1,500 EXPECTED TO ATTEND ANTI-VIOLENCE CONFERENCE.Byline: - Holly Edwards NORTHRIDGE - Peace, healing and multicultural mul·ti·cul·tur·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, or including several cultures. 2. Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture. understanding are the themes of the fifth annual Ending Violence Against Women Conference to be held today at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . About 1,500 students, educators, victim advocates and abuse survivors are expected to attend the all-day, free event. Multicultural and interfaith in·ter·faith adj. Of, relating to, or involving persons of different religious faiths: an interfaith marriage; an interfaith forum. observances have been added to the conference schedule to honor those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Other highlights will include a workshop on patterns of violence against women in various ethnic cultures. Jean Morrison, the founder of the event, said all survivors of violence share similar feelings of trauma and anger, and survivors of domestic violence are likely to feel a sense of kinship kinship, relationship by blood (consanguinity) or marriage (affinity) between persons; also, in anthropology and sociology, a system of rules, based on such relationships, governing descent, inheritance, marriage, extramarital sexual relations, and sometimes with those who lost loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl in the terrorist attacks. To combat such acts of aggression, Morrison encouraged a commitment to peace and nonviolence. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University Student Union. |
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