CREATORS
OF PEACE
Be the peace you want to see in the world.
We often think of peace in the abstract — peace as the absence of war or conflict. What if we examine peace through a personal lens?
Creators of Peace Australia is committed to building sustainable peace by transforming, empowering and engaging women as creators of peace within themselves and in the world around them.
Our focus areas
Peace Circles: Creators of Peace Circles are a women-led program that applies a custom-designed methodology informed by women’s own experiences. Guided by two trained facilitators, each Circle invites participants to explore the nature of peace and their own part in building peace. Over 16 to 18 hours, participants explore the internal and external elements of peace, practice deep thinking and active listening, and share their unique yet unifying life stories. Participants feel empowered, gain confidence in self-expression, develop greater understanding of the human experience, and enhance their abilities to “be the peace we want to see in the world.”
Collaboration and Partnerships: We actively collaborate with like-minded organisations. Recent collaboration has been with the Southern Migrant Resource Centre in Melbourne, Mt Druitt Multicultural Services in Sydney and the annual Sydney-based Raising Peace Festival.
OUR INITIATIVES
IofC Indonesia Team Visit
In an opportunity to demonstrate building bridges of friendship and trust across our diversity, an exchange visit from IofC Indonesia was organised in May-June this year. A group of five Indonesians, professionally-trained from various backgrounds and who have been working with IofC Indonesia as agents of change and peacebuilders, were selected for the visit.
Creators of Peace
Guest Speaker Series
The Speaker Series commenced during COVID to keep the IofC/CoP network connected and continues to present Guest Speakers to inform and inspire the national network to put peace into practice – a core principle of Creators of Peace.
Speakers for 2022-2023:
• Aletia Dundas – A Quakers perspective on Peace
• Dr Anita Mackay – Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons
• Barbara Lawler – Led on a Path to Peace
• Gertrude Matshe-Kanicki – Live Ubuntu
• Leela Gray – A next generation Initiatives of Change
• Mahboba Rawi AOM – Mahboba’s Promise
• Margaret Hepworth – Teaching Non-Violence as a Conscious Choice in Education
• Patricia Garcia AO – What is Positive Peace
• Robyn Hutchinson – WRN Taking Action for The Voice
• Ron Lawler – The Tirkandi Inaburra Cultural & Development Centre
• Philip Feinstein AOM, Music for Refugees – A man on a selfless journey
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