Tuesday, February 4th 2025, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

1233 37th St NW (The Green House)

Dinner will be served
If interested, please fill out a brief application form by Tuesday, January 28th @ 5:00 pm; space is limited.

About the Facilitator

About the Speakers

Eli S. McCarthy, Director of Programs at D.C. Peace Team and Adjunct Professor of Justice and Peace Studies, has led numerous training in nonviolent communication, unarmed civilian protection, and bystander intervention. He also helps facilitate the deployments of DCPT’s unarmed civilian protection units. He is a professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the Justice and Peace Studies Program. His most recent book is titled A Just Peace Ethic: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020). In 2012,  Eli published Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy. He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti, where he worked with people living in poverty, working with people experiencing homelessness in Boston and Washington, DC, monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and leading strategic nonviolent resistance campaigns. 

Eliane Lakam, D.C. Peace Team Facilitator, is a peace educator and consultant on gender-responsive policies with a background in peace and security, housing justice, environmental justice, and racial justice. Her work focuses on advancing nonviolence and climate action and promoting women’s participation—as critical actors—in all efforts to achieve sustainable peace and justice.  Eliane’s training sessions empower participants to embrace nonviolence as a way of life and are rooted in the the promotion of human rights and dignity. Through interactive, context-relevant and trauma-informed approaches, she has trained people from all backgrounds and walks of life in the U.S and globally, including community and religious leaders, activists, elected officials, college students, and educators. She is a proud Hoya and completed graduate studies at Harvard University.