Community Healing in Sierra Leone

"Community Healing in Sierra Leone"

A first-person account by John Caulker,
Sierra Leonean and executive director of Forum on Conscience and Fambul Tok.

Date: Oct 14, Wednesday
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: “The Tank”
354 W. 45 St., between 8 & 9 Aves.

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A face-to-face community owned program, Fambul Tok brings together
perpetrators and victims of the violence through ceremonies rooted in
the local traditions of the villages that were affected. It provides
Sierra Leonean citizens with an opportunity to come to terms with what
happened during the war, to dialogue, to experience healing, and to
chart a new path forward -- together.

On Wednesday, Oct. 14, John Caulker, founder of Forum of Conscience, a
Sierra Leonean human rights group that developed Fambul Tok in
collaboration with Catalyst for Peace, a U.S.-based foundation, will
discuss the need for rural community participation in the national
decision making process, and acknowledgement of wrongdoing to victims
through the reparations program.

A rough cut of a powerful, emotionally moving, and soon-to-be
completed documentary “Fambul Tok” will be shown preceding Mr.
Caulker's presentation. Additional panelists to be announced. Don’t
miss this unique evening that examines a path to reconciliation that
may have something to teach our conflicted world.