WEBINAR -  Global Peace Session

Africa Peace and Development Network/ Mtandao wa Amani na Maendeleo Afrika (MAMA)

https://www.africapeaceanddevelopmentnetwork.org/

Invitation, News and Events

Dear Participant and Friend of Peace, dear distinguished Guest,

You are warmly invited on behalf of the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) and affiliates to Global Peace Studies for Sustainable Development in Africa (Global Peace), a series of weekly academic and professional discourses on peace education, research, and activism as well as on the question of sustainable development.

Global Peace events take place every Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi, using the Zoom link below. Please adjust your clock accordingly. We appreciate your participation.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157580433?pwd=Ny9kRGR1TjBtaHNiTGlFaWU4UW5Mdz09 (No RSVP or prior registration required.)

Theme: “Reclaiming Diplomacy”

Speaker:  Clem McCartney, Diplomats Without Borders, Northern Ireland 

Clem McCartney is an independent research consultant from Northern Ireland. From the mid-1980s his main interest has been in conflict resolution, mediation and peace building and he has worked with the Centre for the Study of Conflict in the University of Ulster. From 1992 he has been an independent consultant and has worked with a variety of organisations and in many regions of the world. He has been an associate of Conciliation Resources and contributed to their Accord Series, editing the edition on Northern Ireland - Striking a Balance, the Northern Ireland Peace Process, and was an advisor on their Comparative Learning Project which compared the experiences of the peace processes in different regions. From 2007 until the end of 2019, he was policy and content coordinator to the Shared Societies Project of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the network of former heads of state and heads of government, focusing on policies to promote inter community harmony and supporting initiatives to reduce tensions.  He was a founding member of Diplomats Without Borders in 2022.

Synopsis

This presentation explores Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as an innovative educational methodology that creates opportunities for students and faculty from different parts of the world to engage in meaningful intercultural collaboration. Through virtual exchange projects, participants go beyond traditional classroom boundaries to share perspectives, co-create knowledge, and build connections across cultures. The talk will highlight how COIL fosters skills essential for global citizenship — empathy, open-minded dialogue, and effective communication across differences. By centering collaboration and intercultural learning, COIL not only enriches academic experiences but also serves as a pathway to peacebuilding, helping learners cultivate the habits of cooperation and mutual respect that underpin sustainable peace.

Time:

07:00 a.m. Mexico City

09:00 a.m. Washington, DC

10:00 a. m. Buenos Aires

02:00 p.m. (14:00) Accra/Lisbon/London

03:00 p.m. (15:00) Berlin

04:00 p.m. (16:00) Dar-es-Salaam/Kampala/Nairobi

06:30 p.m. (18:30) New Delhi

09:00 p.m. (21:00) Nanjing

10:00 p.m. (22:00) Tokyo

11:00 p.m. (23:00) Melbourne

Date: 1st October 2025

News and Events

Latest Global Peace Session

We thank Olamma Agwu Kalu & Alexa Christine Guzmán Blastervold Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico for their insightful presentations on “Intercultural Learning as a Pathway to Global Peace & Dialogue: The COIL Experience”. You may watch a recording of the presentations here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2t6thbj00&t=10s

MAMA Founding Members and Collaborative Partners

Thanks to generous offers from peacebuilders, development professionals, specialists, academics, researchers, activists, civil society experts, philosophers and intellectuals, we discuss pertinent issues of peace and sustainability around the world and across Africa. Global Peace is brought to you courtesy of: Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Egon Spiegel: University of Vechta, Germany; Prof. Dr. Cheng Liu: UNESCO Chair, Nanjing University, China; Prof. Dr. Lester R. Kurtz: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK), Germany, Dr. Mariana Covolo: Universidad de Congreso (UC), Mendoza, Argentina; Mr. Peter Barus, Vermont, USA, Prof. Janet Gerson: International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE), USA, Prof. Donna Pido and Prof. Odoch Pido, Nairobi, Kenya), Evelyn Voigt and Gordon Breedyk: Civilian Peace Service, Canada and The Peace Professionalism Project, Ottawa, Canada. Some of our key partners include: Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN), International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU/FIUC), International Peace Research Association (IPRA), World Intellectuals’ Wisdom Forum (WIWF), African Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA), the Commonwealth Interfaith Network (CIN), Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS

MAMA WhatsApp Group and Website

You are warmly invited to join the Africa Peace and Development Network (MAMA) WhatsApp Group. We promote peace by peaceful means (nonviolence) and we reject violence because it is against human dignity and it breeds more violence. Please text me via +255 756 058 511 to join MAMA. For further information, please visit our website: https://www.africapeaceanddevelopmentnetwork.org/

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