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About the Webinar:
Bees for Peace promotes pollinator protection through faith communities and humanitarian organizations. In addition to other activities, Bees for Peace seeks to establish blooming feeding sites for pollinators at houses of worship. These feeding sites form a “peace network,” as bees, imagined as peace ambassadors, visit the various feeding sites, thereby uniting disparate communities through this cross-pollination. By partnering with trained environmentalists, people of faith gain the technical and scientific know-how they need to mobilize both their spiritual and material resources to protect pollinators, while environmentalists improve their communication and outreach to this major sector of civil society. Bees for Peace also fosters interfaith cooperation, leading to greater social cohesion. The project thus seeks to create and preserve the common ground, ecologically and socially, that we all share. Begun in Cologne, Germany, in 2018, Bees for Peace was awarded recognition as an “official project of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.”

This talk begins with an analysis of Bees for Peace in its pilot phase in Cologne, then opens up into a community discussion about how the project might find roots in Toronto and contribute to the important work of pollinator protection in the city.

About the Speaker:
Carrie B. Dohe (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2012) recently started a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto School of the Environment, focusing on a project she started in Germany called Bees for Peace. This project builds bridges between religious organizations and nature conservationists to mobilize faith communities for pollinator protection. Bees for Peace was recognized as an Official Project of the UN Decade on Biodiversity in Germany in August 2020.

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