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May 3, 2018Discover Human Rights: A Human Rights Approach to Social Justice
The Discover Human Rights training series by The Advocates for Human Rights provides concrete steps for how organizations and individuals can use the standards, principles, and methods of human rights to combat entrenched poverty, discrimination, and injustice in their community.
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June 20, 2018Motivate Responsible Use of Technology & Prevent Digital Bullying, Exploitation & Abuse
There is no magic button to eliminate all digital abuse in your school– but there are ways to reduce it, bring accountability to those that create it, and empower those who wish to avoid it. Whether you are tech-savvy or tech-challenged, this workshop will provide you with solutions and recommendations for prevention that you can take back to your school and implement.
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June 22, 2018Exposure Concert 9: Because Love Shouldn’t Hurt
Way too many people are turned away by agencies in place – this is not acceptable. Too many times someone has to return to the abuser because they have no other place to go.
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August 13, 2018Crimes Against Children Conference
Internationally recognized, the Crimes Against Children Conference is the premier conference of its kind providing practical and interactive instruction to those fighting crimes against children and helping children heal.
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August 29, 2018National Sexual Assault Conference 2018
The conference facilitates opportunities to share information and resources, advance learning, develop skills, and increase professional capacity to support survivors of sexual assault, to raise the profile of sexual assault as an important community health and justice issue, and to prevent sexual assault from happening.
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October 31, 2018Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
Ai Weiwei is arguably the most famous Chinese artist living today. Known primarily for his activism fueled work, the Beijing native often uses his art as a vehicle for free speech in China — a country where such a practice is not necessarily protected.
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October 30, 2018Annual International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding
The International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation believes that an international conference on the Traditional Systems of Conflict Resolution is highly needed at this crucial time in world history. Although traditional systems of conflict resolution predate the modern theories and practices of conflict resolution, they are almost, if not completely, unavailable in our conflict resolution textbooks, […]
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Earth Day: Exposing the Environmental Costs of War
April 20, 2018For centuries, war has not only involved the annihilation of human life, but also environmental destruction, in the forms of both ‘collateral damage’ and deliberate damage to environments.
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Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities
April 6, 2018In March, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released the results of a study showing that black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined.
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A Dream of Non-Violence
April 4, 2018Today we reflect on the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was his dream that through non-violence we could work out the differences that divide us and live together in a peaceful environment.
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Uncomfortable Conversations … that become solutions
March 14, 2018When Sarah Beaulieu’s delivered a TEDx talk in 2016 on the topic of sexual violence, the talk received such response she started an organization: Uncomfortable Conversation.
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There is a Solution
March 1, 2018For decades Diana Wege has been visiting schools, advocating for gun control, meeting Congressional leaders on Capitol Hill and studying what can be done to end violence in our schools and teach children how to live without conflict.
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Conflict resolution training in the classroom
February 15, 2018Diana Wege has been passionate about the need to incorporate conflict resolution training into the classroom. Before founding WOVEN (We Oppose Violence Everywhere Now) she established CrUSAde (Conflict Resolution for Educators in the United States of America), a foundation that focused on anti-bullying programs.
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WOVEN salutes the life and work of Dr. Gene Sharp
February 1, 2018WOVEN salutes the life life and work of Dr. Gene Sharp: through his work, through his writing, through his dedication to understanding revolution and non-violence.
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The Uncomfortable Conversation
January 18, 2018WOVEN participated in The Uncomfortable Conversation event held on January 16th at HBO. We learned about how to handle situations as described in Bari Weiss’ op-ed in the New York Times.