Swarthmore students attend Peace and Justice Studies
Association (PJSA) annual meeting in New York.
October 5-8, the
PJSA
held its annual meeting at Manhattan College. Four
Swarthmore students and Professors Lee Smithey and George Lakey
travelled to New York to participate.
(Chris Owens '08, Sasha Raskin '09, Sarah Noble '10,
Lee Smithey)
(Sarah Noble, Yukako Otori)
Amy Kapit '06 writes for Israel Policy Forum
Amy Kapit '06, a recent Honors Peace and Conflict
Studies graduate is completing an internship at the
Israel Policy Forum
where she has contributed to the organization's
weekly analysis with a piece on the
tenuous ceasefire in Lebanon
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George Lakey named 2006-2007
Eugene M. Lang Professor
for Issues of Social Change
During the 2006-2007 academic
year, George Lakey, author, activist, and, founder of
Training for Change will join the Peace and Conflict Studies
program at Swarthmore.
Read the College's
press release.
Professor Lakey will teach a course
on "Humanitarian Intervention: Nonviolent Options" during
the Fall 2006 semester, and he will teach "Nonviolent Responses
to Terrorism" during the Spring 2007 semester.
The Lang Center is pleased to announce the
appointment of George Lakey as the Eugene M. Lang Professor
for Issues of Social Change in 2006-2007. George
Lakey is the founder and Executive Director of
Training for Change
, a Philadelphia-based
organization that is nationally and internationally
known for its leadership in creating and teaching strategies
for nonviolent social change. Lakey has been a leader
in the field of nonviolent social change since the 1960s and
has published extensively for both activist and academic readers.
He has worked with US mineworkers, steelworkers, civil
rights leaders, South African anti-apartheid activists,
Cambodian human rights organizers, and many others.
George also contributes
to our knowledge of nonviolent social change through
his writing. He has contributed many book chapters,
pamphlets, and articles, and his work has been translated
into at least six languages. His books include A Manual
for Direct Action, Powerful Peacemaking: a Strategy
for a Living Revolution, and Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership:
a Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.
George has taught at
the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College,
Temple University, and at Swarthmore. During his term
as Lang Professor, his academic home will be in the Peace
and Conflict Studies Program and his teaching will include
the development, with Lee Smithey, of a new course entitled "Peace
Studies and Action."
George brings a depth
of experience and expertise in peace studies and social
change activism that will benefit the Peace and Conflict
Studies program, the Lang Center, and the College.
We hope you will join us in welcoming him when he arrives
on campus next fall.
Ellen Magenheim
Professor, Economics
Director for Academic
Relations,
Lang Center for Civic
and
Social Responsibility
Nonviolent
Response to Terrorism
marking the fifth anniversary
of 9-11 and one hundred years of nonviolent action
Swarthmore College
Scheuer Room,
Kohlberg Hall
September 11, 2006; 4:15 - 5:30
Five years after
the horrific attacks by Al Qaeda on the World Trade Center
in New York, we will take time to reflect on how the United States
as a nation has chosen to respond. The government has adopted
a foreign policy of 'war on terror' that emphasizes invasive intelligence
gathering and military action. At the initial cost of over three-thousand
civilian lives, Operation Enduring Freedom continues to struggle
with Pushtun and Tajik Resistance in Afghanistan, while Operation
Iraqi Freedom has failed to bring stability to Iraq, which may be sliding
toward a sectarian civil war. We are left to ask whether violent
responses such as these have successfully undermined non-state terrorist
organizations. George Lakey , nonviolent
action trainer and 2006-07 Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change,
will join Tom Hastings , author of Nonviolent
Response to Terrorism, to consider feasible nonviolent alternatives
and their historical precedents and to discuss whether nonviolent direct
action can challenge non-state terrorism as effectively as it has challenged
state terror. This event has added significance as September 11 also
marks the centenary of Gandhi's first major, public nonviolent campaign
against race prejudice in South Africa.
George Lakey
Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social
Change 2006-07, Founder and Executive Director of
Training for Change
. Author of A Strategy for a Living Revolution
and A Manual for Direct Action
Tom Hastings
Director of Peace & Nonviolence
Studies at Portland State University.
