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Conference Program

Opening
  7:30 a.m.

Deconstructing a Culture of Violence

Session 1
  8:00 a.m.
Relations of Violence

• Prof. Charlene Gilbert, reading: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam"
• Prof. Emeritus Al Cave (bio)
  • Dehumanization and the History of Violence Against Native Americans
• Dr. S. Amjad Hussain (bio)
  • Confessions of a Closet Terrorist
• Andy Thayer (bio)
  • Dehumanization, War and Other Violence
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator (bio)

Session 2
  9:45 a.m.
Culture of Fear

• Dr. Cynthia Jo Ingham, reading: Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • "Non-Violence in American Society"
• Terry J. Lodge, Esq. (bio)
  Trial lawyer
  • Renouncing the Surveillance State
• Prof. Renee Heberle (bio)
  • American Exceptionalism and the Violence of the Carceral State
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator

Session 3
  11:15 a.m.
The Wages of War

• Dr. Peter Linebaugh, reading: Leo Tolstoy
  • "Patriotism and Government"
• Greg Coleridge (bio)
  Director, Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
  • Ending Our Economic Addiction to War
• Dr. Trudy Bond, Psychologist (bio)
  • Ten Years of Torture and Counting
• Richard W. Hanusz (bio)
  • School of the Americas, School of Assassins: History and Present Activity
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator

Round Robin
  1:00 p.m.

• in which the audience is invited to speak on other signs or legacies of the "culture of violence"
  • What did we miss?

Constructing a Culture of Peace

Session 4
  1:30 p.m.
Practicing Peace

• Alice Lynd, reading: Dorothy Day
  • "Little by Little"
• Sr. Paulette Schroeder (bio)
  • Walking in the Sandals of My Palestinian Friends...Determined to Know the Truth and Act
• Dr. Asma Abdel-Halim (bio)
  • on peacebuilding in Sudan
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator

Session 5
  3:30 p.m.
Teaching peace

• Dr. Cynthia Jo Ingham, reading: Colman McCarthy
  • "I'd Rather Teach Peace"
• Prof. Dale Snauwaert (bio)
  • The Fundamentals of Peace Education in a Democratic Society
• Prof. Marc Simon (bio)
  • on peace studies
• Prof. Ashley Pryor (bio)
  • Peaceful Sustainability
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator

Dinner Break, 5:15 p.m.

(Libbey Hall will remain open.)

Session 6
  6:00 p.m.
Workshop: Learning Nonviolence

• Dr. Sudershan Pasupuleti, reading: Mohandas Gandhi
  • "My Faith in Nonviolence"
• Josie Setzler (bio)
  • Nonviolence Practice: An Exercise

Session 7
  7:00 p.m.
Choosing Peace

• C. David DeBenedetti: Remembering Charles DeBenedetti
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• Mike Ferner, Interim Exec. Dir. of Veterans for Peace (bio)
  • Exploring Civil Disobedience and Civil Resistance
• Staughton Lynd, independent scholar (bio)
  • Saying No in a Volunteer Army
• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator