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2006 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 5

Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?
Rodriguez Room, Miguel 311

This National Teach-In is a work in progress of a group of individuals organized as the National Guantanamo Teach-In Steering Committee. It is a virtual teach-in simulcast to participating colleges and universities around the country from Seton Hall Law School. Manhattan College is pleased to participate. For more info, see: http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/index3.htm

Session One: Opening Remarks	10:00–10:45
Session Two: Journalists Look Behind the Wire	10:45-12:00
Habeas Interlude: Force Feeding	12:00-12:15
Session Three: First, Do No Harm: Medical Professionals and Guantánamo	2:15-1:30
Habeas Interlude: Insults to Religion	1:30-1:45
Session Four: Matters of Faith: Guantánamo and Religious Communities	1:45-2:45
Habeas Interlude: Suicide	2:45-3:00
Session Five: Concurrent Sessions	3:00-4:15
Habeas Interlude: Military in Civil Society	4:15–4:30
Session Seven: The Military and the Commander in Chief	4:30—5:45
Habeas Interlude: Voices of Guantánamo	5:45-6:00

Closing: Guantánamo and American Foreign Relations 6:00-7:00 p.m.

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7:00 – 9:00 p.m. OPENING PLENARY:
The Role of Religion in Seeking the Common Good
Smith Auditorium

Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, in New York

Ibrahim Malik Abdil-Mu'id Ramey, Director of the Human and Civil Rights Division of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. He was until recently the Coordinator of the Peace and Disarmament Program at the Fellowship of Reconciliation

Dara Silverman, Executive Director, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

CHAIR: Kathleen Kanet, RSHM, Network for Peace Through Dialogue

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FRIDAY, October 6

9-10:30 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS A [Get PDF of Full Session A Schedule]

11 –11:15 Peace Boat -US presentation
Smith Auditorium

11:15 - 1 p.m. Plenary Speaker: Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Politics and Sociology at the City University of New York.
Smith Auditorium

Frances Fox Piven is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center. She is the author of numerous books, including Poor People’s Movements and Why Americans Still Don’t Vote? (with Richard Cloward) and the forthcoming Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America.

1-2:30 p.m. Lunch on your own; in Thomas Hall or off campus

During Lunch:
Peace and Change Editorial Meeting – interested in our Journal, Peace and Change? Come meet with Barry Gan, Co-editor of the Journal and Elavie Ndura, PJSA Board Member responsible for publications. (Bring your lunch)

2:30-4:00 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS B [Get PDF of Full Session B Schedule]

4:00-5:30 p.m. Reception in Honor of the 1000 Peacewomen (nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2005)
Dante’s Den, Thomas Hall

In January 2005, 1000 women (representative of many thousands of such women) from more than 150 countries were nominated all together for the Nobel Peace Prize. They commit themselves worldwide to working for more human security and justice. They rebuild what has been destroyed, they mediate in conflicts between enemies, and they fight poverty. They step in for access to land and clean water, they defend human rights and denounce every sort of child abuse. They create alternative sources of income, they care for HIV patients and take care of their children. They organize vigils and they document the atrocities of war.

They were not awarded the Prize, but they continue their important work for greater human security and peace, and they offer their experience, their example, and their encouragement to those who would work for peace in all parts of the world.

5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own (on campus or off)

7:15 – 9:00 p.m. “Marines Go Home-Henoko, Maehyang-ri, Yausubetsu”
Film and Discussion with Betty Reardon and the Filmmakers from Japan

FUJIMOTO, Yukihisa (Director)
KAGEYAMA, Asako (Producer)
KURIHARA, Ryosuke (Camera crew)
KATO, Reiko (translator/coordinator)

The film is a depiction of the local Okinawan struggle to stop the helicopter base that is contributing to environmental destruction but one more of the many damaging results of the long term effects of US military bases in Okinawa. Betty Reardon, founder of the Peace Education Center at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, will lead a discussion about the Okinawa base and about broader issues of the militarization of society.

