GCD workshop

Yesterday the FOR staff at USSF facilitated a workshop on Grassroots Civilian Diplomacy. We all had a great time and really enjoyed sharing our stories and perspectives.

The participants were a very diverse group of folks who work on a broad range of issues and who came from over the country - Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina, Illinois, and Washington DC were represented. We shared information about TFLAC, the Iran Program, and Peacemaker Training Institutes, and had a group discussion of militarism, conflict, and power and relationships. I think we all came away with new insights on these very old problems - I know I did!

Here's a little more about GCD...

Grassroots Civilian Diplomacy offers a framework for building and sustaining intergenerational, multicultural, and multi-faith fellowship and action. Through the creation of intentional people-to-people relationships that transcend age, culture, and geography, ordinary people have the capacity to break down walls that political leaders are unable to overcome (and sometimes create).

The Fellowship of Reconciliation's Grassroots Civilian Diplomacy initiative works to lift up the nonviolent potential in local communities and individuals. This effort seeks to engage people and communities to work for the demilitarization of U.S. policy, both at home and internationally.