Author
of Nonviolent Response to Terrorism
and Meek Ain’t Weak: Nonviolent Power and
People of Color
Special
Guests: Our
Voices Together
, represented by Co-founder Lynne Steuerle
Schofield ’99
Refreshments will be provided.
Directions to Swarthmore College
Sponsors: The President’s Office, Peace and
Conflict Studies; Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility,
War News Radio, Our Voices Together, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
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John Brady Kiesling ’79, foreign service
veteran and author of the recently released
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower
A 20-year veteran of the State Department, serving
in Israel, Morocco, Armenia, Washington, and Greece, Kiesling
publicly resigned his position as political counselor of the U.S.
Embassy in Athens in February 2003 to protest the Bush administration’s
impending invasion of Iraq.
Kiesling will discuss his book, in which he
reminds readers that U.S. power does not rest on military might
alone and that anger at America has real consequences for U.S.
national interests. Kiesling calls for a return to realist policy-making
that recognized the limits of U.S. power and uses thoughtful
diplomacy to legitimize our security requirements in the eyes of
our international partners.
This book is, at heart, an argument for how
to best achieve America's goals abroad. Kiesling's passionate
critique of current U.S. foreign policy and his prescription
for restoring American influence and legitimacy will interest
anyone concerned about the future of U.S. and world affairs.
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
(Potomac Books, 2006), will speak on Tuesday,
Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Lang Performing Arts Center. |
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Date: Tue, Sep
12, 2006 7:00 p.m. Location:
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Email:
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But What Can I Do?
Non Violent Responses to Terrorism
Thursday, Sept.
14, 12:15-1:30 PM
Lunch and discussion
Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall
RSVP to drobins2
Lynne Steurle, Swarthmore '99, lost her mother
on September 11, 2001, on the plane that was crashed into the
Pentagon. As co-founder of
Our Voices Together
she seeks to re-engage the spirit of goodwill
and widespread solidarity against terrorist tactics that prevailed
across the globe in the early days after September 11, 2001.
National Foreign Affairs and Counterterrorism Advisers
to Discuss ‘National Security and the Way Forward’
Monday, Sep 18,
2006 3:00 p.m.
Lang Performing Arts Center Cinema,
Swarthmore College
Directions to Swarthmore College
A distinguished group of foreign affairs and counterterrorism
advisers will speak on Monday, Sept. 18, at 3 p.m. about U.S.
foreign and defense policy in a panel discussion titled “National
Security and the Way Forward.”
The panelists are former National Security Council
members Rand Beers and Richard Clarke, former Assistant to the
President for National Security Affairs Anthony Lake, and former
Director for Defense Policy and Congressional candidate (D. Pa.)
Joe Sestak. Assistant professor of Political Science Dominic Tierney
will moderate the discussion. The panel, in the Lang Performing Arts
Center Cinema, is free and open to the public.
Rand Beers is a former
American counterterrorism adviser who served on the National Security
Council (N.S.C.) under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush,
Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He also served as Assistant Secretary
of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs under
both Clinton and George W. Bush. Beers resigned in protest from
the N.S.C. in March 2003, five days before commencement of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq.
After leaving his N.S.C. position, Beers joined
the presidential campaign of John Kerry, serving as the National
Security Advisor to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. He teaches
a seminar in collaboration with Richard Clarke on national security
issues at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and
serves as president of the National Security Network. He is a graduate
of Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan.
Richard Clarke provided
national security advice to four U.S. presidents: Ronald Reagan,
George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, consulting on
issues of intelligence and terrorism from 1973 to 2003. Until his
retirement in 2003, Clarke was a member of the Senior Executive
Service. Clarke’s specialties are computer security, counterterrorism,
and homeland security. He was the counterterrorism adviser on the
U.S. National Security Council when the September 11, 2001, attacks
occurred.
He resigned in January 2003 to work on his book,
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on TerrorWhat
Really Happened (Free Press, 2004). He was a member of the National
Security Council from 1992 to 2003 and the Department of State
from 1985 to 1992 as Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military
Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence.
