2011 Charles DeBenedetti Peace Conference

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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