War and the Environment: Jan 17 - Feb 27,
2022
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This course is 100% online and interactions
are not live or scheduled, so you can take part whenever
works for you. Weekly content includes a mix of
text, images, video, and audio. Instructors and students
utilize online discussion forums to go over each week's
content, as well as to provide feedback on optional
assignment submissions.
The course also
includes three 1-hour optional zoom calls which
are designed to facilitate a more interactive and
real-time learning experience.
Week 1: Where Wars Happen and Why,
January 17-23
Facilitator: Tim Pluta
Tim describes his path to peace activism as a slow
realization that this is a part of what he ought to be
doing in life. After standing up to a bully as a young
teen, then getting beaten up and asking his attacker if
he felt better, having a gun pushed up his nose as an
exchange student in a foreign country and talking his
way out of the situation, and getting out of the
military as a Conscientious Objector, Tim found that the
U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 finally convinced him that
one of his focuses in life would be peace activism. From
helping to organize peace rallies, speaking and marching
at conferences around the world, co-founding two
chapters of Veterans For Peace, the Veterans Global
Peace Network, and a World BEYOND War chapter, Tim says
that he delights in being invited to help facilitate the
first week of World BEYOND War's War and the
Environment, and looks forward to learning. Tim
represented World BEYOND War in Glasgow Scotland during
COP26.
Week 2: What Wars Do to the Earth,
January 24-30
Facilitator: Rukmini Iyer
Rukmini Iyer is a seasoned leadership development
facilitator, coach and peacebuilder with over 20 years
of professional experience around the world. She is
currently based in Mumbai, India. After working in
mid-management and leadership roles for around 8 years
in India and Singapore with renowned organizations,
Rukmini set up Exult! Solutions in 2008 with an
intention to meld her interests in
organization/leadership development and peacebuilding
and to create a space for individual and systemic
explorations into how we can co-create a world that
works for all. The firm is structured as a for-profit
venture that consciously redirects a significant part of
its earnings and resources to allow for projects in the
peacebuilding and social development spaces. Rukmini
concurrently works on a range of geo-diverse corporate
projects that include organizational development and
culture change interventions, competency mapping and
assessment centres, leadership and management
development journeys, coaching, capacity building, and
instructional design.
Week 3: What Imperial Militaries Do to the
Earth Back Home, January 31-February 6
Facilitator: Eva Czermak
Eva Czermak, MD, E.MA. is a trained physician, has a
Master’s degree in Human Rights and is Rotary Peace
Fellow besides being a trained mediator. In the last 20
years she has mainly worked as medical doctor with
marginalized groups such as refugees, migrants, homeless
people, people with substance abuse problems and without
health insurance, 9 of those years as manager of an NGO.
Currently she works for the Austrian ombudsman and for
Caritas’ aid projects in Burundi. Other experiences
include participation in dialogue projects in the US,
international experience in the development and
humanitarian fields (Burundi and Sudan) and several
training activities in the medical, communication and
human rights fields.
Week 4: What Nuclear Weapons Have Done and
Could Do, February 7-13
Facilitator: Emma Pike
Emma Pike is an energetic individual driven by her
firm belief in education as the surest means for
building a more peaceful and equitable world for all.
Her years of experience in research and academia are
supplemented by her more recent experience as a
classroom teacher. She has had the privilege of
conducting her research in the three unique environments
of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. She
is especially passionate about the interconnected topics
of peace education and global citizenship education. As
an educator, she believes that her most important job is
to see the vast potential in each of her students, and
to guide them in the discovery of this potential. While
acquiring the practical literacy, numeracy, and
reasoning skills that they will need in life, she wants
her students to become active citizens, each in their
unique way, who go into the world with the confidence
that they have the power to be change-makers. Every
child has a super power. As a teacher, it is her job,
she says, to believe this and help each student bring
their super power to shine. What does it mean to be a
global citizen? What does it mean to educate for global
citizenship? In our globalized world, in which each of
our lives is supported by all others in both seen and
unseen ways, these questions represent more than
academic curiosity. They are an inquiry into how the
largest community that all humans share - the global
community - can pave a path of respect for life,
celebration of diversity, environmental sustainability,
global justice and equity, and harmonious
interdependence into the 21st century and beyond.
Week 5: How This Horror Is Hidden and
Maintained, February 14-20
Facilitator: Deniz Vural
Deniz Vural is based in Istanbul, Turkey. She is a
life-long learner who graduated with a degree in Marine
Engineering, focusing on environmental sustainability,
followed by a Master's in Geosciences, studying climate
change, but also how to transfer this knowledge to a
wider public. She has worked since 2015 on various
projects and activities on the polar regions, the
effects of the climate crisis, and possible steps to be
taken to diminish individual footprints (i.e. carbon,
water, ecological etc.). Vural has traveled virtually
around the Arctic circle to study the deepest unknown,
frozen ground, permafrost. She now focuses on permafrost
research, particularly investigating thermokarst lakes,
which are also known as ice-rich permafrost, and the
relationship between waterbody differentiation and
changes in the Arctic ecosystems. She is also leading
the Education and Outreach leg under the Polar Research
Institute at the The Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey and is both learning and
teaching different disciplines such as ecological
gardening and capacity building workshops.
Week 6: What Can Be Done, February
21-27
Facilitators: Greta Zarro and Rachel Small
Greta Zarro is World BEYOND War Organizing Director.
She has a background in issue-based community
organizing. Her experience includes volunteer
recruitment and engagement, event organizing, coalition
building, legislative and media outreach, and public
speaking. Greta graduated as valedictorian from St.
Michael’s College with a bachelor’s degree in
Sociology/Anthropology. She previously worked as New
York Organizer for leading non-profit Food & Water
Watch. There, she campaigned on issues related to
fracking, genetically engineered foods, climate change,
and the corporate control of our common resources. Greta
and her partner run Unadilla Community Farm, a
non-profit organic farm and permaculture education
center in Upstate New York. Greta can be reached at gr...@worldbeyondwar.org.
Rachel Small is World BEYOND WAR Canada Organizer.
She is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada,
on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous
territory. She has organized within local and
international social/environmental justice movements for
over a decade, with a special focus on working in
solidarity with communities harmed by Canadian
extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has
also worked on campaigns and mobilizations around
climate justice, decolonization, anti-racism, disability
justice, and food sovereignty. She currently organizes
in Toronto with the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
and has a Masters in Environmental Studies from York
University. She has a background in art-based activism
and has facilitated projects in community mural-making,
independent publishing and media, spoken word, guerilla
theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages
across Canada. She lives downtown with her partner, kid,
and friend, and can often be found at a protest or
direct action, gardening, spray painting, and playing
softball. Rachel can be reached at rac...@worldbeyondwar.org
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Oct 10 - Nov 20, 2022
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