Anthony Lake is Distinguished
Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Lake most recently
served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
during the Clinton administration. He joined the U.S. Foreign
Service in 1962 and his State Department career included assignments
as U.S. Vice Consul in Saigon and Hue, Special Assistant to the National
Security Advisor, and Director of Policy Planning. He is the author
of several books, including Somoza Falling and The “Tar Baby” Option:
American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia, and co-author of Our Own Worst
Enemy: The Unmasking of American Foreign Policy. Lake received his Ph.D.
from Princeton University.
Joseph “Joe” Sestak Jr.
of Springfield, a retired U. S. Navy vice admiral, is running
for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in Pennsylvania’s
7th congressional district. Most recently in his Naval career, (November
1994 to March 1997) Sestak was the Director for Defense Policy on
the National Security Council staff at the White House, where he was
responsible for national security and defense strategy, policies, programs,
inter-agency and congressional coordination, and regional political-military
advice. Sestak then directed the Chief of Naval Operation’s Strategy
and Policy Division. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, he became the
first director of the Navy Operations Group, which sought to redefine
strategic, operational, and budgetary policies in the Global War on Terrorism.
Sestak’s decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal,
Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit awards, two Meritorious
Service Medals, Joint Service Commendation Medal, three Navy Commendation
Medals, and the Navy Achievement Medal.
Sestak graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with
a B.S. in American Political Systems. Between tours at sea, Sestak
earned a master’s degree in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in
Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.
SALT (Social Action Leadership Training)
Working for Social Change: Some hard and Easy Lessons
Thursday, October 5,
5:30-7:45
Kohlberg Coffee Bar
Stories and Discussion with George Lakey. This is
the second of a series of bi-weekly leadership workshops. The theme
of this evening is Story Telling, where George Lakey, the Lang Visiting
Professor for Issues of Social Change, will share stories and discussion
on the hard and easy lessons from working for social change. Professor
Lakey has led social change campaigns on local, regional, and national
and international levels. First arrested for a civil rights sit-in
in Chester, he’s fought for LGBT rights, environment, peace self
determination. He’s led 1500 activist workshops on five continents.
Light dinner fare will be served.
To register, email Delores Robinson at drobins2
Recent Trends in the American Environmental Movement
Thursday,
November 2, 2006
Hicks Lecture Hall, Room 312, at 4:30
Mr. Weir, author of
Star of Hope: The Life and Times of John McConnell Founder
of Earth Day
, will also address McConnell's vision of "peace, justice
and the care of Earth."
Speak for Peace Panel on Arab-Israeli Conflict
Thursday, November 2,
7:30 p.m.
Scheuer Room, Swarthmore College
Three Swarthmore College professors and a rabbi of different
perspectives and backgrounds will discuss what they see as the way
forward in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The panelists:
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Professor of Philosophy Richard Schuldenfrei
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Visiting Political Science Professor Amel Ahmed, Professor
of Arabic Language and Literature Walid Hamarneh
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Rabbi Howard Alpert, executive director of the Hillel of
Greater Philadelphia.
Moderator: Visiting Lang Professor George Lakey.
The panel is sponsored by the Political
Science, Philosophy, and Peac and Conflict Studies Departments and
the student organization Speak for Peace.
Breaking the Silence
Friday, November 17,
2:00 PM
Scheuer Room
Israeli Soldiers, Yehuda Shaul and Dotan Greenvald, of
Breaking the Silence
, share their experiences of serving in the Israeli occupation
of the West Bank and Hebron
Betsy Leondar-Wright
Monday, November 29th, 2006
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"Building Stronger Cross-Class Alliances" 2-5 p.m., Kohlberg
Hall 228
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"Bridging the Red-Blue Divide: Untangling Class in the Midterm
Election" 7 p.m. in Science Center 199
BUILDING CROSS-CLASS ALLIANCES
Class is the elephant under the carpet in many groups working
for
progressive social change.
When we walk into a group, we can immediately make pretty good
guesses about people¹s gender and race, and we share common vocabulary
to discuss dynamics between men and women or between white people and
people of color. But our lack of shared vocabulary about class may leave
a blank spot in our political analysis.
We may have the best intentions of creating class-diverse groups,
but if we
live a class-segregated life and recruit from our social networks,
we¹ll end
up with members at roughly the education and income level as
our own.
