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 Monday 6 Tuesday 7 Wednesday 8 Thursday 9 Friday 10
0800-0900 Final registration Prayers
0900-1030 Opening Ceremony Documentary Screening Trip to Gugulethu Keynote Presentation III TO BE ANNOUNCED
1030-1100 COFFEE BREAK Regional Perspectives COFFEE BREAK
1100-1200 Keynote Presentation I Keynote Presentation II Coffee Break Keynote Presentation IV
1200-1300 Regional Perspectives Regional Perspectives Documentary Screening Regional Perspectives
1300-1430 LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK
1430-1530
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
Plenary Panel Discussion
COFFEE BREAK
Declaration
Honorary Life Memberships
+ Communication for Peace Award
1530-1600 COFFEE BREAK Trip to Robben Island COFFEE BREAK
1600-1700
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
1700-1800
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
  • Learning Streams
  • Explorations
  • Writing for Peace Workshop
1800-2000 DINNER + FREE TIME Closing Ceremony
Reception + Dinner
2000-2200 Free Time Film Screening Free Time Film Screening

Key to Programme

Plenary sessions take place in the main conference room of the Life Church. There will be simultaneous interpretation into English, Spanish and French.
  • Learning Streams (LS1 - LS4) take place in assigned meeting rooms in the Life Church.
  • Writing Workshop (W4P) takes place in assigned suite at Ritz Hotel.
  • Explorations (E1 - E6) take place in assigned meeting rooms in the Ritz Hotel and the Life Church. These one-hour-long sessions are open to all participants who are not taking part in Learning Streams or the workshop on ‘Writing for Peace’. Sessions will be offered in the language in which they are described here. There will be no simultaneous interpretation for these sessions. Exploration leaders have been asked to begin and end exactly on time.
LS1
Communication Rights
Life Church - Room TBA 		LS2
Media and Gender Justice
Life Church - Room TBA 		LS3
Power, conflict and peace
Life Church - Room TBA 		LS4
New communication and information technologies & peace
Life Church - Room TBA

E1
Ritz:TBA		 E2
Ritz: TBA		 E3
Ritz: TBA		 E4
Ritz: BC		 E5
Ritz: TBA		 E6
Ritz: TBA		 Writing Workshop
Ritz: TBA

Monday 6 October

0700-0800BREAKFAST
0830-0900FINAL REGISTRATIONS
0900-1030 Opening Ceremony: ‘Celebrating Africa’s diversity’ Roll Call of Honour: ‘Cloud of Witnesses’
1030-1100COFFEE BREAK
1100-1200 Theme 1: Communication rights - DOREEN SPENCE Presentation (40’) followed by questions and discussion (20’)
1200-1300 Theme 1: Two voices from Asia and the Caribbean offering regional perspectives followed by questions and comments (15’ + 15’ + 15’ + 15’). Samuel Meshack (India) and Ary Régis (Haiti).
1300-1430LUNCH BREAK
1430-1530 LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 W4P E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
1530-1600COFFEE BREAK
1600-1700                      
1700-1800                      
1800-2000 DINNER + FREE TIME
2000-2200 NO EVENING EVENT
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Tuesday 7 October

0700-0800BREAKFAST
0800-0900PRAYERS
0900-0915Recognising members of the WACC family
0915-1030

DOCUMENTARY: Shock Waves (InformAction Productions) 2007. (52 mins) followed by discussion.

The realities of local radio reporting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a country torn by civil war where people are struggling to rebuild their communities. Winner of the best Canadian documentary on international development (2008) and of the WACC-SIGNIS human rights film award (2008).
1030-1100 COFFEE BREAK
1100-1200 Theme 2: Media and gender justice - JOANNE SANDLER Presentation (40’) followed by questions and discussion (20’)
1200-1300 Theme 2: Two voices from Latin America and Europe offering regional perspectives followed by questions and comments (15’ + 15’ + 15’ + 15’). Dennis Smith (Guatemala) and Karin Achtelstetter (Germany).
1300-1430LUNCH BREAK
1430-1530 LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 W4P E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
1530-1600 COFFEE BREAK
1600-1700                      
1700-1800                      
1800-2000DINNER + FREE TIME
2000-2200

Film

Sometimes in April, directed by Raoul Peck(France/USA/Rwanda, 2005)

An epic story of courage in the face of daunting odds, as well as an exposé of the West’s inability to act as nearly one million Rwandans were being killed during the genocide of 1994. The plot focuses on two brothers caught up in the conflict between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority.
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Wednesday 8 October

Gugulethu

Congress participants will spend a morning in the nearby township of Gugulethu where they will have the opportunity to talk with members of the local community at the Gugulethu Presbyterian Church. Discussion will focus on the impact of apartheid on the district and how people are working together to meet today’s challenges.

