March 30-31, 2007
Notre Dame Student Peace Conference

Schedule of Events

Conference Registration
(Registration will close at 5:00PM Eastern Standard Time on Friday, March 23, 2007. After this time, interested students who missed the deadline can email peacecon@nd.edu to attend the conference, but meal registration will no longer be available. )

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Dear Friends,
The University of Notre Dame's Annual Student Peace Conference will take place on March 30 and 31, 2007. The free conference is sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and is planned and directed by undergraduate peace studies students of the University. Every year the conference unites undergraduate and graduate students from universities and colleges across the United States and abroad with a spirit of peace, a desire to see a change in the world, and commitment to a rigorous, multi-disciplinary academic program focused on building international peace.

This year, the conference is entitled Unmask the Unknown: Understanding the Other, Discovering Ourselves. This year's conference will focus on the exploration of the "other" in the world around us, whether that unknown is distanced from us by national, cultural, or more local and personal boundaries.

The conference will feature, among many events, an African dinner, a traditional Kenyan storyteller, and various workshops and presentations. Jill Sternberg, a former Kroc M.A. student, will give our keynote address. Sternberg works internationally as a consultant in diversity, gender, and nonviolent conflict transformation training, specializing in training for nonviolent action in situations of war or protracted violence. She has facilitated training across North America, throughout Europe, in Eastern Africa and Asia, with an occasional assignment in Latin America. She has been designing and facilitating workshops for 15 years.

We wish to invite all persons who have an interest in peace issues regardless of disciplines and perspectives to this FREE conference.

Please notice that if you would like to partake in the meals we ask that your register no later than March 23rd. If you have any further questions please contact us at peacecon@nd.edu.

Many thanks,
Katie Mounts and Claire McArdle, Conference Co-Chairs

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Schedule of Events

Friday, March 30
3:00-5:00 p.m.	Registration-Great Hall
5:00-5:15 p.m.	Opening Remarks
5:15-6:30 p.m.	Dinner-Great Hall
6:30-7:30 p.m.	Keynote Address-Auditorium
7:30-8:00 p.m.	Maurice Ouma Amollo-Auditorium
8:00-8:30 p.m.	Irish Dance Team - Auditorium
10:00 p.m.	SubMovie: Blood Diamond
Saturday, March 31
8:15-9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Nonviolent Action-C102
	Dan Huebner- How to Fight without Fighting: Non-Violent Methods for Combating Terrorism
	Patricia Keefe, OSF, Outreach Coordinator, Nonviolent Peaceforce - Nonviolent Peaceforce:  Peace in Action
	Kristina Seslija- Ethnic Conflict, Resolution, and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Peace and Justice-Auditorium
	Jason Krueger- International Law and the Recent Arrival of Concerned Humanitarianism
	Eitan Sussman - Transitional Justice: Analysis and Implications
	Patrick Corrigan - Dilemmas of the International Criminal Court in Northern Uganda.
	Beyond the Headlines-C103
	Cindy Bangert and Dan Brencic – Who Is Missing From the Table?
	Kent Yoder – Immigration: Seeing One’s Self In the Face of the Other
	Madeline Philbin – Catholic Relief Services
10:00-10:15 a.m.	Break
10:15-11:00 a.m.	Energy Presentation-Auditorium
	Felipe Witchger- Unmasking Energy for Peace
	Psychology-C102
	Danilo Mandic— Myths and Bombs:  War, State Popularity, and the Collapse of National Mythology
	Brother Patrick Cousins— Psychic Numbing, Dehumanization, and the Spiral of Violence
	Human Rights-C103
	Jesse Kirkpatrick- The Importance of Nonderogability: Human Rights in Occupied Palestine
	Carliene Quist— Invisible Privilege, Invisible Men: Exploring Gender Violence Prevention in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in terms of Men and Transformation of Victimizers
11:00-11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15-12:15 a.m.	North Korea-Auditorium
	Soon Kyu Choi, Becky Bae, Julie Kim, Jane Lee, Sang Lee, Albert Lee, Rem Ogaki, Tony So, Anthony Suh – Human Rights in North Korea
	Economics-C102
	Gary Barnabo- Making Globalization Global: The Contribution of Microfinance to Poverty Reduction
	Andy Astuno— Has Investment Actually Been Promoted Through the HIPC (Highly Indebted Poor Country) Initiative? ‘No’
	Religion-C103
	Jessie Tannenbaum- “Reconciliation-Based Alternatives to Criminal Prosecution for Mass Violations of Human Rights” - The Application of Christian/Catholic Teachings in situations where human rights violations have occurred
	David Ragland— Uncovering Radical Education Through Perpetual Peace
12:15-1:30 p.m.	Lunch-Great Hall
1:30-2:30 p.m.	Are you my other?  A dialogue-based workshop-C103
	Katie Mansfield, Claire Feeney, Hisham Soliman, Jamal Afridi – Drawing on Islamic and other ethical frameworks, we will play games to explore and question personal and global identities, challenging stereotypes about Islam and the West.
	Health-Auditorium
	Nick Houpt- A Healthy Distribution: Applying Distributive Justice Theories to Health Care Dynamics
	Regina Rust and Mary Shebeck— Fruition of Government vs. NGO Efforts in the Fight against HIV/AIDS: Actual and Perceived Situations in El Salvador and Senegal
	Alice Rothchild- Broken Promise, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience
	Refugees-C102
	Valerie Kirkpatrick – Long Term Refugees and The Human Rights Framework
	Nishita Trisal- Those Who Remain: The Survival and Continued Struggle of the Kashmiri Pandit ‘Non-Migrants’
2:30-2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45-3:45 p.m.	Governance in the Americas-C103
	Kathryn Hessler – Indiana Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace
	Ana Karim – U.S. Policy on Travel to Cuba
	Anthony Talarico – The Brazilian National Youth Council as an Innovative Institution
	Africa-Auditorium
	Laura Vilim— Resource Exploitation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
	Anna Boiko-Weyrauch— Kugusuru Iwanyu (Visit Your Home): An Exploration of Youth, Justice, and Civil Society in Reconciliation in Rwanda
	Sara Snider- The Opinions of Ugandan Youth in Tertiary Institutions Regarding the LRA Conflict
	Art, Literature and Philosophy-C102
	Jessica Morton— A Migrating narrative: Dual Conceptions of the “Other” in Season of Migration to the North
	Sarah Miller- Poetry from Northern Ireland during the Troubles
	Christine Donovan – Take Ten Comic Book
3:45-4:15 p.m.	Closing remarks-Auditorium

