• Moderator: Mark Lance, Georgetown University
• Participants:
  • Peter McLaren, UCLA
  • Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco
  • David Price, St. Martin's College
  • Therese Saliba, The Evergreen State College
  • Clint Fink, Purdue University

How Big Is Your Voice?
Moderator: Shailja Patel, Artist, Oakland, CA

The size of our voices, as artists or activists, cannot exceed the size of our humanity. The measure of our humanity is the extent to which we embody the values we stand for in our work. How do we live out justice, truth, courage, love, freedom, respect, generosity, service, humility, both on and off the page, platform or stage? How do our words, actions and presence make space for all voices, especially those which are silenced?

In this workshop, we will access and explore silenced voices, in ourselves, our communities, and our global society. We will look at our responsibility to call out silenced voices in all the spaces we occupy and platforms we speak from. Exercises will include yoga, movement, mime, breathwork, writing and vocal expression. Expect to leave buzzing with ideas for creative work, and several tools to unleash silenced voices in yourself and your communities!

Please wear loose comfortable clothing that you can move and stretch easily in.

The Content and Process of Non-violent Education: Popular Education at the Labor Center at Evergreen

Popular education respects and builds on the experiences of participants and has the anti-authoritarian intention of increasing participants' democratic skills and sensibilities. Likewise, the labor movement and union organizations have a history of resistance to oppression that is mostly non-violent and frequently instructive for current activists (and even the role of violence in labor struggles is worth reflecting on as well). Evergreen's Labor Center uses a popular education pedagogy in its workshops that incorporates discussion of non-violent resistance strategies by workers both historically and at the present time. In this workshop we will look at the Labor Center's pedagogy, review some of the workshops and programs of the past few years, and discuss issues in doing popular education with unions and union members in the current period of union decline.

The Power and Practicality of Nonviolence
Moderator: Glen Anderson, Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation

Some activists think that nonviolence is a nice tactic or a nice theory. But Gandhi, King and others believed that nonviolence works better than other methods partly because the universe was designed to work better through nonviolence than through violence. Nonviolence is very powerful and very practical. It is much more than a tactic. It is the best way to create social and political change. In the second part of the workshop, we will explore methods and strategies designed to take us beyond protest. We will examine ways to nonviolently resist and undermine the US's violent foreign policy, withdraw consent, refuse compliance, apply economic and political pressures, create alternatives, and practice mutiple forms of nonviolent resistance.

Preventing Violence in Our Schools: Classroom Activities and Strategies for Teachers and Counselors
Moderator: Gerry Dunne, Author and Facilitator

This workshop focuses on the elements of a curriculum (Published by Jalmar Press, Revised, 2002) under the same title. The curriculum is designed to enable students in grades 4 through 12 to build positive relationships with each other and develop the skills of nonviolence. Key areas of focus include: interpersonal communication, anger management, choosing influences, conflict management, and creating peace and harmony.

Cultural Awareness Project: Exploring Diversity, Developing Acceptance
Moderators: Nancy Caplan and Jelani Quinn, CRU Institute, Seattle

• Grassroots Peacebuilding in Post Civil War Guatemala: Three Models
  Julie Hart, Bethel College
• Eastern Germany, North Korea and West Bloomington
  Roy Wolff, Veterans for Peace, Minneapolis
• Student Activism in Cyberspace: A Comparative Analysis of Zapatista Supporters and MoveOn Peace
  Sheryl Shirley, Plymouth State University
• The Emerging Social Responsibility Movement: A "Positive Peace Movement"
  Ellis Jones, Sacramento City College

• Gendering Social Movements: Feminist and Antiracist Agenda in Democratic Action
  Ilena Feinman, California State University, Monterey Bay
• Feminist Deconstructions of the War on Terror
  Berenice Carroll, Purdue University
• The Patriarchal Order and Its Role in the Culture of Violence
  Jennifer Terry, Earlham College
• Relational Empowerment: Cross cultural descriptions of women's strength through relationship
  Leyla Welkin, Independent Scholar, Seattle

• The National Campaign on Peace Education: Building A Structure for the Peace Education Movement
  Leah C. Wells, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
• Peace Academy Curriculum Project: Exploring the Principles to Integrate Peace Education into the Mainstream
  Wendy Strgar, Global Peace Academy Network

• Emergent Peacemakers in the New Millennium: Implications for Peace and Conflict Resolution Curricula
  Warren Haffar, Arcadia University
• Global Justice and Conflict Resolution
  Tom Hastings, Portland State University
• Connecting Issues of Violence to Foster Dialogue Among Diverse Activists
  Rachel MacNair, Inst. for Integrated Social Analysis

