Date of Lecture: October 28, 2019
About the Speaker: Pietro Ameglio is a leading Mexican nonviolence theorist and activist. A professor of Peace and Nonviolence Culture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he co-founded the Mexican Peace and Justice Service, Thinking Out Loud — a Gandhian-inspired nonviolent action collective created to analyze and publicize statistical information on the nature of social conflict in Mexico and promote nonviolent direct — and Movement for Peace and Justice with Dignity, which emerged in 2011 in response to the spiraling toll of the dead and disappeared in the so-called “war on drugs.”
About the Lecture: Ameglio reflects on the migrant caravan, nonviolent resistance to the drug war, and other mass actions for peace in Central America.
His talk at the º£½ÇÉçÇø is co-sponsored by Peace and Conflict Studies; the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture; the Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies; and Political Science; in collaboration with the Center for Nonviolent Solutions.