Aaron Nell will explore the needs of adolescents and what strategies help them creatively engage moral reasoning through play. Aaron has been working with youth (particularly those suspended or expelled) for nearly a decade, and has immense wisdom and hope to share on this subject. Aaron has worked throughout the Richmond Community Schools, with the Boys and Girls Club, the Conflict Resolution Center, and more.

You can read more at http://www.bethanyseminary.edu/academics_programs/peaceforum. Contact Anna Lisa at grossan@bethanyseminary.edu or 914.2973 for more information.

Prison visitation and direct ministry with prisoners are more commonly practiced by people of faith with a concern for prisoners and the criminal justice system. As important as such activities undoubtedly are, we are also called to work for systemic change in order to bring about justice. Nonetheless, many people do not feel capable of engaging in advocacy. Jana Schroeder will share stories of ways that ordinary people have gotten involved in advocacy and will provide information about ways to get involved.

Peace Forum is a weekly lunch and speaker series hosted by Bethany Theological Seminary and Earlham School of Religion. Join us every Thursday during the school year in the ESR dining room from 12-1:10pm. Lunch is free.

The strongest security does not come from guns, police, armies or control, but from vulnerable and honest relationships. Richmond's Conflict Resolution Center contributes to these relationships throughout our community through working with suspended and expelled youth, mediating teen-parent and landlord-tenant conflicts, and teaching a depth and breadth of conflict resolution and restorative justice skills. CRC's Program Director Aaron Nell will share about this work at Peace Forum on October 9 at noon. Free, delicious lunch provided. Located in the Earlham School of Religion Dining Room on the campus of Earlham College in Richmond.

While every day provides opportunity to creatively engage conflict, Conflict Resolution Day was initiated in 2005 to increase public awareness about conflict resolution and its many benefits. The Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond is hosting a presentation by John Krauss, Director of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Dr. Krauss' speech, in Reid Hospital's Lingle Grand Hall, will be at 8:00 a.m. and is open to the public. An optional breakfast at 7:30 requires reservations by Friday, October 10 through the Conflict Resolution Center (765-973-8511).  continue reading »

Mediator Training with the Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond will be taking place September 26, 27, 28 & October 10, 11, 12 at Indiana University East. Mediator Training focuses on communication skills and mediating family, neighborhood, workplace and a variety of other disputes. Participants also complete post-training role play mediations, and are then ready for mediating community conflicts with the guidance of a CRC Mentor Mediator. For more information about the training, contact CRC at 765-973-8511.

* What can we learn from Israelis about U.S. immigration concerns?
* If God were to give the Holy Land to another people, how would we know?
* What claim do you have to the land where you live?
* If you were forced to leave, at what point would you lose your right to return?

Anna Lisa Gross recently returned from three weeks in Palestine, Israel and Jordan and wants to discuss questions like these on February 17 at 5pm. Come for dinner, stories and discussion about politics, ethics, faith and culture in the Middle East, Christian Peacemaker Teams and what we can do to help.  continue reading »

Presenter: John Paul Lederach Presenter: Dr. John Paul Lederach, Professor of International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame, Distinguished Scholar and founding director of Conflict Transformation Program, Eastern Mennonite University Lederach has done extensive work in conflict transformation around the globe and has written widely on conflict resolution and mediation. Sponsored by Carter Peace Lecture Fund, bringing noted scholars and speakers to speak on issues of peace and non-violent action.

Held in Loose Lecture Hall, Landrum Bolling Center on the campus of Earlham College. Free and open to the public. For more information, call (765)983-1211.

The Conflict Resolution Center reeived a grant to offer two trainings - Family Group Conferencing and Family Group Decision Making. CRC would recommend the first of these for those interested in learning whether or how to incorporate Conferencing Circles. This training is offered at no cost (donations accepted). The trainings are as follows:

March 19-20 Family Group Conferencing - 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., lunch is provided.

March 21-22 Family Group Decision Making - 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Registration begins at 8 a.m., lunch is provided.  continue reading »

The Conflict Resolution Center's Mediator Training course will be held on January 19-21 and February 2-4 at Earlham College's Landrum Bolling Center, Room 124. The course provides an intensive training experience for those who want to learn how to mediate conflict in their own lives, in their communities, and for the Conflict Resolution Center as a part of its case work in Wayne County. For more information or to sign up, call 765-973-8511 or e-mail info@conflictrescenter.org.

Aaron Nell, former ESR student and director of the Conflict Resolution Center in Richmond, discusses the use of the Alternatives to Violence model in the local jail. Free lunch and good company. When: Thurs., Nov. 16, 12 - 1:10 p.m. Where: Seminary dining room at the Earlham School of Religion.