A virtual Mercy Peace Forum, featuring Joanne Sheehan, activist for peace and justice, is set for Monday, March 20 from 7-8:15 p.m.
The virtual event and discussion is free, but registration is required. Registrants will receive an email with a Zoom link.
Sheehan has been a nonviolence activist, organizer and trainer with War Resisters League (WRL) since the 1970s and a former chair of War Resisters International (London, 1998-2006). She co-founded the WRL New England Regional Office in 1984 and continues as the coordinator. She has worked on many nonviolent campaigns including feminism and nonviolence, anti-nuclear weapons and power, countering military recruitment, youth empowerment and economic conversion of the military-industrial complex.
Sheehan has lectured throughout the world on nonviolence.
The event is organized and co-sponsored by the Peace History Society along with universities sponsored by the Religious Sisters of Mercy, including Georgian Court University, Gwynedd Mercy University, University of Saint Joseph and Detroit Mercy.
Register for the forum.
