2010 SCHEDULE OVERVIEW (subject to change)
There are three streams running parallel to each other in this program. The Peace Out! Youth Summit will be based out of the University of Winnipeg's Bulman Centre throughout the weekend with breakout sessions occurring around campus. The schedule for the Youth Summit can be accessed online. Participants in the Youth Summit will be joining the conference for the opening ceremony at TBH, select plenary sessions, and the awards ceremony on Saturday evening.
During the four concurrent sessions, conference participants will choose from a selection of papers and presentations. For those who are interested in hands-on workshops, there will be interspersed throughout the program opportunities to engage with educators and practitioners in a variety of skills building experiences focusing on conflict resolution, restorative justice, and peacebuilding. These may be especially attractive to educators and NGO workers at the conference as part of their professional development programs. For the duration of the conference, we invite you to also tour the 1000 PeaceWomen exhibit and art displays for peace and justice which will be housed in Gallery 1C03 (UW).
{Legend: CMU = Canadian Mennonite University; GC = Global College; MSC = Menno Simons College; UW = University of Winnipeg; TBH = Thunderbird House; CH = Convocation Hall (UW); SC = Shaftsbury Campus (CMU); WH = Wesley Hall (UW); MH = Manitoba Hall (UW); EG = Eckhardt-Gramatte Lecture Hall (UW); GH = Great Hall (CMU); UWC = UW Collegiate.}
Thursday, September 30
9:00a – 4:00p PJSA Board Meeting (SC - CMU)5:30p Conference Registration Opens (CH - UW)
Friday, October 1
Coffee Available9:00a – 10:15a Opening Ceremonies (TBH)
10:30a – 11:45a Opening Plenary (TBH)
NOTE: You will be asked to remove your shoes at Thunderbird House or use shoe coverings provided at the door.
Opening Plenary11:45 – 1:00 LUNCH
You will be walking from TBH to Convocation Hall, a 30-minute walk for those spry, a 45-minute walk for most of us. Vans will be available for those who need one. Lunch spots along the route will be clearly indicated with a map created by MSC volunteers who know the scene well. Cafeterias at UW may provide a faster option to get you back to Convocation Hall in time for the next plenary.1:00p – 2:15p Plenary Session (CH)
2:30p – 3:45p Concurrent Sessions and Practitioner Workshops (MH + UWC)
Dr. Nolan Reilly – Film: Blood Saturday: 1919 Winnipeg General Strike4:00p – 5:15p Concurrent Sessions and Practitioner Workshops (MH + UWC)
Equality, Marriage, and Ethics
Workshop: Dr. Laura Finley
Workshop: Lilian E. Vargas & Stephanie Stobbe
Abortion & "Illegitimate" Pregnancies
Undergraduate Identities
Workshop: Dr. Gordon Fellman
Peace & Educational Environments
Margaret Groarke – Peace and Conflict Programs
Identity Groups and Conflicts
Peacebuilding, Gender, & Tranformation
Gandhi & the Constructive Programme
Epistemologies of Peace
Film: Zarmina; Every War Has Two Losers5:15p – 7:00p SUPPER at local spots
Workshop: David J. Smith
Workshop: David J Falk
Workshop: James Loewen
Womens' Peace Missions
Roundtable: Kelly Dowdell & Dr. Maureen G Wilson
University of Manitoba Instructors
Canadian Department of Peace Initiative (CDPI)
Workshop: Betty Reardon, Tony Jenkins, & Bryan Wright
Media, Journalism, & Nonviolence
Relational Conflict Transformation
Studies in Islam
Economics and Peace
Mapping the Past
Reconciliation and Forgiveness
FRIDAY EVENING ENTERTAINMENT: FemFest 2010
We are incredibly pleased and fortunate to be partnering with FemFest 2010, a nationally recognized theatre festival of plays by women for everyone. With their support, conference attendees will have priority seating for a special presentation of playwright and dub poet d'bi young's highly acclaimed piece exploring identity issues “she”. For more information, and to register, please go HERE.
The PJSA 2010 Youth Summit Peace Out! Dance Party will be happening later in the evening on Friday at the UW Bulman Centre. This celebratory event will feature some of Winnipeg's premiere DJ and live music acts. For those older ones of us who still have any juice left, the Youth Summit coordinators say we're welcome to come mix with the next generation of peace activists as they wind up the first day of the summit in a city known for its Winnipeg Folk Festival and indie music scene -- this is, by the way, the home of The Guess Who, Neil Young, The Weakerthans, and The Waking Eyes, just to name a few.
