Mon 10/25 – Sat 10/30
Here’s an amazing event @ Case Western Reserve University: International Peace & War Summit. Scholars, veterans, practitioners and citizens come together from Mon 10/25 – Sat 10/30 to discuss a wide range of topics relating to peace. Let’s talk about creating a more just, peaceful society. Ed Tick, PhD, will be keynote speaker.
Info:
The 2010 International Conference on Peace and War will bring together top scholars from many nations and disciplines, including military ethicists and those who work in peace studies or conflict resolution. These will be unique conversations that have not be held before among interested minds from all over globe who are committed to better understanding war in order to forge a just peace. These scholars will be joined by veterans and currently serving military personnel, as well as a broad cross-section of practitioners, such as psychologists and psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, business men and women, elected officials, civil servants, non-profit sector workers and more. Seven panel discussions will take place throughout the week of the Summit on a broad array of topics relating to peace and war (please see schedule).
The themes of peace and war will also be explored through the arts. The Summit will feature a poetry reading, play, concert, and two art exhibits. The play will be a dramatic reading of “May 4thVoices,” written by Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center Director David Hassler (named Ohio’s 2006 Poet of the Year). This work brings together more than eighty eye-witness accounts and memories of the Kent State shootings on the fortieth anniversary of those tragic events. The art exhibits include a gallery exhibit of the art of Vietnamese children on loan from Vietnam and an installation combining art pieces with the reflections of war veterans.
How awesome is that?!
CWRU
http://Case.edu/provost/inamori/peacesummit
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