It’s been a few days since my last post as I’ve spent the weekend (and the last few evenings) working on my first major assignment, a 10 page Conflict Analysis report. I found it a useful exercise with the process of practically looking at “connectors” as well as “dividers” and “drivers” in a conflict situation at home, very beneficial to my work.
Week 2 finished with Dr. Chaiwat Satha Anand (Director of the Thai Peace Information Centre at the Foundation for Democracy and Development Studies) giving us a thought-provoking lecture into the “Theories of Non-violence”. His theoretical framework and personal experiences were all very practical and he posed question such as; what really constitutes a non violent action? He proposed that all of these actions lie on this continuum somewhere:
Dr. Chaiwat Satha Anand discussing the differences in sitting positions between protesters who ran away and were shot and those who remained unharmed.
We also started to prepare for our first field trip to the border down of Mae Sot in a weeks time. More to follow…
Practical Peace 