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Be the Change
2002 Student Peace Conference

Schedule  
March 22 (Friday)
9am - 5:00 p.m.
Registration
Great Hall, Hesburgh Center
7:00 p.m.
Jordan Auditorium,
College of Business Administration

Keynote Address: Colman McCarthy
An editorial page reporter for the Washington Post, McCarthy teaches at Georgetown University and is the founder of the Center for Teaching Peace, a nonprofit organization that promotes education in nonviolence and peacemaking.

 

March 23 (Saturday)
9am - Noon
Registration
Great Hall, Hesburgh Center

9:30-10:30 a.m.
AUDITORIUM

Security Issues for Peace
Reducing the Threat: De-Alerting Nuclear Weapons
Lauren Berrigan (Notre Dame)
National Missile Defense and the Future of Arms Control
Megan Renner (Notre Dame)
Framing Environmental Security
Derek Vollmer (Notre Dame)
9:30-10:30 a.m.
ROOM C-103
Peace Education Initiatives
Fostering Peace and Cultural Understanding through Service Education: Winter Term In-Service at DePauw University
Kara Cebulko (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Peace Camp: Teaching Non-Violent Conflict Resolution
and the Pledge of Non-Violence

Teresa Hansen (Notre Dame)
Teaching Teachers About and For Peace
Laura Finley (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI)
9:30-10:30 a.m.
ROOM C-104/105

Religious Foundations for Peace
The Heart
Nicholas Vakkur (Notre Dame)
Discussing Religion
Brian Casas (Notre Dame)
Meeting for Peace in Assisi: The Vatican's Interreligious Prayer
and Dialogue for Peace 1/24/02

Kate Diaz (Notre Dame)
Reconciliation: A Space for Religion in Politics
Jen Betz (Notre Dame)

10:45-11:45 a.m.
AUDITORIUM

Peace Strategies Workshop
Colman McCarthy
10:45-11:45 a.m.
ROOM C-103
Islam and an Inter-Religious Dialogue
Caught Between Two Tigers: Christians in South Asia
Yagoob Bangash, (Notre Dame)
Rashid Omar (Notre Dame)*
Fr. Gaffney
10:45-11:45 a.m.
ROOM C-104/105

Youth for Global Change
Children Without Dreams
Ilan Harpaz-Rotem (New School for Social Research, NYC)
Balkans Youth Link
Ereblir Kadriu (Saint Mary’s College, CA)
Gender Differences: Children's Understandings of War and Peace
Roshan Khosravi (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

 

Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch (free for registered conference attendees)

1:30-2:30 p.m.
AUDITORIUM

Talk it Out, Walk it Out, Wait it Out: South Bend Youth
and the Non-Violence Movement

A Presentation by South Bend elementary school students involved
in the nationwide Take Ten movement
1:30-2:30 p.m.
ROOM C-103
Different Perspectives: Military and Non-Violent Approaches
to Promoting Peace

The Virtue of a Military
Andrew DeBerry (Notre Dame)
One
Shirley Garcia (Kent State University)
A Catholic, A Citizen, A Soldier: My Patriot Games
Joe Friel (Notre Dame)

1:30-2:30 p.m
ROOM C-104/105

International Ethnic Conflicts
Palestine and Israel meet Martin Heidegger
Katherine Dugan (College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN)
Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico
Katie Conlin (College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN)
The Long Road to Genocide: Colonialism, Racism,
and Unchecked State Power in Rwanda

Jon Alvarez (Notre Dame)

2:45-3:45 p.m.
AUDITORIUM

Degrees of Identity
Layered by Race: A Photography Presentation
Monica Haller (College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN)
Social Movements Facing the Processes of Globalization and Regionalization: Beyond Paradigms of Class and Identity
Veronica Alfaro (New School for Social Research, NYC)
Immigration from the Perspective of Liberation Theology
Katie Millar (Notre Dame)
Immigration, Violence, and Physical Identity
in a Community in Southern Spain

Krista Schoening (Notre Dame)
2:45-3:45 p.m.
ROOM C-103
The Man in Black: A Roundtable Discussion with Fr. Ted
A casual interaction with Fr. Theodore Hesburgh about his lifelong
experiences as a peace advocate.
2:45-3:45 p.m.
ROOM C-104/105
Looking at the Aftermath: Justice After Conflict
Pathways to Reconciliation
Daniel Corle (American University)
International Criminal Court
Chris DesBarres (Notre Dame)
The Conditions for Justice in East Timor -
The Need for an International Tribunal

Jim Madden (Notre Dame)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
ROOM C-103
International Responses to Conflict
Plan Colombia: A First-hand Account of the War in Colombia
and the Role of the U.S.

Kristin Kumpf and Kelle Rose (St Louis University)
Rwandan Genocide: Indicting the International Community
January Makamba (St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN)
Foreign Involvement in the Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia
Tamara Pavasovic (Allegheny College, Meadville, PA)
4:00-5:00 p.m.
ROOM C-104/105
The Role of the Media in Conflict
The Media's Undermining of Democracy and Journalism
Liam Dacey (Notre Dame)
Peace Through Media and Media for Peace: Media
and Post-Conflict Peace Building in Divided Societies

Josh Bazuin (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
The Role of The Media in Conflict and Peacebuilding
Anastasiya Leukhina (Notre Dame)
5:00 p.m.
AUDITORIUM

Closing Concert
Saint Mary’s College (IN) dance performance
Melissa Harris (Notre Dame)
Michael Makens (Notre Dame)
"They Shouldn't Have to be Heroes"
Leah Welch (Muskingum College, New Concord, OH),
Mike Mazzeffi (Notre Dame)
Brenton Sullivan & fellow drummers (Notre Dame)
Notre Dame Voices of Faith Choir
Poetry Reading and John Lennon's "Imagine"
Patrick Simon (Notre Dame)
Adrienne de la Rosa (Notre Dame)

 

 

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