• Nation-State and Cultures of Multiple National Identities in the Middle East: Towards Integration or Confrontation?
  Amin Kazak, University of Colorado at Denver
• The Challenge of Cultural and Religious Diversity and Peacebuilding in an Interdependent World
  Linda Groff, California State University, Dominguez Hills & Global Options Consulting
• Confronting Islam Bashing after 9-11
  Zahid Sherif, The Evergreen State College

• Peace Education Evaluation
  Ian Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Evaluating Peace Studies Programs
  Connie Popp, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• How Community Organizations Exercise Power?
  Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College
• Analyzing Group System Dynamics in Peace Work
  Joanie Connors, University of Arkanass
• The Hopes and dangers of using spokes councils consensus processes in grassroots organizing
  Eli Moore, Oakland, CA

• Cultural Economics: A New Paradigm for Lula, for America, and for all Victims of the Global Economy
  Howard Richards and Caroline Higgins, Earlham College
• The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Policy: Lessons and strategies for the Peace Movement
  Peter Bohmer, The Evergreen State College

• What does it mean to be a member of a "globalized" workforce? Reflections on the Experience of Seafarers
  Tom Matyok, Nova Southeastern University and Jan Saltzgaber
• What have Indonesians and Australians learned from the October 2002 bombing in Bali, about terrorism, Islam, justice and alternatives to violence
  Ronnie Hatley, Washington State University
• WWI revisited: Hiroshima, Reconciliation and Grandparent Oral Histories
  Barbara Cooney, Kobe College, Japan
• The US, Europe, and the War in Iraq
  James Skelly, Brethren Colleges Abroad & Juniata College

• Envisioning Peace: Use of the Visual Arts in Peacemaking and Peace Education
  Carol Rank, Coventry University
• Nonviolence Education: Theory and Practice
  Michael Nagler, University of California at Berkeley
• Teaching Peace through Teaching English as a Second Language
  Susan Donaldson and Paula Albertson, Tacoma Community College
• Dealing with Controversy and Conflict in A Peace Studies Classroom
  Christine Hansvick, Pacific Lutheran University

• Causes, Effects and Solutions to Violence: A Course for 12th Grade Students
  Elizabeth Corrie, The Lovett School, Atlanta Georgia
• The Power of Peace: Peace Scouts in Olympia
  Mary Coacher, Peace Scouts, Olympia
• Nurturing Creative Human Beings: A Violence Prevention Curriculum
  Cecil Ramnaraine, Minneapolis

• How can the mass of people become conscious of the forces that choke their aspirations and their voice?
• What strategies can we devise for gaining a continuous voice at the table where war and peace decisions are made?
• What organizational structures and ongoing activities can effect the participation of the mass people in political processes?

• Michi Thacker, Lincoln Elementary, Olympia
• Jana Dean, Bush Middle School, Olympia
• Sue Feldman, Olympia Department of Education

• Violence, Nonviolence, and Education In Africa
  Matt Meyer, NYC Board of Education
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Role of Ubuntu in South Africa's Choice of a Restorative Justice Model
  Paula Young, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Disarmament: In Search of a New Paradigm
  Peter Dorman, The Evergreen State College

• A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders
  Larry Mosqueda, The Evergreen State College
• Challenging the Militarization of Toys and Its Impact
  Dennis Mills, Olympia Society of Friends

• Educating for Peace Action and Nonviolent Futures
  Donna McInnis, Soka University, Japan
• Ned McGlynn, Siena College
• Forging an Alternative to Permanent War: Strategies for Peace and Justice in the Post 9/11 World
  Joel Federman

• Violence in a Nonviolent World (or Nonviolence in a Violent World)
  Linda Groff, California State University, Dominguez Hills & Global Options Consulting
• The Scarab and the visionary: Carl Jung's Synchonicity, Symbology and Peace Rhetoric
  Ellen Gorsevski, Washington State University
• Political Democracy as an Alternative to Violence
  Ronald J. Glossop, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

• Returning to the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and Peace Education in an Age of Terror
  Michael Flynn, York College, City University of New York
• Fostering Alternatives to Violence: The Meaning of Terrorism
  Robert Gould, Portland State University
• Environmental Risks and War: Media Reporting
  Keith Cotton and Anne Criss, The Evergreen State College

• The "Personality" of Imperialism: Starting Points for Resistance
  Noah De Lissovoy, University of California at Los Angeles
• Allies: Becoming Global Citizens
  Leyla Welkin, Independent Scholar, Seattle
• Neoliberal Citizenship, the New Imperialism, and Federal Education Policy: A Critical Analysis
  Nathalia Jaramillo and Peter McLaren, University of California at Los Angeles