About this Event
The UK faces profound and urgent questions about identity, belonging, and social cohesion. Communities are navigating trauma, inequality, and cultural division.
- How can communities rebuild trust across difference?
- What does belonging look like in a fractured society?
- How do we move from division to genuine human connection?
If you feel concerned and do not want to remain a bystander, come join us for a dialogue on how to promote compassion, and cohesion based on a novel proven approach in America.
Agenda
Introductions (10 mins)
Documentary introduction by Mandar Apte (5 mins)
Documentary (45 mins)
Experience sharing (10 mins)
Q&A: What do we do in the UK? (40 mins)
Actions (10 mins)
Mandar is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a former head of shell's social innovation program and now manages cities4peace a strategic peacebuilding initiative of the Art of Living Foundation. He is the Producer & Director of From India With Love - a documentary film that promotes compassion, and cohesion. Mandar is also an Advisor to a special project at the UN Peacebuilding Office. He will be hosting the session to share his work in America and invite a discussion and collaboration with RSA Fellows on his envisioned plans to produce an educational documentary film that would promote compassion and cohesion in the UK.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Steps, RSA House, The Steps, London, United Kingdom
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