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May
17
Sat
We Choose Non-violence”- a conversation with a Palestinian activist and a peace studies scholar @ Wheeler Hall,
May 17 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This is a partnership event between the J&P Commission, Pax Christi in the Leeds Diocese and the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival.

Join a conversation on the issue of non-violence with Palestinian activist and academic Mahmoud Zwahre and Andrew Rigby, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies

Illustrated with film by West Bank filmmakers

Includes updates from the West Bank and the significance of ‘Sumud’ in the Palestinian struggle.

photo of manMahmoud Zwahre is a leading activist and organiser in popular non-violent resistance against settler violence in the West Bank and currently a scholar at Coventry University

 

 

 

 

photo of a manAndrew Rigby has researched and written about unarmed resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since the 1980s, activities informed by his deep commitment to nonviolence as practice and principle.

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