Middle-class activists in particular may overlook the contributions
that
working-class and poor people could make to our organizations,
and may repel
interested people with our unaware classist attitudes.
When we do manage to create a diverse coalition, misunderstandings,
different ways of doing things, and different amounts of money
and clout
often tear the group apart. Tackling classism in movements
for social change
should be on the agenda of every progressive person and organization.
Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of the new book Class Matters:
Cross-Class
Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists and Communications
Director at
United for a Fair Economy, will open up this unspoken issue
to talk about
class differences and how we can cross them to build stronger
movements for
social change. Using interactive exercises, this workshop lets
participants
practice the skills of cross-class collaboration.
BRIDGING THE BLUE-RED DIVIDE
Many college-educated liberals and progressives find it inexplicable
when
people put yellow ribbons on their cars, base their politics
on their
religion, or vote against their economic self-interests. It¹s
no coincidence
that some of these ³inexplicable² people are working
class.
How did our country become polarized into red and blue camps?
One ingredient is middle-class ignorance of how our society looks from
the bottom of the economic ladder. The right has understood working-class
culture and values far better than the left, and has manipulated them
for its own ends.
Stereotypes of working-class people as more conservative
and of
conservatives as lower income hamper liberal political
strategizing. Some
college-educated progressives belittle views on religion and
culture
different than their own, writing off as hopelessly conservative
or even as
stupid millions of people who in fact share their views on
many economic
issues. Some liberals huddle with those of their same privileged
class
background, not developing their ability to communicate with
working-class
people.
To bridge this gap, college-educated progressives need to become
more ³class
multicultural.² That is, they need to learn to see through
differences to
find their blue-collar allies, to bond through humor and respectful
talk,
and to build strong coalitions that include organizations from
all classes.
Betsy Leondar-Wright, author of the new book Class Matters:
Cross-Class
Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists and Communications
Director at
United for a Fair Economy, will clear away the fog around political
opinions
and class, and lay the groundwork for a political strategy
that reaches
across class and red/blue lines
Conference on Genocide in Darfur
This weekend, take an hour to learn about the genocide in Darfur
from some
of the world leaders who will be converging on campus.
Highlights include:
Mohamed Yahya is a refugee from Darfur and
the Executive Director and founder of the Damanga Coalition for Freedom
and Democracy. Yahya has been one of the world’s leading advocates
working to publicize the human rights abuses occurring in Darfur.
He will offer a rare opportunity to hear an African-based perspective
on the conflict and the path needed for peace.
Friday, 8pm, Sci 199
Actress Mia Farrow has, just days ago, returned from her
3rd trip to Darfur as the as the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She
has toured refugee camps and met with representatives from the Sudanese
government and the Sudanese Liberation Movement. She will discuss
the situation on the group in the camps and tell her many personal stories
from Darfur.
Saturday, 7:30pm, Upper Tarble
Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College,
is the leading academic advocate for Darfur. He has spent the
past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst,
publishing extensively both in the US and internationally. He has testified
several times before the Congress, has lectured widely in academic settings,
and has served as a consultant
to a number of human rights and humanitarian organizations operating
in Sudan.
Saturday, 9am, LPAC Cinema
For full information about the conference, check out
http://www.timetoprotect.org/conferences_mid-atlantic
Bob Fitch and Nonviolent Peaceforce
December 5, 2006
5:30 p.m supper;
6:00-7:30 p.m. presentation
at the Lang Center at Swarthmore College
(in the Swarthmore train station,
see campus map
)
In 2005
Nonviolent Peaceforce
sent Bob to Sri Lanka to visually document the on going
struggles this country faces due to a continuing history of war.
Through photography, Bob illustrates how the unarmed Nonviolent
Peaceforce Field Team members apply proven strategies to protect human
rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers
to carry out their work.
Please RSVP with Delores Robins at 610-690-5742 or drobins2
at swarthmore.edu
Sponsors: Peace and Conflict Studies; Lang Center for Civic
and Social Responsibility
Ethnopolitical Conflict Transformation: Cultural
Innovation and Loyalist Identity in Northern Ireland
Lee Smithey addressed the Swarthmore Economic Discussion Group
on January 18, 2007 in Bond Hall.