Saturday, October 2
Coffee Available8:15a – 9:00a PJSA Membership Meeting
9:15a – 10:30a Plenary Session (CH)
10:45a – 12:00p Concurrent Sessions and Practitioner Workshops (MH + UWC)
Film: College Hook-up Culture12:00p - 1:15p LUNCH
Workshop: George Lakey
Workshop: Sr. Kathleen Kanet
Workshop: Dr. Rachel Goldberg
Workshop: Dr. Joanie Connors
Nonviolence in Practice
Canadian Department of Peace Initiative (CDPI)
Workshop: Kindra K Amott
Workshop: Sue Hemphill
Mauro Centre Doctoral Students I
Muslim Women and Peacebuilding
Roundtable: Dr. Kathleen R Venema & Dr. Deborah Schnitzer
Women’s security, empowerment and peacebuilding
Workshop: David C. Dyck
Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education
Liberation and Nonviolence
Borders, Opposition, and Peacekeeping
Womens' Peace Movements
Peace Narratives & Deficit Ideologies
UN Security Council Resolution 1325
Building Bridges Across Cultures
Peace Movements and Mythologies
Women and Peacekeeping
Colonies, Camps. Communities
1:15p – 2:30p Plenary Session (CH)
2:45p – 4:00p Concurrent Sessions and Practitioner Workshops (MH + UWC)
Film: Coexist - How Rwanda Can Transform Us4:15p – 5:30p Concurrent Sessions and Practitioner Workshops (MH + UWC)
Workshop: Janet P. Schmidt
Roundtable: Prof. Floyd W. Rudmin & Dr. Dariush Arai-Ardakani
Interpersonal Peacemaking
Roundtable: Juliet J Lowery
Workshop: Anne-Marie Collette
Workshop: Robert Stewart
PJSA's Student Paper Award Winners: Maya Eichler & Emily Watkins
Workshop: Scott R Amott
Workshop: Sue Hemphill (Pt. 2)
Peace and Ecology
Workshop: Dr. Andreas Schramm & Jennifer Ouellette-Schramm, M.A.
Workshop: Karen Ridd
Gender, Equality, & Liberation
Truth & Reconciliation Commissions
Issues in Peacebuilding
Culture and Symbolic Framing
Militarization, Masculinity, & Violence
Women's Roles & Representations
Womens' Power & Influence for Peace
Mobilizing for Change
Literature and Peace
Workshop: Janet P. Schmidt
Mauro Centre Doctoral Students II
Panel: Teaching Introduction to Peace Studies
Workshop: Robert G Porter
Stephanie van Hook: Developing a Sexual Harassment Policy for PJSA
Code Breaking: The Art of Gender Justice
Restorative Justice & Security
Voices for Peace & Security
Survivors, Security, & Stories
Gender and Peace Activism
Perspectives on Conflict
Labour and Communications
Worldviews and Peace Paradigms
Women and Peacebuilding
Gender-based Violence
Security and Resources
Religious Conflicts and Resolutions
Workshop: Wilma L. Derksen
Workshop: Dr. Mary J Larrabee
Diplomacy & Power
Gender & Peacebuilding in Asia
Nuclear Issues and Northern Security
Peace Education and Moral Education
6:30p – 8:00p PJSA Banquet (GH)
The banquet this year will be catered by one of the top-rated food caterers in Winnipeg and a friend to our peace and justice community. The banquet will be sit-down (not buffet) and be served in CMU’s Great Hall. We only have room for about 80 people. You really won’t want to miss the food served this year. You’ll enjoy award-winning cuisine for an incredibly low price. Your banquet ticket also gains you entrance to the awards ceremony that will happen down the hall in a larger facility.8:00p – 10:00p PJSA Awards Ceremony (Gym – SC)
This year’s award ceremony will be open to all conference attendees, the Youth Summit participants, and the public as well. We will be advertising it widely and expect a large crowd to join us in celebrating those who have distinguished themselves on behalf of peace and justice. This year’s ceremony will include music and spoken word in celebration of our award recipients, which will include the first ever presentation of “The Next Generation Peace Worker Award.” Finger food, desserts, and beverages will be served at the awards ceremony.
Plenary Speakers
The Peace and Justice
Studies Association in collaboration with Canadian Mennonite University’s Menno Simons College and the University of Winnipeg Global College are pleased to announce our distinguished plenary speakers. These remarkable and committed scholar activists will be helping us to focus on our 2010 theme Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace. We look forward to having
you join us to welcome these speakers to Winnipeg – and many more that we will be announcing over the next couple of weeks – and to engage them in conversation about this important and timely theme. While you are here look for
the author’s book table where you will be able to find some of these colleague’s books for sale.
