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9:00 - 11:00am
Plenary Session A: |
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Spreading World Disorder,
Growing World Polarization: The Case of the Americas
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Moderator: Jeff Paris, USF |
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- Gonzalo Santos (Professor of
Historical Social Science, CSU Bakersfield, author of “Global
Singularities, Repetitive Diversities: The Conundrum of
Peoplehood in the XXI-Century World-System”),
Gonzalo_Santos@firstclass1.csubak.edu
- Eduardo Mendieta (Associate
Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, author of Thinking
from the Underside of History),
emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
- Ramon Grosfoguel (Professor of
Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, author of Colonial Subjects),
grosfogu@uclink.berkeley.edu
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11:15-12:45pm
Concurrent Sessions
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Panel A1 |
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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Moderator: Carol Rank |
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Toleration, Identity, and Reconciliation |
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Interpersonal and Political Perspectives on Forgiveness and
Reconciliation |
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Globalization and Truth Commissions |
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The
Globalization of Mercy: the Role of Forgiveness and Apologies in
International Relations |
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Panel
A2 |
Directions for the Study of Peace
and Justice |
Moderator: Kathy Nasstrom
nasstromk@usfca.edu
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Organizing Peace Studies at the Statewide Level: A Brief History
of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies |
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The
Ivory Tower and Globalization: How our Campuses Can Contribute
to Peace, Justice and Human Rights |
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Human
Rights in the College Classroom |
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Human
Rights Education: the Moving Image |
- Rachel May, University of
Washington
rmay@u.washington.edu
- Glenda Pearson, Human Rights Librarian, UW Libraries
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Panel
A3 |
Social Justice in a Research
Based Psychology Curriculum |
Moderator: Maureen O¹Sullivan,
Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco |
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Compassion research in the
undergraduate curriculum |
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Who will help Grandma? |
- Matthew Raichart, University
of San Francisco BA, 2004
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Bridging the generation gap in the
classroom |
- Lisa Wagner, Associate
Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco
wagnerl@usfca.edu
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Who is responsible for stopping
domestic violence? |
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Panel
A4 |
Resisting War, Resisting
Racism: Where and How They Meet |
Moderator: Jim Haber, War
Resisters League West,
wrlwest@riseup.net
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- Mandy Carter is Director of
Southerners on New Ground, and has been a grassroots
organizer for civil and human rights for over thrity years
- Elizabeth Betita Martinez,
Author of 500 Years of Chicano History, and De Colores Means
All of Us
- Matt Meyer, PJSA Co-Chair and
co-author of Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights
on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation
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Panel
A5 |
The Case for Prison Abolition |
Organized by: The National Staff of
Critical Resistance |
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Critical Resistance's mission
is to abolish the prison industrial complex by building safe and
whole communities that rely on alternatives to prisons and
punishment.
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- Rose Braz, CR¹s Director, is a
criminal defense attorney
rose@criticalresistance.org
- Sitara Nieves, local Bay Area
Organizer for Critical Resistance
- Rachel Herzing is CR¹s
National Field Organizer
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Panel
A6 |
Gendering Perspectives in Education
and Legislation |
Moderator: Cecilia Santos santos@usfca.edu |
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Feminism
and Militarism: The Challenges of Globalizing Pedagogies for
Peace |
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International Criminal Court: Introducing Gender Perspective in
International Legislation |
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Baring Witness and Other Daring
Acts: Women's Nonviolent Direct Action for Peace (slide
presentation and discussion) |
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Panel A7 |
Physical and Structural
Violence |
Moderator: Susana Kaiser
kaisers@usfca.edu
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Public Memory and Political
Violence: The Echoes of September 11 |
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The Paradox of Repression |
- Lester R. Kurtz, Professor of
Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
- Lee A. Smithey, Assistant
Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College
Lsmithe1@swarthmore.edu
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The Fire
This Time: A Denial of Violence in Development Theory |
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Panel
A8 |
Paths to Peace |
Moderator: Sudarshan Kapoor,
California State University, Fresno |
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Toward a
Nonviolent International Police Force |
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Municipal Peace Identity: the Case of Coventry, England |
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Interfaith Dialogue as a route to peace |
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Universal Values for a Better World? |
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Panel
A9 |
Issues for Peace Education |
Moderator: Tom Cavanaugh, University
of San Francisco |
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Applying the Theory of
Dehumanization in Education |
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Contra Huntington: The Importance of
Bilingual Education |
- Rachele Lawton, Community
College of Baltimore County
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Friday Lunch 12:45 -
2:00pm |
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2:00
- 3:30pm Concurrent Sessions |
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Panel B1 |
Re-writing Empire |
Moderator: John Gershman, Ph.D.,
Co-Director, Foreign Policy in Focus and Clinical Assistant
Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate
School of Public Service |
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Reflecting Empire: The Lens of the
Philippine-American War |
- Jorge Emmanuel, PhD,
President, The Environmental & Engineering Research Group
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Beyond Benevolent Assimilation: The
Emperor's New Clothes |
- John Gershman, Robert F.
