26-27 March 2004
2004 Annual Student Peace Conference
Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame
Conference
Schedule
In the future days,
which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world
founded upon four essential human freedoms…The fourth is
freedom from fear…That is no vision of a distant millennium.
It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in
our own time and generation.
~Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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Students
from across the country and around the world will gather at
the University of Notre Dame this weekend for the annual Student
Peace Conference sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies. The conference theme is “Freedom From Fear:
The Freedom of Peace.”
The
conference is planned and run by undergraduate students of
the University. This year's conference will host the greatest
number of participants in the event's decade-long history.
Speakers
will include Mariclaire Acosta, an internationally renowned
human rights advocate hailing from Mexico; and Elvia Alvarado,
a peasant leader traveling from Honduras to speak about land
reform and the effects of globalization.
Conference
events will include roundtable discussions with leaders working
for peace and justice in the South Bend community, a negotiation
simulation workshop, and presentations given by undergraduate
and graduate students on diverse topics related to the cultivation
of a more just society.
The
conference begins with the keynote address by Acosta on Friday
at 8:00 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies
on the Notre Dame campus. It continues at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday
and concludes with a ceremony at 5:30 p.m. that evening. A
schedule of events will be available online at http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/events/freedomfromfear.shtml
.
As
the world debates the wisdom of Iraq War II, these students
gather in a spirit of scholarly activism to lay the foundation
for a future rooted in the peaceful pursuit of justice.
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