1 Aug 2013

Understanding and Responding to Violence

National Seminar on Understanding and Responding to Violence
                                                                                               
Indian School of Ecumenical Theology  organized A National Seminar on Understanding and Responding to Violence  at Ecumenical Christian Centre  from 6 to 8, October 2010  Rev. Reji Samuel, the in charge of ISET and coordinator welcomed the participants.  Rev. Dr.  M Mani Chacko inaugurated the seminar. Fr.George Muthalil, Director ISI,  in his  key Note address on ‘Violence and State’ highlighted the issues nation is facing today. After the lunch, Child Right Trust(CRT) an NGO did a presentation on  Violence against Children. In the following session,  Rev. D. Jebaraj, CIT, Chennai  presented a paper on  Violence and Scriptures from the  Bible. In the second day, Dr V.S. Elizabeth  , from National Law School University  did a presentation on Gender Based Violence' in the second session of the day,  Akkay, and team from Sangama, an NGO working among the transgender community , shared their experience as a transgender . which was an eye opener to all the participants.
             
After the linch, Prof. Dr. G. K. Karanth, Institute for Social and Economic Change  brought a lecture on Violence to Migrants. In the last session on the second day, Dr M. Stephen , FTS, Manakala  brought a paper on ‘Violence to Dalits and Tribals’ On the third day after the  Eco friendly Worship Dr .George Zachariah presented a paper on Response from Theological Ethical Perspectives. The program came to a close with the concluding remarks by Rev. Dr. Mani Chacko.


1 comments:

Unknown said...

Rev Reji May God continue using u mightly.be blsd