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Building Cultures of Peace 2008

~ Info on pre-conference CANVAS training, Sept 9-10, 2008 ~

PCSC is pleased to announce that we will be collaborating with the Peace and Justice Studies Association in co-hosting their national conference September 11-14th, 2008 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

The conference theme of “Building Cultures of Peace” will explore historical, current and potential future elements of the local, regional, national and transnational struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means. Read more about the conference theme here.

Program Announced

Now is the time to register!

An online registration form is available here.
A downloadable registration form that can be mailed in is available here.

For more information, please contact us at info@peaceandconflictstudies.org.

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include...

Sami Rasouli, founder and director of Muslim Peacemaker Teams. Sami is coming from Iraq.

Two Hibakusha (survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), coming from Japan.

Betty Reardon, one of the great figures of Peace Education, emeritus from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Kathy Kelly, founder of Voice for Creative Nonviolence.

Col. Ann Wright, 30 years U.S. military and foreign service.

Kayse Jama, founder of Center for Intercultural Organizing.

Catherine Thomasson, M.D., president of the US Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Stella Ting-Toomey, a world expert on intercultural conflict resolution.

Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco Politics professor and co-editor of two books on nonviolence.

Jo Ann Bowman, director of Oregon Action, specializing in political empowerment of the most disenfranchised.

"Bumpy" Pu'uhonua Kanahele, indigenous Hawaiian sovereignty leader sworn to Gandhian methods.
 

 
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