Conference on Video

Deconstructing a Culture of Violence

Session 1
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
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
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

Constructing a Culture of Peace

Session 4
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
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

Session 6
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 & Alice Lynd, independent scholars (bio)
  • Saying No in a Volunteer Army

• Discussion:
  • Sue Carter, Moderator