Note that Rima Salah is one of the speakers in this webinar
Pete McDermott shares the following notice to all interested:
"It is unforgivable that children are assaulted, violated, murdered and yet our conscience is not revolted, nor our sense of dignity challenged," says Graça Machel, Mozambique's first post-independence Minister for Education and author of a groundbreaking UN report on the impact of armed conflict on children. "This represents a fundamental crisis of our civilization. The impact of armed conflict on children must be everyone's concern and is everyone's responsibility." In the current crisis unfolding in Israel and Gaza, children were deliberately attacked, killed, and taken hostage by Hamas. Thousands of children have been killed and injured in retaliatory strikes in Gaza and continue to die each day. The conflict has accentuated deep divides and polarization. How might the conversation about the conflict change when we center children and our commitments to them? Encounter between and dialogue among intergenerational members of religious communities is critical to making progress on the most challenging issues facing children bearing the brunt of war. During this webinar, participants will consider the following questions: When children's lives and well-being are at serious risk, how can religious institutions and faith communities help to uphold commitments to children's rights and protection and strengthen child-centered moral conscience? How do the impacts of war on children affect their mental health, moral compass, and capacity to empathize with others? Do these impacts on young minds risk aggravating and prolonging the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, jeopardizing possibilities of conflict transformation, peace, and security in the future? This event is part of the Culture of Encounter Project and is convened by the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues and an international, interfaith working group on child rights. |
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