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SATURDAY, October 7

8:45 – 10:15 a.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS C [Get PDF of Full Session C Schedule]

10:30 am -12:30 p.m. Plenary: “The Common Good in the Global Context”
Smith Auditorium

M.P.Mathai, is Director of, and a Professor at, the School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He is a member of the National Executive Committee , Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi, and Sarva Seva Sangh, the national coordinating body of the Gandhian organizations in India.
He also serves as President of the Kerala State Unit of Sarvodaya Mandalam( the Gandhian activist organization), and is a founding member of the National Alliance of Peoples Movements. He is the author of Mahatma Gandhi’s World View (Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi) and editor of Meditations on Gandhi (Concept, New Delhi), and other books in his native tongue, Malayalam, and scholarly articles.

Italian feminist scholar Silvia Federici is retired professor of International Studies and Political Philosophy at Hofstra University. Author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Autonomedia, 2004), Federici is also a co-founder of the Radical Philosophy Association’s Anti-Death Penalty Project. Federici is a founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, which just published Asinamali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Africa World Press, 2006). She is editor of Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its ‘Others’, and author of numerous published works.

Ousseina Alidou, Director of the Program in African Languages and Literature at Rutgers University, is co editor of the just-published Post Conflict Reconstruction in Africa (Africa World Press, 2006). A Board member of the Committee for Academic Freedom is Africa, Dr. Alidou is also author of Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Post-Colonial Niger. Alidou is co-editor, along with Federici, of A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (Africa World Press, 2000).

Gregoria Flores is General Coordinator of OFRANEH, the Honduran Fraternal Black Organization, representing the indigenous Garifuna people. A leader of nonviolent resistance for human rights, environmentalism, dignity and against corporate globalization, Flores has been a target of attack, as the Garifuna have intensified their struggle against the World Bank-sponsored Honduran Lands Administration Program, a process which is systemically destroying and plundering traditionally protected ancestral lands. Flores and OFRANEH are partners of the international peace and justice association Rights Action.

12:30-1:45 p.m. Lunch

During Lunch:
Pax Christi Peace Studies Committee Gathering. Everyone is invited to an informal discussion of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi and its Peace Studies Committee.
Bring your lunch -- refreshments will be served
Cornerstone, Miguel 209

Navigating the United States Institute for Peace Grants Process. David Smith, of USIP, will briefly review the grants process and answer questions. Bring your lunch.
Location will be announced

1:45-3:15 p.m. CONCURRENT SESSIONS D [Get PDF of Full Session D Schedule]

3:30-5:30 p.m. Plenary “Education for the Common Good”
Smith Auditorium

This panel will highlight the importance of education - and the educational process - in working toward the common good.

Patricia Mische, Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and World Law, Antioch College;
Visiting Professor, School of International Service, American University; Co-founder and current President, Global Education Associates (you can see her full bio here:
http://www.tc.edu/peaceed/spiritethic/mische.htm)

Tony Jenkins and Janet Gerson, Co-Directors, Peace Education Center, Teachers College

Elton Skendaj was the National Project Coordinator for the joint project between UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and Hague Appeal for Peace on "Peace and Disarmament Education to Disarm Children and Youth". He was also the National Focal Point for the Balkan Conference on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding leading to the international conference at the United Nations on "The Role of Civil Society in the Prevention of Armed Conflict". He is now pursuing a PhD in Government at
Cornell University.

Chair: Elavie Ndura, Associate Professor of Education, George Mason University

5:30-7:00 p.m. Membership Meeting
Smith Auditorium

7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Banquet Dinner
Thomas Hall

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SUNDAY, October 8

10:00-11:30 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS E [Get PDF of Full Session E Schedule]

11:30 am -12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30-4 p.m. Immersion Experiences
Several guided tours of sites of interest to peace studies people may be arranged, with an opportunity for discussion. If you are interested in participating in one of these, please let the Registration Desk know as soon as possible.

• Explore the concept of the Common Good in the Middle Ages by touring the Cloisters with Manhattan College Professor Thomas Ferguson.
• Information on other tours may be available at the Registration Desk.

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