Initiatives to modify public cultural expressions, such as parades,
murals, and commemorations provide a window into the challenges loyalist
and unionist communities in Northern Ireland face in adapting to new political
circumstances, looking after their interests, and maintaining community
cohesion and tradition.
The Foreign Study
Office
and the Peace and Conflict Studies program are pleased to announce
a new foreign study program.
The Northern
Ireland Semester
Come
join us for an informational session with speakers, visuals, and refreshments.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
7:00 p.m., Kohlberg 228
The
Northern Ireland Semester will focus on ongoing and productive efforts
to foster peace in Northern Ireland. For students who attend the program,
the
centerpiece of the semester will entail participating with local
community groups dedicated to and heavily involved with creating civil
society organizations pursuing peace.
The semester is based in Derry/Londonderry, but student involvement
with community groups may take place elsewhere in Northern Ireland. Swarthmore
students will complete the program under the College's Semester/Year
Abroad Program. They may do so for one semester or two. Possibilities
for summer research and/or service work in Northern Ireland may arise
from participation in the program.
Contact
Steve Piker (x7826), Professor of Anthropology and the
Foreign Study
Adviser with questions or expressions of interest.
Making Nonviolent Struggle More Powerful: Framing Strategies
A lecture by George Lakey, Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Scheuer Room in Kohlberg Hall
Swarthmore College
Reception 4:15
Lecture 4:30-5:45
The use of nonviolent struggle to overthrow dictators, fight racism
and
defend whales does not exhaust its potential, according to George
Lakey.
In this lecture he proposes several distinct ways nonviolence
can be used
as a social intervention. Policy-makers and activists alike need
to
understand the differences among these uses of nonviolence in order
to
create more powerful strategies to address a wide range of social
issues.
Eugene M. Lang Visiting Professor George Lakey has authored seven
books
and led 1500 workshops on five continents. He has led nonviolent
campaigns
on local, national and international levels, and taught sociology
at
Haverford and the University of Pennsylvania. For more information,
see http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/peace/news.htm#Lakey
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Directions and maps
Sponsors: The President's Office, The Provost's Office, The
Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, Peace and Conflict Studies
A symposium
on "Anti-Americanism, Failing States and American Foreign Policy:
Challenges in Contemporary International Politics" will be held at
Swarthmore College on Friday and Saturday, March 30-31.
Some of the nation's leading scholars in international politics
will convene to discuss this topic and to honor their colleague, Richter
Professor of Political Science Raymond Hopkins, who will retire from
Swarthmore this spring. All panels will be held in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg
Hall. The symposium is free and open to the public.
Dominic Tierney, a moderator, and Ray Hopkins both serve on the Peace
and Conflict Studies committee.
Many thanks to Ray Hopkins for his steadfast support of Peace and
Conflict Studies at Swarthmore! And best wishes in all of his future endeavors!
more information.
Tri-co Peace Week
Annual Tri-College Peace Week events, organized by
Save R Us
will be held March 30-April 7 ...
Stay tuned for a final schedule...
The Peace and Conflict Studies program is co-sponsoring the following
events:
Pictures
Without Borders
: Bosnia Revisited
4:30, Sunday, April 1, 2007
, Science Center 101
A slide talk by photographer and author Steve Horn. This is a poignant
story about war, peace, and the sustaining nature of the human spirit.
In 2003, Steve Horn retraced his 1970 route through Bosnia, revisiting
towns and tracking down people from thirty years earlier to learn their
stories.
Hardy Merriman
of the International Center
for Nonviolent Conflict
Monday, April 2, 2007
, 7:30 p.m., Scheuer Room
The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict is an independent,
non-profit, educational foundation that develops and encourages the study
and use of civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies to establish and defend
human rights, democracy and justice worldwide.
Torture and Democracy: What Americans Learned and Then Forgot During
the War on Terror
Darius Rejali
'81
Professor of Political Science, Reed College
Monday, April 2, 2007, 4:00
p.m. Science Center, Room 101.
Rejali
is the author of a forthcoming book, Torture and Democracy.
