Trinity College The University of Melbourne: Peacebuilder’s Conference 2020 – Healing Our Stories

Peacebuilder’s 2020 is no ordinary online event…

Join University of Notre Dame Associate Professor for Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding David Anderson Hooker for a discussion about how the arts can help heal generational trauma and shape new beginnings in line with the theme Healing Our Stories.

We’ll consider your stories and the stories of your ancestors, and will look into how you can build on the legacies you have inherited to lead change.

This free conference also includes a LIVE PERFORMANCE by Australian X Factor winner, 2017 Australian Eurovision representative and Masked Singer contestant Isaiah Firebrace.

With all that and more (including creative presentations by Trinity College staff and students), the Peacebuilder’s

Conference promises to be the best lunch break you’ll take in 2020!

Venue: Online Zoom conference (the Zoom link will be sent to participants the week of the conference)

RSVP: Monday 21 September 2020 

Enquiries: Heather Cetrangolo, Pathways School Chaplain | fschaplain@trinity.unimelb.edu.au | 0434 752 372

David Anderson Hooker, is Associate Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at the KROC Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. David has worked with communities, governments, and international NGOs and civil society organisations on post-conflict community building, environmental justice, and other issues of public policy and social justice. David has managed multi-party conflicts, conducted workshops, and consulted across the United States and around the world. He is a lawyer who has represented the State of Georgia as an Assistant Attorney General. He has taught graduate courses in negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, conflict analysis, trauma healing and conflict transformation at Eastern Mennonite University.  From 2010–15, David was a Senior Fellow for Community Engagement Strategies at the University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. He is President and Principal Consultant of CounterStories Consulting, LLC, where his work focuses on narrative alignment for civic, community and faith leaders. 

Isaiah Firebrace, hailing from the banks of the Murray River just outside Melbourne, Isaiah first stepped into the spotlight in 2016 when he was crowned winner of the eighth season of The X Factor Australia. Since then he’s grabbed global attention for his #1 single ‘It’s Gotta Be You’, which is now certified Platinum in Australia, 2 X Platinum in Sweden, Gold in Norway and Gold in Denmark.  In 2017 Isaiah performed in the Eurovision Song Contest grand final with his single ‘Don’t Come Easy’, toured nationally with his friend and mentor Jessica Mauboy, and completed his first European press junket with stops across Scandinavia, the UK, Belgium and France. Isaiah’s music has been streamed over 200 million times worldwide. He will be joining Peacebuilder’s 2020 and singing his 2020 release ‘Spirit’ – a reflection on his journey as an Indigenous Australian artist.