STUDENTS’ HAND OUT
A. READ ABOUT HILDEGARD GOSS-MAYR’S LIFE:
B. WATCH AND INTERVIEW TO HILDEGARD:
FIRST PART:
C. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. What does IFOR stand for?
2. What do they advocate for?
3. What beliefs do their members belong to?
4. How many times was Hildegard Goss Mayr nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
5. When did IFOR start?
6. Why did Fiedrich Siegmund-Schultze and Henry Hodgkin refuse to go to war?
7. Why were many Christians executed during the WWII?
8. How does she define nonviolence?
SECOND PART:
D. SAY IF THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE ACCORDING TO WHAT HILDEGARD SAYS:
1. She says there are people with no conscience.
2. She says nonviolent fight is never resignation to injustice.
3. The USA supported the cruel military dictatorship in the Philippines internationally.
4. Governments have entire responsibility for injustice.
5. Protest is part of the tasks to prevent unjust events, to be done when the violence is taking place, and after the event.
6. Training to develop a strategy is not important.
7. A protest tries to build a mass movement.
8. A protest has a political impact, although it is publicly admitted or not.
THIRD PART:
Work in teams:
As a child she experienced things she couldn’t reflect on and later she had to deal with them. She had to work very hard to rediscover that some things are stronger than hatred, destruction and violence. She felt that as she had survived the war, she had to devote her life to peace work.
“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” Leo Tolstoy.
1. First, talk about those things that you believe you have to thank for in your life.
2. Second, think of different thanksgiving awareness-raising actions to fight against injustice.
3. Third, plan the action you are going to carry out.
TEACHER’S NOTES:
FIRST PART:
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
1. What does IFOR stand for?
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
2. What do they advocate for?
Demilitarization, racial and economic justice and peaceful resolution to conflict.
3. What beliefs do their members belong to?
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and others, and people who do not belong to any religious.
4. How many times was Hildegard Goss Mayr nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Three
5. When did IFOR start?
During the First World
6. Why did Fiedrich Siegmund-Schultze and Henry Hodgkin refuse to go to war?
Because they have the conviction that war is in contradiction to the message of Jesus and to the peace building and that we have to use other means than violence to solve conflict.
7. Why were many Christians executed during the WWII?
Because they refused to go to war out of their Christians convictions.
8. How does she define nonviolence?
Fighting without a force that harms the other, but with another force: the force of truth and love.
SECOND PART:
SAY IF THESE STATEMENTS ARE TRUE OR FALSE ACCORDING TO WHAT HILDEGARD SAYS:
1. She says there are people with no conscience. F
2. She says nonviolent fight is never resignation to injustice. T
3. The USA supported the cruel military dictatorship in the Philippines internationally. T
4. Governments have entire responsibility for injustice. F
5. Protest is part of the tasks to prevent unjust events, to be done when the violence is taking place, and after the event. T
6. Training to develop a strategy is not important. F
7. A protest tries to build a mass movement. T
8. A protest has a political impact, although it is publicly admitted or not. T
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