Atelier Gardens *Talk with Dr. Scilla Elworthy

Guidance from female leadership in times of war and AI
Atelier Gardens *Talk with Dr. Scilla Elworthy

In this talk, Scilla Elworthy will share her experience of the power of female leadership in peace negotiations and other crucial situations. Women, she shows, tend to excel at skills that are crucial for breaking cycles of violence, such as patience, listening, and intuiting ways forward that ‘enlarge the pie’. These skills, incidentally perhaps, are also things that set human intelligence apart from artificial intelligence. In this view, the current world situation can also be seen as an opportunity to cultivate these skills and move towards realising our human potential.

Join us for an evening of inspiration and dialogue in Atelier Gardens’ TON 1. Please click here to register.

Details:

14th May 2024
Doors and refreshments at 6pm
Talk 7-8:30, followed by informal conversation.

About:

Dr Scilla Elworthy is a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, from 1982 – 2002. She founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas, was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003, the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2020 and the GOI Peace Award in 2023. She advised Peter Gabriel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’.

Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1,500,000 people. In 2018 she founded The Business Plan for Peace  to help prevent destructive conflict and build sustainable peace throughout the world, based on her latest books The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017), The Mighty Heart: how to transform conflict (2020), and The Mighty Heart in Action (2022).