Cynthia Enloe’s career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, and guest professorships
in Japan, Britain and Canada, as well as lecturing in Sweden, Norway, Germany,
Korea, Turkey and at universities around the U.S. Her
books and articles have been translated into Spanish, Turkish, Japanese,
Korean, Swedish, and German. She has written for Ms. Magazine and has
appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. At Clark, Professor Enloe has been selected “Outstanding Teacher” three times
and named University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and
Scholarship. In 2009, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University
of London’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies. Enloe’s
twelve books include Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of
Militarizing Women’s Lives (2004), and Globalization and Militarism:
Feminists Make the Link (2007). Her newest book is Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (forthcoming from University of California Press, spring, 2010). In years past, Enloe’s feminist teaching and research has focused on the
interplay of women’s politics in the national and international arenas, with
special attention to how women’s labor is made cheap in globalized factories
(especially sneaker factories) and how women’s emotional and physical labor has
been used to support governments’ war-waging policies—and how many women
have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national
identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities
have been common threads throughout her studies.
Marilou McPhedran is an international human rights lawyer, who was appointed principal
(dean) of Global College in June 2008, having resigned as the Chief
Commissioner of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission to return to the
University of Winnipeg. Born and raised in Neepawa,
Manitoba, called to the Bar of Ontario, Dr. McPhedran
was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1985 in recognition of her
co-leadership in the successful campaign for stronger equality protections in
the Canadian constitution. She cofounded several internationally recognized
non-profit systemic change organizations, such as LEAF – the Women’s
Legal Education and Action Fund, which has conducted constitutional equality
test cases and interventions for 25 years. She is a pioneer in research and
advocacy to counter human rights violations through systemic reform – in
law, medicine, education and government. She founded the International Women’s
Rights Project, located at the University of Victoria Centre for Global Studies
– based on two of her intergenerational models: “evidence based advocacy”
and “lived rights”. As chief executive officer of a federal center of
excellence, she directed staff and programs including a cyber research network;
she has chaired two public inquiries into the sexual abuse of patients; and she
has co-investigated and co-authored a number of research projects on systemic
reform and human rights, including: the ten country pilot study to assess
impact of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
Against Women (CEDAW). As principal of Global College, she coordinates the
University of Winnipeg contributions to the new joint Masters degree in Peace
and Conflict Studies with University of Manitoba, directs the Institute for
International Women’s Rights and the Global Citizenship Program with high
school affiliates, lectures and conducts research on international human
rights, and has launched a campaign to build the Global Learning Commons. As a
volunteer, she is on the Board of the Winnipeg Women’s Health Clinic and is the
Vice-President of the Canadian International Council - Winnipeg Branch.
Chief Ovide Mercredi is a Cree, a lawyer, a negotiator, an author, a lecturer in Native Studies, and an activist on behalf of First Nations in Canada. He was born into a traditional trapping hunting and fishing lifestyle in Grand Rapids, Manitoba in 1946. He is currently serving as Chief of the Misipawistik First Nation, Grand Chief of the Swampy Cree Tribal Council, and is also National Spokesperson for Treaties 1 through 11. Chief Mercredi is perhaps best known for his deep involvement in constitutional law reform issues, and Aboriginal and Treaty rights negotiations. He acted as a key adviser in First Nations’ opposition to the Meech Lake Accord, and in 1989 was elected Manitoba Vice-Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He was first elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in 1991, and served two terms until 1997. He also led the First Nations negotiations in the Charlottetown Accord. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honours. In 2006 he was invested with the Order of Manitoba; the province’s highest honour. He was nominated for the Gandhi Peace Prize and has received honourary degrees from Bishop’s University, St. Mary’s University, and Lethbridge University. He has published a collection of his speeches in a book entitled In The Rapids – Navigating the Future of First Nations, and has contributed articles to two other recent books. He is also the subject of two Canadian documentary films. Chief Mercredi has spoken at hundreds of venues, from small community gatherings to universities and colleges throughout North America and internationally about his experiences.