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Co-Director of
Foreign Policy in Focus
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Discussion |
- Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Professor of Theology and Culture, New York
Theological Seminary
ruiz35@comcast.net
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Panel B2 |
Studying/Serving Abroad |
Moderator: Margaret Groarke,
Manhattan College |
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Development of a Peace Personality:
Studying Abroad as precursor or successor |
- Christine Hansvick, Pacific
Lutheran University
Hansvick@plu.edu
- Ashley Harron, University of
Washington
- Ryan Zimmerman, Pacific
Lutheran University
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To Heaven with Better Intentions: An
Ongoing Reappraisal of Service Immersion Programs |
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Panel B3 |
Transnational Women’s
Organizing for Peace and Genuine Security |
Moderator: Michiko Hase,
University of Colorado, Boulder
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- Don Mee Choi, East
Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism
- Yoko Fukumura, UC Santa Cruz
- Gwyn Kirk, Mills College
gwyn@igc.org
- Martha Matsuoka, UCLA
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Panel
B4 |
Teaching about Race and Racism |
Moderator: Ronald Sundstrom
rrsundstrom@usfca.edu
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When Race Breaks Out: Promoting
Conversations about Race and Racism |
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Teaching White Suburbanite Students
about race relations |
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Panel B5 |
The Impact of the
International Community on Human Rights and Security |
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International Human Rights
Protection in Situations of Conflict and Post Conflict: A Case
Study of Angola |
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Globalization and Security: Turkey’s
relations with the European Union |
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Reparations and Debt Cancellation
for the Impoverished African Diaspora |
- Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at,
American Friends Service Committee
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International Human Rights
Accompaniment in a Colombian War Zone |
- Sarah Weintraub, Fellowship of
Reconciliation
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Panel B6 |
Prisoners, Human Rights and the Rule of Law |
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Enemy Combatants and Guantanamo: The Rule of Law and the Law of War
Post 9/11 |
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Internment and the Lawless Case in Ireland, 1957-62 |
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Political prisoners and torture: from Attica to Guantanamo to Abu
Graib |
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Panel B7 |
Social Norms and Outsider
Cultures |
Moderator: Marco Jacquemet
mjacquemet@usfca.edu
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Throwaway Subcultures: Transnational
Gangs and Migrant Youth |
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Diversity in the Classroom: the
headscarf controversy in European Schools |
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Living Mindfully Inside the Matrix:
A Social Analysis of Systemic Violence Embedded in U.S. Culture |
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Panel
B8 |
Political Resistance &
Nonviolent Movements |
Moderator: Cris Toffolo, University
of St. Thomas |
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Incorporating International Law into
Domestic Social Movements |
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From Techniques to Repertoires:
Studying Nonviolent Action in World Politics |
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Politics of Resistance to
Globalization in Latin America |
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Panel B9
Roundtable: |
Community-Based Peace Centers:
Common Goals but different Models, or common models but
different goals? |
Discussion Leaders: Cynthia and Buff
Whitman-Bradley, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition |
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Panel
B10 |
The Crisis in Palestine |
Organized by Mark Lance
Lancem@georgetown.edu
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Militarization, Globalization and
the Greater Middle East Initiative |
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- Mitchell Plitnick, Director of
Education and Policy, Jewish Voice for Peace
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3:45 - 5:45 pm
Plenary Session B |
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Globalization and Peace
Studies through African Eyes
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Co-moderators:
Heather Hoag, chair of the USF African Studies Department
Matt Meyer, PJSA Co-Chair and co-author of Guns and
Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed
Struggle and Liberation |
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- Horace G. Campbell, Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse
University; acclaimed author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe
