverty themselves.

The Hunger Project’s empowerment model is similar in method and ethos to our approach to raising awareness about the social barriers that vulnerable population face. We commend their work and recommend their website as a valuable resource for learning about hunger.

Truth Aid at The Box
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Keira Knightey lends support to Truth Aid benefit at The Box…

TRUTHAID – London Auction Items
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Thank you to our London host committee for securing such amazing items for our auction.

This is a London auction item.

The specific diamond being auctioned at our London event is presented in the above video. 

Royal Asscher is still owned by the Asscher family, a renowned diamond dynasty with a 155 year old legacy. The Asscher Diamond Company, made famous at the turn of the 20th century by Joseph and Abraham Asscher, became the Royal Asscher Diamond Company in 1980 when it was bestowed with the honor of a Royal Prefix from Queen Juliana of Holland in recognition of the company’s stature both in Holland and across the world.

Bid for this stunning ring from the renowned Royal Asscher Diamond Company’s “Stars of Africa” collection.

The ring is from the innovative collection of floating diamonds englobed on an 18k medium gold ring.

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