Robben Island

In the afternoon, participants will travel by ferry from Cape Town to Robben Island, site of the maximum-security prison where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 27 years. Guides will take small groups round the island where 3000 political prisoners were held between 1961 and 1991 and will explain the importance of the prison’s history to contemporary South Africa. Tickets for this trip are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served bases from Monday 19h00 at the Congress Registration desk in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel.

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Thursday 9 October

0700-0800BREAKFAST
0800-0900PRAYERS
0900-1000Theme 3: Power, conflict and peace: Telling the story - RUTH OJIAMBO-OCHIENG Presentation (40’) followed by questions and discussion (20’)
1000-1100Theme 3: Two voices from Middle East and North America offering regional perspectives followed by questions and comments (15’ + 15’ + 15’ + 15’). Riad Jarjour (Lebanon) and Glory Dharmaraj (USA).
1100-1130COFFEE BREAK
1130-1300DOCUMENTARY: Reel Bad Arabs (Media Education Foundation) 2006. (50 mins) followed by discussion. There is an astonishing and persistent pattern of Arab stereotyping in Hollywood films running from 1920s ‘silents’ to present-day ‘blockbusters’. Reel Bad Arabs takes a devastating tour of this film landscape to expose US cinema’s penchant for Arab villainy and buffoonery.
1300-1430LUNCH BREAK
1430-1530 LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 W4P E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6
1530-1600 COFFEE BREAK
1600-1700                      
1700-1800                      
1800-2000DINNER + FREE TIME
2000-2200

Film

IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR

Ramadan Suleman, director of Zulu Love Letter, will attend the screening of his film on Thursday 9 October and discuss it with participants.

Zulu Love Letter, directed by Ramadan Suleman (South Africa, 2004)

It is ten years since the last vestiges of apartheid's political regime were dismantled. For the average South African, the notion of struggle has been all too quickly relegated to the question of which cellular network is better than the next. But for Thandi, a journalist suffering from writer's block, a more profound struggle continues to rage within.
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Explorations Series: Peace Arts in Parishes

Leader: Bob Haverluck

The workshop series Peace Arts in Parishes on Thursday afternoon offers a unique opportunity for lay and ordained congregational leaders to work with preacher and cartoonist, Rev. Bob Haverluck, on developing creative peace communication ideas for parishes. The workshops will explore how artists and creative people of all kinds can work at the parish level to contribute to peace building in the community. Haverluck will present proven strategies from around the world where groups for social transformation use what he calls “the peoples’ arts” in peace making. These include theatre of the poor, poster projects done in the language of ordinary people, and liturgy and preaching

Friday 10 October

0700-0800BREAKFAST
0800-0900PRAYERS
0900-1030TO BE ANNOUNCED
1030-1100COFFEE BREAK
1100-1200Theme 4: New information and communication technologies and peace - MARCELO REZENDE GUIMARAES Presentation (40’) followed by questions and discussion (20’)
1200-1300Theme 4: Two voices from Africa and the Pacific offering regional perspectives followed by questions and comments (15’ + 15’ + 15’ + 15’). Amie Joof-Cole (Senegal) and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls (Fiji).
1300-1430LUNCH BREAK
1430-1545

PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION

What role can communicators play in the proposed UN Decade of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation?
1545-1615COFFEE BREAK
1615-1715Declaration
1715-1800Honorary Life Memberships + Communication for Peace Award
1800-2000

CLOSING CEREMONY

  • Installation of new WACC President by Dr Musimbi Kanyoro and Rev Randy Naylor
  • ‘Celebrating WACC’: Rev Randy Naylor, WACC General Secretary
  • Concluding Prayer and Benediction: Bishop Horace Etemesi
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