Encouraging Women encourages women from all walks of life.
Dr Caroline Taylor comes to NhillWritten by Lisa Mostyn
Encouraging Women of Nhill Victoria Australia, in partnership with Salvation Army and Wimmera Family Violence Prevention Network is proud to have Dr Caroline Taylor speak at their upcoming function on November 3rd 2004. Encouraging Women is a non party political and non profit group aiming to provide high profile guest speakers to encourage, stimulate and motivate women in our community. Encouraging Women was developed in response to an identified need within community to facilitate and support women from all walks of life and experiences. Encouraging Women is a subcommittee of Nhill Neighbourhood House Learning CentreFormer Encouraging Women guest speakers include Mrs Lila Hensley; Dr Judith Slocombe - Telstra Australian Businesswoman of Year 2002; Ms Dur-e Dara - Restauranteur; The Hon. Joan Kirner - Former Victorian Premier; Christine Nixon - Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police and Ms Jenny Buckland - CEO Australian Children's Television Foundation. Encouraging Women has forged strong links within Nhill community and speakers often attend Nhill College to talk to students and staff. Dr Caroline Taylor is a University of Ballarat Post Doctoral Fellow. Dr Taylor was awarded 2001 Jean Martin Award by Australian Sociological Association for her groundbreaking research into way Victorian courts deal with rape within family and she is also included in 2002 Who's who of notable Australians. Dr Taylor has also successfully secured a criminology research grant of $55,905, with Dr Beverly Blaskett, also from University of Ballarat. Dr Taylor is herself a victim/survivor of sexual abuse and studied more than 17,000 pages of transcripts from every Victorian trial dealing with intrafamilial sexual abuse during 1995 for her PhD thesis. Dr Taylor's internationally acclaimed thesis has been published by American publisher Peter Lang entitled "Court Licensed Abuse" in a format that takes reader on a voyage of discovery into six different trials where every piece of evidence is revealed, even evidence withheld from jury. A second book, "Surviving The Legal System," launched recently at national Home Truths conference on sexual assault, is an insiders view of what it is to be a victim-witness in a rape trial in Victoria.
| | PeaceWritten by Jerry Lopper
Peace is a state of mind. Peace is not absence of war; war cannot exist in a state of peace. War is not an option for peaceful beings. Peace is a state of mind, an intention to live peacefully with all beings.Waging war will never bring peace, just a temporary cessation of war. The last war fuels and justifies next war. The last war teaches hatred, domination, and power. The last war trains leaders for next war. Peace is not without conflict. Conflict is an unavoidable result of diversity of human desires. In a state of peace, conflict is resolved without harm to anyone. Violence does not resolve conflict-it nourishes it. Peace is possible when each person, community, state, and country has access to life’s necessities, along with a reasonable opportunity to achieve life’s dream. You and I can bring peace to world. How many hundreds or thousands of beings do I encounter in my lifetime? How many do I influence with a peaceful state of mind? How many in turn, does each of them influence? A culture forms person by person over time. We built this culture of belief that war is acceptable, justifiable, and appropriate. You and I built this culture step by step, day by day. We idolize and glamorize violent behavior, praising and teaching violence through entertainment.
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