Location: Crikvenica, Croatia

Dates: June 25-July 6, 2023

June 28, 2023 - Positive and Negative Peace (Bryan Carey) - This interactive activity discusses the complexity of peace and how a fragile, cold, or “negative” peace is a necessary starting place to begin diving into the complex and messy work of peacebuilding toward a positive and sustainable just peace. 

June 29, 2023 - Mainstream and Margin (Bryan Carey) - This workshop focuses on experiences of being in the mainstream and on the margin. Participants draw upon personal experiences of being marginalized in order to build deeper awareness about how we can use our position when we are in the mainstream in order to hear from and include those held on the margins.

July 3, 2024 - Disrupted Peace (Mirela Popaja-Hadžić) - This workshop invites participants to draw upon personal experiences in order to grapple with the realities of violation and harm, exploring the challenges of the healing process and discovering ways in which we can each work toward our own healing and wholeness. 

July 4, 2024 - Cycles of Trauma (Mirela Popaja-Hadžić) - This presentation centers on cycles of harm and the meaning and role of forgiveness in the process of trauma healing. Since the challenges and possibilities of forgiveness are an ongoing point of conversation at this conference, this presentation invites all participants to consider the relationship between forgiveness, healing, trust building, boundaries, and the possibility of reconciliation.