Can Food Build Peace?
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Conversations with Peacemeal: Everyday Peacebuilding Through Food
Peacemeal is a peacebuilding initiative centred on the elemental power of food in human connection — creating space for people to share stories over a meal, listen deeply across divides, and nourish hope through everyday acts of peacebuilding. Their book brings together over 40 global peacebuilders' culinary stories and recipes, each one an invitation to imagine peacebuilding as something we can practise every day, at our own tables.
In the next instalment of our webinar series, we're joined by two of those contributors — Helen Bishop and Essan Dileri — to hear the ideas and stories behind their work, facilitated by committee member Nandini Sen Mehra (Hindus for Human Rights).
At a time when conflict can feel overwhelming or impossible to act on, Peacemeal offers something different: a reminder that connection, dignity and hope can be built in small, everyday ways, starting with a shared meal.
Can food build peace? Join us for a conversation that's as nourishing as it is honest — a fitting way to open the season leading into our own Picnic for Peace, and the launch of our 'Food for Thought' kitchen-table style conversations in Sydney.
Join us Thursday, October 8th from 5pm AEDT.
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Jowunguh (Helen) Bishop
Professor Jowunguh (Helen) Bishop is a Kungarakan woman of the Northern Territory, Australia. Her focus is to expand procedural fairness, dispute resolution, problem-solving, and participatory agreement-making, specifically to enhance First Nation Australians' access to growing such services across Australia. That they can grow their cultural approaches to engage First Nations peoples as participants and designers of their own solutions, to enable cultural imperatives, kinship governance, community cohesion, and social wellbeing.
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Essan Dileri
Essan Dileri is a Rotary Peace Fellow and currently works as a Senior Diversity and Intercultural Advisor at Melton City Council based in Western Metro Melbourne. He completed his MA in International Development in Republic of Ireland. His MA thesis was on alternative livelihoods, from opium poppy growth and production to saffron conducted in Afghanistan. He also completed his MBA from Preston University in Peshawar, Pakistan. He has published a book "Raised in Conflict" in 2013 sharing first-hand tales of conflict from his country Afghanistan. Essan is a Peace-Meal Contributor, as well as Host and Facilitator. He is also part of the University of Melbourne's Intercultural Advisory Group and Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust Community Advisory Committee member.
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