Humainologie creative dialogue Tuesday September 20 Trudy Govier facilitating on ideas for a Calgary

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”  - Albert Einstein   “It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence.  It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.  And the alternative to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation, and our earthly habitat would be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine.”  - Martin Luther King, Jr.   “Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”  - John Donne   Canada does not have a peace museum, yet some years ago, in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, it had a “peace exhibit”  https://www.warmuseum.ca/event/peace-the-exhibition/    Ploughshares Calgary Society is proposing a peace museum for Calgary.  It would connect Canadians and others who have long been thinking creatively about ways to foster genuine peace and a healthy global community.  A Calgary peace museum could offer an alternative to thinking about peace inside the box of militarism.   In my own way of thinking, establishing a peacebuilding museum in Calgary should be a priority for our city.  A standing ovation is in order for Catherine Ford’s contribution to the Calgary Herald suggesting we give the Calgary peace museum a chance.   https://epaper.calgaryherald.com/article/281672553745226  Ploughshares Calgary Society’s Trudy Govier will facilitate our creative dialogue this coming Tuesday September 20, to be held at the Parkdale United Church, 2919 Eighth Avenue NW, starting at 7:00 PM.  You can join the meeting by Zoom: Topic: Peacebuilding dialogue sessionTime: Sep 20, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86393534667?pwd=dlUrVDdCeTl1VzJ4d29zZWRJZTRZUT09Meeting ID: 863 9353 4667Passcode: 12345 Trudy will present background on Ploughshares Calgary Society’s proposal for the peace museum and some of the ideas already put forward for exhibits and programs that could be featured at the museum.  Then she will lead us in a creative dialogue on our own thoughts and ideas, as a step toward enriching our active involvement in this important initiative. Arthur