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Bio of Jill Sternberg

Jill Sternberg works internationally as a consultant in diversity, gender, and nonviolent conflict transformation training, specializing in training for nonviolent action in situations of war or protracted violence. She has facilitated training across North America, throughout Europe, in Eastern Africa and Asia, with an occasional assignment in Latin America. She has been designing and facilitating workshops for 15 years.

Jill has extensive experience in organizing educational and training programs at the local, national and international levels. In Westchester County, New York, she coordinated “Embracing Diversity and Ending Racism,” a dialogue initiative that brought hundreds of people together to discuss race relations. From August 2001 until April 2004, she lived in East Timor, working with Nobel Peace Laureate José Ramos-Horta to develop the Peace and Democracy Foundation, a peace center focused on conflict transformation. Upon her return to the U.S., she worked with the Westchester Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute for Nonviolence developing a local peace center in Westchester County in New York. In 2006, she represented the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the United Nations in New York.

Jill’s background is well-rounded, both academically and experientially, blending theory and practice with insights gained from working and studying with people across the globe. She has an MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame (‘90). As coordinator of the Nonviolence Education and Training Program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (‘92-‘95), Jill designed and collaborated on training programs in conflict resolution and nonviolent action around the world. For 10 years she was a lead facilitator and designer of an international workshop for grassroots activists from war zones, bringing them together with people intending to undertake fieldwork. She is a member of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute’s board of directors, coordinating their Nonviolence Training Fund.

Jill’s involvement in nonviolent intervention in war situations comes from a desire to demonstrate that there are concrete positive ways we can address the causes of war that also support the local actors working for peace. She was involved in the formation of the Balkan Peace Team, a coalition peace team effort in the Balkans (including Kosov@). Jill participated in the Friends Peace Team Project Africa Great Lakes Initiative delegation to East Africa in January 1999, investigating Quaker peacemaking potential there and support that Quakers outside the area can lend. And she was a United Nations accredited observer for the August 30, 1999 vote for independence in East Timor. She is currently working with the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network as coordinator of their Solidarity Observer Mission for East Timor (SOMET) for that country's first national elections since independence.

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