D.O.V.E.
Diakonia Overcoming Violence Experience
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The DOTAC Overcoming Violence Experience (DOVE) is designed to build an international team that will participate in a multicultural, hands-on, action-reflection experience, related to overcoming violence in the world. The first event was held in 2007 in New York City (USA).
For the next event in 2012, DOTAC will assemble a team of 12 persons, three from Canada, three from the Caribbean, three from Brazil, and three from the United States. The team will gather in Recife, Olinda, and Gravata (site of the Hip Hop DIAKAID Project), Brazil. The event is being hosted by CECOSNE (Centro de Comunicacao Social do Nordeste).
Participants will be expected to:
Find ways to initiate action / reflection experiences in their own country.
Write reflections to share with the group, their own community, and DOTAC.
Seek ways to provide leadership and develop networks to assist others in addressing the issues that have arisen from the Decade to Overcome Violence.
Some important components of this event will include community building, cultural exchange, and Biblical and theological reflection. It will reflect a holistic approach to violence. It will include a balance between the theoretical and the practical as well as enable participants to gain a better understanding of the problems and consequences of violence and to explore some things they can do to overcome
violence.
Deaconess Lisa Scherzer Polito DOTAC President
DOVE will take place beginning September 12, 2012
in Recife, Olinda, and Gravata, BRAZIL.