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Martin Luther King Jr. Event Series
Community Healing: Pain and Hope
With Dr. Mary Wade and PhD Student Nawal Rajeh
Facilitated by Prof. Richard Rubenstein
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Metropolitan Building Room 5183
*Light lunch will be provided
This event series is co-sponsored by
George Mason University Life and Communities without Boundaries International
Dr. Mary Wade has worked in many capacities. Her most interesting and loved position was the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Quaker United Nations Human Rights Representative where she covered the work of the Third Committee. Her major areas of focus were Southern Africa with an emphasis on Apartheid, Central America, and the UN Human Rights Covenants. In her spare time she followed the disarmament discussions. During her work at the UN, Mary founded the African-American Committee on the United Nations. She invited African Americans from the around the nation to attend UN conferences in New York and D.C. meeting UN delegates and staff, media and NGO’s.
Nawal Rajeh is a peace educator as well as an activist and community organizer in the Washington, DC area. She is the Founder and Director of the non-profit, By Peaceful Means: http://bypeacefulmeans.org. The non-profit seeks to empower youth, schools, and communities through creative conflict resolution initiatives and advocacy-building skills. Nawal also cofounded and has been running a Peace Camp for the past eight summers in Baltimore, which has served hundreds of low-income families as one of the only cost-free camps in the city. Nawal is currently an adjunct teacher at a DC public high school teaching conflict resolution and restorative justice to grades 9-12. Her areas of interest include racial justice, community conflict, peace education, and the agency of youth to create positive change.
