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DESCRIPTION:Fifteen Years Creating Engaged Citizenry in\nPalestine: Empower
 ing whole communities through Rights\nAdvocacy\nA public talk sponsored by
  MMEP\, featuring Dr. Varsen\nAghabekian and Dr. Sami Al-Kilani\nDr. Sami 
 Al-Kilani will share his own experience as a poet\,\nprisoner of conscienc
 e\, and founder of the first Rights-Based\nCommunity Practice Centre in Pa
 lestine.\nDr. Varsen Aghabekian will discuss the empowerment of\nmarginali
 zed women in Palestine\, with a special focus on East\nJerusalem.\nSami be
 gan his career as a physicist and poet\, and was an\nAmnesty prisoner of c
 onscience in the 1980s. He was a delegate to\nthe Madrid Conference and ha
 s been a strong advocate for\nnon-violence since the 1980's. Sami is one o
 f the founding members\nof the Arab non‐violence movement\, which meets fo
 r one month each\nsummer in Beirut and has evolved into the first Arab Uni
 versity for\nNon Violence (AUNV). It aims to institutionalize the culture 
 of\nnon‐violence in Lebanon and all the Middle East. Sami is the\nfounder 
 of the first RBCP centre in the West Bank and wrote his\ndoctoral thesis a
 t 91������'s own School of Social Work on the\nimplementation of the RBCP mo
 del in Palestine. Today he is Dean of\nthe Faculty of Educational Sciences
  at An Najah National\nUniversity.\nVarsen holds a Ph.D. in Administrative
  & Policy\nStudies-Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently\
 ,\nVarsen is the Director of PCAN\, and works as a freelance management\na
 nd policy consultant. She is a founding or active member of\nseveral NGOs 
 and a member of the Board of Commissioners of the\nIndependent Palestinian
  Commission for Human Rights. Varsen's\nprevious experience includes: Mana
 ger of Capacity and Institution\nBuilding in the Office of the President\;
  Executive Director of Al\nQuds Capital of Arab Culture\; Director of Rese
 arch & Planning\nat the Welfare Association\; Associate Professor at Al-Qu
 ds\nUniversity\; Dean of Health Professions\; and Dean of Graduate\nStudie
 s. Varsen also directed the Multi-sector Review and Strategic\nPlan for Ea
 st Jerusalem and the National Plan for Human Resource\nDevelopment and Edu
 cation in Health.\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo
 ke Ouest
SUMMARY:Public Talk: Fifteen Years Creating Engaged Citizenry in Palestine:
  Empowering whole communities through Rights Advocacy
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 -engaged-citizenry-palestine-empowering-whole-communities-through--215734
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