Catherine Morris has been a leader in the field of conflict resolution since 1983, both in Canada and internationally. Working in academic, community, nonprofit, public, and private sectors, she has played key roles in numerous organizations and initiatives. Ms. Morris is the founder of Peacemakers Trust, a Canadian non-profit organization for education and research in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. As an adjunct professor, she teaches graduate level courses in conflict resolution, negotiation and international human rights at the University of Victoria where she designed and founded a multidisciplinary graduate program in dispute resolution. An Associate and former Executive Director of the university’s Institute for Dispute Resolution, she worked in several leadership roles from 1992-1998. As well at the University of Victoria, Ms. Morris is an Associate of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI). She also regularly teaches at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand and, in the past, has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and guest lectured at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is presently Faculty Associate for the Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Arthur V. Mauro Centre at the University of Manitoba. Ms. Morris has been involved in design, planning, administration and presentation of workshops for senior public officials, leaders of non-governmental organizations, academics and professionals in several countries including Thailand, Cambodia, Bolivia, and Rwanda. Her research and writing has resulted in publications and papers on mediator ethics and qualifications, conflict and culture, ADR in legal education, the role of religion in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, peacebuilding in Cambodia, human rights education, and reconciliation. Hosted by Peacemakers Trust, her website-based bibliography, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: A Selected Bibliography has been used by tens of thousands of people in more than one hundred countries on all continents. Ms. Morris’ current interests include possibilities for reconciliation and justice after genocide and massive human rights violations. As a practicing lawyer with Lampion Pacific Law Corporation and a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association and the British Columbia Mediator Roster (Civil), she is widely experienced in conflict assessment, mediation, fact-finding and adjudication.
A
member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, Carolyn Nordstrom is an anthropologist at home in lecture hall and
war zone alike. She studies wars, the illegal drug trade, gender relationships,
and war profiteering. Her research has made her an eyewitness and scholar of
worldwide urban and rural battlefields as well as of the shadowy worlds of
diamond, drug, and arms smuggling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing,
she has written dozens of articles, and several books including Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in
the Contemporary World; Shadows of
War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the 21st Century; A
Different Kind of War Story; Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Stories
of Violence and Survival, and The
Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror. “I have studied the ways in
which people gain the necessities to wage war and create peace, and how people
pay for these services,” she once said. “Drugs, precious gems, human labor and
sex are routinely used in international black markets to purchase everything
from guns and computer-based weapons systems to antibiotics and food. The
integrity of my ethnographic research and the safety of those among whom I work
have rested on having to delete basic data, which erases the extra-legal from
public discourse. I want to develop a form of creative non-fiction that
explores the lives of real people working in this complex, extra-legal network
without revealing their locations.”
Sherene Razack is
professor, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching
interests lie in the area of race and gender issues in the law. Her courses
include: ‘Race, Space and Citizenship;’ Race and Knowledge Production’ and
‘Racial Violence and the Law.’ Her most recent book is entitled Casting
Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics
(University of Toronto Press, 2008). She has also published Dark
Threats & White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New
Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2004), an edited
collection Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping A White
Settler Society Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002), Looking
White People in the Eye: Gender, Race, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) and
Betty A.
Reardon is the Founding Director
Emeritus of the International Institute on Peace Education, an annual intensive
residential experience in peace education. Since 1982 the IIPE has been held at
universities and peace education centers in Asia, Europe, Latin America and
Central America. For this work she received a special Honorable Mention Award
from UNESCO in 2001. Among her other initiatives in
the international peace education movement, she initiated and served as the
first Academic Coordinator of the Hague Appeal for Peace Global Campaign for
Peace Education. Having taught as a visiting professor at a number of
universities in the U.S. and abroad, she has 46 years of experience in
international peace education and 33 years in the international movement for
the human rights of women. She has served as a consultant to several UN
agencies and national and international education organizations. Her widely
published work in the theory and development of peace and human rights
education, and in gender and peace issues, recognized in the awarding of the
2008 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Peace Studies from the Peace and
Justice Studies Association, is archived in the Ward M. Canaday
Center for Special Collections at the University of Toledo Libraries. She is
the recipient of the 2009 Sean McBride Peace Prize awarded by the International
Peace Bureau, the oldest of the many nongovernmental peace organizations,
founded in 1891.
Sandra Whitworth is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at York University in
Toronto, Canada. Sandra did her Ph.D. at Carleton University in Political
Science (1991), and her first book, Feminism and
International Relations (Palgrave Macmillan) was published in 1994. That
book was translated into Japanese and was published by Fujiwara Shoten Press in 2000. Her most recent book was published in 2004 (Lynne Rienner) and is entitled Men,
Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. She also adapted
Joshua Goldstein's textbook International Relations for use in Canadian
university and college classrooms. She has written various articles and book
chapters on issues such as gender in Canadian foreign policy and human rights
and was invited (with co-author Dyan Mazurana) to produce the 2002 United Nations
Secretary-General Study Women, Peace and Security. That study won one of
the American Library Association's 'Notable Government Documents Awards' for
2002. Sandra teaches courses at York in Global Politics, Gender and
International Relations, and graduate courses in International Relations
Theory. She is serving currently as the home base editor for International
Feminist Journal of Politics. Sandra is an enthusiastic (though not
particularly skilled) hockey player and thinks the world could be a better
place if everybody played the guitar, read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
and listened to live music whenever they have a chance.
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