The Charles E. Gilbert Lecture is sponsored by the Department of Political
Science and is also part of Peace Week at Swarthmore.
Celebrating
Jennie Keith
Scholarship, Teaching, and Civic Engagement
Jennie Keith (center) has played an important role in the development
of Project Pericles
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Professor Jennie Keith
, a founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Centennial Professor
of Anthropology, has announced her retirement. Prof. Keith is a
former Provost and Director of the
Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
, We are immensely grateful for her participation in the program
and especially for her gentle wisdom.
Colleagues will celebrate her career and important contributions to anthropology,
the college, and civic engagment.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Science Center, Room 199
4:30 - 5:15 p.m.
Presentations
by
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Miguel Diaz-Barriga, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department
of Sociology/Anthropology
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Marc Freedman, Class of '80, Founder and CEO of Civic Ventures
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Cynthia Jetter, Class of '74, Director of Community Partnerships and
Planning, Eugene M. Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
A reception
will follow: 5:15 - 6:00 p.m. in the Science Center Lobby
Dr. Jennifer
Dougherty joins the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Swarthmore
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jennifer Doughertywill be joining the
program next year to teach "Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies" and
two more courses.
Dr. Dougherty comes to us with her Ph.D. from the
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
at George Mason University. She also holds a Post-Graduate Diploma
in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
During the fall semester, Professor Dougherty will teach Introduction to
Peace and Conflict Studies, and in the spring , she will teach "Conflict
Resolution: Mediation Theory and Practice" and "Comparative Peace Processes
."
George Lakey to return to Lang Center in 2007-2008
During the 2006-2007 academic year,
George Lakey, author, activist, and,
founder of
Training for Change
joined the Peace and Conflict Studies
program at Swarthmore and taught three courses.
He will return to Swarthmore and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility
during the 2007-2008 academic year to offer workshops for the college community.
The Camden 28
7PM, Wednesday,
September 20, 2006
(Eve of International Peace Day and start of Declaration
of Peace
Week)
International House, 3701 Chestnut St, Phila., PA
Admission: $10. $8 for Students and Seniors
Winner of both the Philadelphia Film Festival's Audience
and Jury
Awards for "Best Documentary". THE CAMDEN 28
is a riveting
story of resistance, friendship and community, betrayal
and
vindication played out against the backdrop of one
of the most
turbulent periods in U.S. history.
On August 22, 1971, twenty-eight men and women carried
out a
powerful act of civil disobedience against the U.S.
war in Vietnam by
attempting to break into a draft board and destroy
draft files in the
Camden, NJ Federal Building. The activists
were part of a
nonviolent anti-war movement popularly known as the
"Catholic
Left." Apprehended "in the act", the activists stated
that their actions
were meant to show their belief that killing and
war was morally
indefensible and must be stopped even at the risk
of one's liberty.
By conducting their action in Camden, NJ (then and
now, one of the
poorest cities in the nation), the activists
wanted to demonstrate the
war's damaging effect on an impoverished people.
How far would you go to stop a war?
After the film, join filmmaker Anthony Giaccino,
members of the
Camden 28, the Brandywine Peace Community, and some
of
today's generation of peace activists for a discussion
about how the
events portrayed in the film resonate in today's
climate and how we
can move from opposition to resistance.
Contact:
Brandywine Peace Community
, 610-544-1818
Sponsors:Scribe Video Center Producers' Forum &
Brandywine Peace Community Presents
Class Matters – In Community and in Coalition
A weekend with George Lakey and Nancy Diaz
October 27-29, 2006
Both the New York Times and Washington Post recently
gave major attention to trends in the class structure of the United
States. We'll explore how class patterns show up – and get in the
way – when people try to deepen their sense of community with each
other, in religious or secular groups. We'll also explore the dynamics
of class relations in coalitions for social change. Our goal? To make
unity possible! Not the superficial unity which denies class difference,
but the authentic unity that comes from working through our differences.
Contact:
(610) 566-4507 or (800) 742-3150
extension 3
registrar@pendlehill.org
A Pendle Hill
Event
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Camillus joins Peace and Justice
Studies Association Board
John Brady Kiesling ’79, foreign service
veteran and author of the recently released
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower