Justice for All: Overcoming Barriers to Peace and Safety in the Christian Home

May 13-15, 2011, Columbia Bible College

(Abbotsford [Vancouver], British Columbia, Canada)

PASCH (Peace and Safety in the Christian Home), an evangelical Christian organization, invites session and paper proposals for our 5th conference that will be held in Abbotsford, British Columbia.  The conference will be a venue for the discussion of strategies, research projects, best practices, legal processes, and therapeutic initiatives related to creating peace and safety in the Christian home, Christian responses to wife abuse, and other forms of domestic violence.  

Come and join with other victim/survivors, researchers, theologians, therapists, pastors, social activists, community advocates, shelter workers, and faith community members as we network to respond to the needs of victims of domestic violence and to promote healthy, peaceful family living.  Although a wide range of session and paper topics are encouraged, we especially solicit those concerned with the following:

• Faith-based batterer intervention programs;
• The impact of domestic violence on children;
• Therapeutic strategies for facilitating hope and healing for victims;
• Biblical mandate for peace and safety in the home;
• Safety planning;
• Pastoral leadership in understanding and addressing violence in families of faith;
• Justice system responses to domestic violence;
• Pastoral counseling for victims and those who act violently;
• Narratives of pain and despair of victims;
• Bridge building between sacred and secular agencies;
• Pragmatic strategies for assisting families in crisis;
• Liturgy and resources for individuals and congregations.

Proposals for sessions and papers should be sent to:

Dr. Barbara Fisher-Townsend, Program Chair
7 Duke Street
Fredericton, New Brunswick
CANADA   E3A 4J4
506-453-7826
Email:   fisher.townsend@unb.ca

Deadlines: 

• Paper Proposals (title and 200 word abstract):   October 31, 2010
• Session Proposals (title and description):   September 30, 2010