- Paulos Tesfagiougis, Director of Justice Africa; former chief
researcher for the Constititional Commission of Eritrea; recipient
of the 2003 Rafto Prize for Human Rights
- Elavie Ndura, Assistant Professor of Mulicultural Education, Center
for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies, University of Nevada at
Reno; former high school teacher
- Amowi Sutherland Phillips, Professor of African Studies, Whitworth
College; Director of the Mmofra Foundation of Ghana
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6:30 pm PJSA Awards dinner
* Reservations
for banquet need to be made by October 10th. |
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Saturday
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9:00 - 11:00 am
Plenary Session C |
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Globalization and Nonviolence
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Moderator: Michael Nagler, author of “The Search for a Nonviolent
Future.” |
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- Mandy Carter is Director of Southerners on New Ground, and has been
a grassroots
organizer for civil and human rights for over thrity years. A former
staff person
for the War Resisters League, the Human Rights Campaign, and the
National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, Carter is a member
of the Women of Color and Allies Summit Speakers Bureau of the
National Organization for Women.
- Manfred Steger, author of “Judging Nonviolence: The Dispute Between
Realists and Idealists.” And “Globalization: A Very Short
Introduction”
- Rachel MacNair, author of “The Psychology of Peace.”
- Mubarak Awad, founder and
Director of Nonviolence International, and founder and
Director-in-exile of the Palestinian Center for the Study of
Nonviolence in Jerusalem. Director of the National Youth
Advocate Program.
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11:15 - 12:45pm Concurrent sessions |
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Panel C1
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December 31, 2004: The end of the United Nations Decade of
Indigenous Peoples. What’s Next?
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Organizer: Mariana Leal Ferreira |
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The History of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations |
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, California State University at Hayward
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Human Rights Violations in the Global Mining Economy |
- Manuel Pino, Scottsdale Community College
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Ethnocide: the historic origins of racist discriminatory US policies
and practices since colonial times |
- Alberto Saldomando, International Indian Treaty Council
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The Working Group on Indigenous Peoples |
- Antonio Gonzales, International Indian Treaty Council
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Environmental Justice and the Politics of Erasure in California: The
challenges of Territory, Property, and the Restoration of Native
Lands |
- Melissa K. Nelson, San Francisco State University
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The Color Red: Fighting with Flowers and Fruits in Xavante
Territory, Central Brazil |
- Mariana L. Ferreira, San Francisco State University
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Panel
C2
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Some Critical Themes in Peace Studies |
Moderator:
Nancy Hanawi |
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A Kinder Gentler History: Re-evaluating Historical Education |
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Got Gender? Why and How should gender be included in peace studies
and/or conflict resolution studies? |
- Nancy Hanawi, co-chair of PJSA Board
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On the Relationship between Peace Education and Environmental
Education |
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Panel
C3 |
Peacebuilding
Amidst Diversity |
Moderator: Dean Johnson, Goshen
College |
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Multiculturalism and Diversity: Overcoming Conflicts between Rights |
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Role of Women in Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Efforts:
Afghanistan |
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Panel
C4
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Re-visioning Solidarity in the
21st Century |
Moderator/Discussant: John Gershman,
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Co-Director,
Foreign Policy in Focus |
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Re-visioning Solidarity in the 21st
Century |
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All that is Solid Melts into Air:
Solidarity Revisited |
- Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Theology
and Culture, New York Theological Seminary
ruiz35@comcast.net
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Discussion |
- Christine Leano, Ayal
Foundation
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Panel C5 |
Language, Literature and Violence |
Moderator: Pedro Lange-Churion |
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“We wish to Inform you . . .”
Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday in the
Pool in Kigali |
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What Poetry Can Tell Us About the Cultures of Violence and
Nonviolence |
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Holy Words, Holy War: The Rhetoric of Super-Patriotism
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Panel
C6 |
Prisons: The Infrastructure of Globalization |
Moderator, Jeff Paris, University of San
Francisco |
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- Jeffrey Paris, University of
San Francisco paris@usfca.edu
- Ryan Byars, San Francisco State University
- Burton-Rose, co-editor of
Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, and
The Celling of America
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Panel C7
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Turning Coursework into
Community Service: Four Case Studies of Social Justice in Higher
Education |
Moderator: Shawny Anderson, St.
Mary’s College, California |
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- Alejandro Mercado, student,
St. Mary’s College, California
- Chantal Jenkins, student, St.
Mary’s College, California
- Lizette Ortiz, student, St.
Mary’s College, California
- Suzie Swift, student, St.
Mary’s College, California
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Panel
C8 |
Models for and From Conflict
Resolution |
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A Stage Model of Cooptation and the Community Mediation Movement |
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Conflict Resolution, Peace and Peace Studies |
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Panel C9 |
Psychology & Peace |
Moderator, Joanie Connors, PJSA Board member
jconnors@highstream.net |
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Psychology within and Against Corporate Globalization |
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Understanding Peace Through Systems Theory |
- Joanie Connors jconnors@highstream.net
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Securing Peace Among ‘Traumatized’
Children: Critical Reflections on Psychological Interventions in
Post-Conflict Situations |
- Alison Howell, York
University, Canada
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Panel C10 |
Torture, Pornography and the Reactions of the American
Public |
Moderator: Jacqueline Taylor
jtaylor2@usfca.edu
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The Pornography of War |
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Torture, or 'Good Old American Pornography'? |
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Vicissitudes of Cruelty |
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Saturday Lunch
12:45 – 2:00
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2:00 – 3:30 Concurrent sessions |
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Panel
D1 |
Student Roundtable: Activists
Against Apathy
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Moderator:
Jeff Paris, USF, paris@usfca.edu
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- Bridget Delgado, USF
- Megan Owens, USF
- Zackaria Gaines, USF
- Jake Chevedden, USF
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Panel
D2 |
Anarchism and Globalization from Below |
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Panel D3 |
Peacebuilding Initiatives |
Moderator: Roberto Varea
varea@usfca.edu |
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Transforming Education for Peace: Implications of Change for
Southern Sudan |
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Peacebuilding through Election Monitoring in Unstable Democracies:
Observations from Venezuela |
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An Integrated Paradigm for Conflict Interventions: Theory, research
and Practice |
- Kathryn Mazaika, Eleftherios Michael, and Janice McRae, George Mason
University kmazaika@comcast.edu
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Bridging Borders: Young People Building Peace in Divided Societies |
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Panel D4 |
The Case for Prison Abolition |
Convened by the national staff of
Critical Resistance |
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Panel D5 |
No Title |
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Human Rights as the Foundation for International Justice and Peace |
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Positive and Negative Peace Reconsidered |
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Peace Media and Message Development |
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Panel D6
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No Title |
Moderator: Brian Weiner
weinerb@usfca.edu |
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Globalization, Militarism and Empire: Choosing Republic over empire |
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Human Rights Issues and American Global Policies |
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The Bush Doctrine: Its Origins, History, and Iraq War
Consequences: A Dangerous Policy for an Interdependent World |
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Panel
D7 |
Innovative K-12 Educational projects |
Moderator: Leah C. Wells, National Campaign on Peace Education,
leah@peaceed.org
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Children
Without Borders: A Joint Magazine/Majjalah published by the
Students of Park Day School in Oakland, California and The
Friends School in Ramallah, Palestine |
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Youth
Empowerment School |
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Panel D8 |
Globalization, Culture and Identity |
Moderator: Chris Kamrath
kamrath@usfca.edu |
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Rethinking Global Citizenship |
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Changing Landscapes: Intercultural Challenges of Globalization |
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Human rights, or a human face on the globalization of structures of
violence? |
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Panel D9 |
Resistance to Globalism and Militarism in the United
States |
Moderator: Dorothy Kidd
dorothykiddd@usfca.edu
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Dismantling the Empire: U.S. Citizens in the Struggle for Global
Justice |
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Creating Resistance to Globalism Within the Belly of the Beast |
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Stop the Merchants of Death: A Campaign Presentation |
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3:45 - 5:15 pm
Plenary Speaker |
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Jonathan Schell
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Moderator: Jennifer Turpin, Dean, USF. |
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- Jonathan Schell, The Nation's peace and disarmament correspondent,
is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, and most
recently the author of “The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence,
and the Will of the People.”
