Navajo Peacemaking Bringing Indigenous Wisdom into Healing Community Tragedies

Published: May 14, 2014, midnight

Tragedy not only destroys families it leaves aftershocks of substance abuse, violence and hatred within the community. Calling upon centuries of tradition and experience, Navajo Peacemakers use their traditional wisdom, methods and customs to help heal this tragedy.\xa0 Navajo Peacemaker, Robb Redsteer will discuss how this tradition moves communities through denial and anger to heal old wounds and return to balance.\n\nRobb Redsteer is the founder of the Naataanii Alliance for Peace and member of the Navajo Nation. He is an educator, trainer and tribal peacemaker with expertise in land use, environmental degradation, nutrition and cultural legacy.\n\nZena Zumeta, internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators.\xa0 She is president of the\xa0 Mediation Training & Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor, Michigan. \xa0Zena is a lawyer and a former president of the Academy of Family Mediators.\xa0\n\nStephen Kotev\xa0is a Washington D.C. based conflict resolution consultant offering mediation, negotiation, conflict analysis, facilitation, training and somatic education to private and government clients. He holds a Master of Science degree from George Mason University\u2019s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido.