26-27 March 2004
Annual Student Peace Conference
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame

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

2004 Conference Schedule

All sessions held in
Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Friday, March 26
12:00-5:00 p.m.	Conference Registration - Great Hall
6:30 p.m.	Dinner - Greenfield's Cafe
8:00 p.m.	Keynote Address (Auditorium) - Mariclaire Acosta An internationally renowned human rights advocate hailing from Mexico, Mariclaire Acosta has experience in a wide variety of areas, including sociology, Latin American political culture, U.S. – Mexican foreign relations, woman’s rights, and human rights education and promotion. She is also co-founder of the Mexican Academy of Human Rights, founder of the Mexican Commission of the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, and former deputy secretary and special ambassador for Human Rights and Democracy at the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Saturday, March 27
8:30-9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast - Great Hall
9:00-10:00 a.m.	Session I Presentation by Take Ten (Auditorium) – Anne Parry, the founder of Take Ten, will speak and a short performance by some of the children who participate in Take Ten, as well as an awards ceremony and an overall discussion of the program will be presented. The Future of Peace: Education and Development Programs (C-102) · Moderator: · A comparative study of a recent secularly based educational reform law in France, and its implications for Peace education in America, by Joseph Schroer, University of Cincinnati · Nurturing Peaceful Character, by Anna Gomberg and Scott Hagele, University of Notre Dame · The Pledge of Nonviolence: A Way to Peace, by Teresa Hansen, University of Notre Dame The Just War Debate and other Religious Narratives (C-103) · Moderator: · Just War Tradition, Liberal Thought and Internal War, by Sergio Koc-Menard, Carleton University, Ontario · Just War Theory in Iraq, by Brian Coughlan, University of Notre Dame · Religion and THE PROBLEM of Violence: Catholicism in the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia, by Slavica Jakelic, a Post-doctoral Fellow from the University of Virginia · Reconciliation after September 11: Secular Bankruptcy and the Religious Difference, by Steven Harsono, Wheaton College
10:00-10:15 a.m.	Short Break. Coffee and Snacks provided.
10:15-11:30 a.m.	Session II Children’s Defense Fund Presentation: Children and Violence in South Bend (Auditorium) Roundtable discussion with leaders from the South Bend community who work with children's issues. Negotiation Simulation Workshop (C-103) - Space is limited to 24 participants. Sign-ups are available at registration on Friday, March 26th. Redefining Conceptual Factors within War and Peace (C-102) · Was there War Before Civilization?, by Ryan Lewis, Heidelberg College · The Case for Complexity: Identifying a Potential Weakness in the Contemporary Peace Movement, by Harold E. Ernst, University of Notre Dame Doctoral Student · Freedom from Fear: A Need to Demystify Terrorism, by Camlus Omogo, University of Notre Dame Graduate Student · Cultural Factors in Conflict and Negotiation, by Brenda Fitzpatrick, University of Notre Dame
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	Boxed Lunches (provided)
12:15-1:15 p.m.	Session III What Role Should the Educator Play in Peace Education and Social Justice? (Auditorium) A Panel Discussion of Peace Education, by graduate students from the University of Toledo – College of Education Forgotten Faces: Humanizing the Discussion of Peace (C-102) · Moderator: · The Aftermath: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and War Veterans, by Heather Alger, Heidelberg College [need title verification] · Policies, Propaganda, and Patriarchy: Effects on Women’s Lives in Post-conflict Cyprus, by Willow Wetherall, University of Notre Dame Graduate Student · Child Soldiers and the Arms Trade, by DeMark Schulze, University of Notre Dame · Youth Intervention for Peace Project: An Innovative Approach to Relationship Building in Interethnic Conflict – Burundi Case Study, by Jean-Paul Bigirindavyi The Peace Process at home: America’s Domestic Struggles with Peace (C-103) · Moderator: · Beyond the Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Building a Collective Memory of Peace, by Kamaria Porter, University of Notre Dame · Building Peace in the US: Toward a New Paradigm for Racial Reconciliation, by Josh Moore, University of Notre Dame, Graduate Student · An analysis of the rhetoric and the ideology of The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2002, by Douglas Ayling, University of Notre Dame · Citizens for Peace: Convergences of Political Elections and Peace Movements in America, by Peter J. Quaranto, University of Notre Dame
1:15-1:30 P.M.	Short Break. Soda provided.
1:30-2:30 p.m.	Elvia Alvarado 2004 Speak Out Tour (Auditorium) Elvia Alvarado is a peasant leader in Honduras, the poorest country in Central America and a nation known for the abhorrent practices of sweatshops, decades of U.S. military occupation and the destruction wrought by Hurricane Mitch. For 30 years, Alvarado has been at the forefront of human rights and land reform struggles. She is a passionate voice on the effects of economic globalization, particularly on women and children.
2:30-2:45 p.m.	Short Break. Soda and snacks provided.
2:45-4:00 p.m.	Session IV Presentation by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (Auditorium) Examining the Peace Process through Case Studies (C-103) · Moderator: · “Forgotten” No More: Freeing Burma from Fear, by Kate Belden and Maureen Fitzpatrick, University of Notre Dame · Balancing Justice and Reconciliation: Revisiting the Investigation of the Kwangju Uprising (Kwangju Massacre), by Donna Chung, San Diego, CA · Peace despite economic conditions in Burkina Faso, by Mark Canavera, University of Notre Dame Graduate Student · A Case Study of Cantomanyog Peace Zone, Negros Island, Philippines, by Renia Corocoto Governmental Policies and their Effects on the International System (C-102) · Moderator: · Comparative Study of the Impact of Domestic Politics on National Refugee and Asylum Policies, by Jennifer Schmalz, University of St. Thomas · Finding Peace at Last: Reflecting on Afghanistan, by Atiq Zamani, Earlham College · Geographical Analysis of Human Rights in United States Foreign Policy, by Toni-Marie Zuzolo, Siena College · Peace Corps and American Fulbright Program – The American Government’s Positive Peaceful Influence?, by Mark R. Holbert, Michigan State University
4:15-5:15 p.m.	Session V Presentation by Juan Mendez (Auditorium) – Sendoff speech as he departs from Notre Dame; Juan E. Méndez, an Argentina native, is Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the Notre Dame Law School and has a long history in human rights advocacy as well as personal experience as a political prisoner of the Argentinean military dictatorship; Amnesty International adopted him as a “Prisoner of Conscience”. Overcoming Fear in the Quest for Peace and Understanding (C-103) Presentations by Biljana Radonic (MA Student at the Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame), Arnold J. Oliver (Professor of Political Science, Heidelberg College), and Tessa Garcia and Eve Tomas with Sustained Dialogue (organization at the University of Notre Dame that works to promote understanding through dialogue) The International System and its Efforts for Peace (C-102) · Moderator: · A World of Integration and Fragmentation: Globalization, Regionalism and the future of Liberal Democracy, by Oscar H.F. Pärlbäck, Marquette University · Interpretive Advocacy as a Peace-building tool for Humanitarian Organizations in Conflict Settings, by E. Omondi Opongo, University of Notre Dame Graduate Student · The International Criminal Court as a Peace-building Institute: Challenges to legitimacy in the twenty-first century, by Steve Dorman, Portland State University · Never Again. Seriously.: Overcoming the International Diffusion of Responsibility, by Kevin Conley, University of Notre Dame
5:15-5:30 p.m.	Short Break
5:30-6:00 p.m.	Musical Performance and Closing Remarks by Juan Mendez (Auditorium)
8:00-8:45 p.m.	Hate Crimes Vigil (Grotto)
9:00-10:00 p.m.	Salsa Dance Lessons (Center for Social Concerns)

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