- Respondent: Barry Gan
- Respondent: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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5:30 - 6:30pm Peace and Justice Studies Association membership meeting |
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*
Evening activities following meeting to be announced. |
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Sunday
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10:00 - 11:30am
Panels |
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Panel E1 |
Initiating a Peace Studies Program: Prospects, Hurdles, Successes |
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Speakers |
- Chris Hansvick, Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
hansvick@plu.edu
- Pamela Spoto, Shasta Community College (CA)
- Jeanette Ben Farhat, Santa Rosa Junior College (CA)
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Panel E2 |
Travel as a Path to Peace,
Justice and Education |
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Speakers |
- Ed Hasbrouck, author, the Practical Nomad books
edward@hasbrouck.org
- Malia Everette de la Campa, Global Exchange Reality Tours
- Pat Tierney, San Francisco State University
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10:00 - 1:00pm
Workshop Seminars |
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E3 |
Global Justice Game Simulation |
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This global justice game simulation is intended as a tool for the
global justice movement to use in training activists and for
critical pedagogy in teaching undergraduate courses on globalization
issues. My intention is to make the game materials available to
users through a CD or Website. |
- Bill Gamson, Boston College
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E4 |
The state of Community
Mediation: An Exploration of Current and Future Trends |
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- Shar Etebar, East Bay Community Mediation, Moderator
shar@ebcm.org
- Brenda Gaspar, Conflict Resolution Panels (Contra Costa County, CA)
- Jennifer Bullock, Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center
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E5 |
Best Practices in Peace
Education |
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Best Proven Ideas: Teaching peace,
K-12 |
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Youth Transforming Conflict: an online training course |
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Teaching Global Social Transformation: Approaches to Curriculum
Design |
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Radical Agendas for High School
Students: Student-Revised Media Education. |
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National Campaign on Peace Education: Networking and Resources
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E6 |
Current research on peace,
justice and globalization in Africa |
Moderator: Matt Meyer, PJSA Co-Chair and
co-author of Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights
on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation |
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- Joseph Seberenzi, Former Speaker, National Assembly of Rwanda
Doctoral candidate in Peace Studies
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- Bill Sutherland, Pan-African Elder, Bill Sutherland Institute
(invited)
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- Elavie Ndura, Assistant Professor of Mulicultural Education, Center
for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies, University of Nevada at
Reno; former high school teacher
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How South Africa is creating its own
form of globalization |
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Exploring Indigenous Mechanisms for Conflicts Settlement |
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The Role of Peace and Conflict Studies in and Era of Global Violence
and Militarism |
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Women, Resource Control Struggles and Conflict Management in Nigeria |
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E7 |
Dialogue to Reconciliation
Using Nonviolent Communication |
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Learn the tools of nonviolent communication for peaceful resolution
to conflict. This workshop will include role-plays and working with
participants’ real life situations.
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- Miki Kashtan, BayNVC and Center for Nonviolent Communications
kit@baynvc.org
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E8 |
Restoring Peace and Human
Rights: Current Research on Conflicts in Asia/Pacific |
- Moderator: To be Announced
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Third Party Interventions and their Implications for Intra State
Conflict: Sri lanka |
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Peace Initiatives in South Asia: the Issue of Kashmir |
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Toward a New Framework for Peace in Mindanao |
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Conflict in Gujarat: Restoring Peace and Protecting Human Rights |
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Human Rights in the Sri Lankan Peace Process: The Dilemmas of
International Intervention |
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Human Rights in the Kashmir conflict |
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