DUBLIN PEACE POD

PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH
leading international peacebuilders

on



CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE








WEDNESDAY JULY 2 2014 7PM

Doyles bar, college green, Dublin 2


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DUBLIN PEACE POD


CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE LAUNCH EVENT




speakers & facilitators



IFRAH AHMED

SOMALIA



Ifrah Ahmed is a Somali social activist. She is the founder
of the NGO United Youth of Ireland,
(https://www.facebook.com/UnitedYouthofIreland) bringing
together dedicated young people aged 15 - 25 from many
countries (including Ireland, Africa and Eastern Europe) who
form a vibrant cadre of volunteers working for a cause in
service of the communities where they operate. UYI also
supports young people from migrant communities in their
artistic, creative and business endeavours.

Having fled the Somali civil war, Ifrah landed in Dublin in 2006 to begin a new life in exile as an asylum
seeker from one of the most intractable conflicts on the African continent. She quickly found herself in social
activism, fighting for the rights of new communities in Ireland, such as refugees and newcomers from Africa,
East Europe and other parts of the world.

Her recent campaigning against gender-based violence and FGM (female genital mutilation) has raised
awareness for this issue and brought it to the attention of UN Ambassador, Angelina Jolie. She is also the
founder of the Ifrah Foundation (https://www.facebook.com/IfrahFoundation) to help Somali children
devastated by war.











IAN WHITE

IRELAND



Ian White has worked at the forefront of international
peacebuilding for the better part of thirty years. Originally from
Belfast, Ian worked as Chief Executive and as the International
Programme Director of the Glencree Cetnre for Peace &
Reconciliation. (www.glencree.ie).

He was instrumental in establishing Glencree as one of the
worlds most significant peacebuilding organisations. Glencree peacebuilding programmes aim to
extend the lessons learned from the Northern Ireland peace process to groups in other conflict
situations to help them form their own peace processes. Ian has worked in many countries
including Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Haiti and Liberia. He has also played a major role in the
development of Political Dialogue work at Glencree.





EAMON RAFTER

IRELAND




Eamon Rafter is the Learning Co-ordinator at Glencree Centre
for Peace & Reconciliation (www.glencree.ie) where he has
worked since 2005.

He is a peace educator and facilitator with responsibility for
education and training programmes with schools, youth,
university, adult and community groups. He has worked on peacebuilding programmes in Ireland
north and south, Israel & Palestine, South Africa, Afghanistan and in many European countries(








MARC LEVITTE

FRANCE


Marc Levitte has worked as a business and management
consultant and coach for thirty years helping people and
corporations to reach their potential and maximise their
productivity. He uses approaches that facilitate personal wisdom
and collective intelligence with participatory methods. Marc has
been working with humanitarian programmes in West
Africa, India and South America, including the Vibrant
Village Foundation, Ecuador (http://www.vibrantvillage.org),
the Prem Rawat Foundation (www.tprf.org) and Montana
de Esperanza, Ecuador
(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Montaa-de-
Esperanza/415442289497) with a peacebuilding programme with
local street gangs. He is the co-founder of the NGO APBE (Agir
pour la Paix et le Bien Etre) in Cote
dIvoire (http://www.ong-apbe.org/accueil.php).






SARAH FRANKLYN

IRELAND


Sarah Franklyn is the founder of The Dublin Peace
POD & Natural Capital Services
(www.naturalcapitalservices.com), a social enterprise
organisation that develops environmental agricultural
education training programmes, with a specific focus on
gender and subsistence farmer empowerment through the
development of sustainable livelihoods in 30 countries
including Kenya, S.Africa, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, & also in the Middle East.
NCS advocates that community-based natural resource management, environmental sustainability
and sustainable livelihoods can be major factors in Creating a Culture of Peace.