Faculty will speak briefly on a variety of issues, and then open the floor to questions and discussions. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 2013 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM SCHEUER ROOM All students welcome FACULTY PARTICIPANTS: BETSY BOLTON PETER COLLINGS MARK KUPERBERG GIOVANNA DI CHIRO CINDY HALPERN PHILIP JEFFERSON GEORGE LAKEY LEE SMITHEY MARK WALLACE
What a great way to start the spring semester, with Peace and Conflict Studies folks featured on the front page of the college website. The main banner photo shows Swarthmore College Peace Collection curator Dr. Wendy Chmielewski and Miriam Hauser ’13 displaying Jane Addams’ 1931 Nobel Peace Prize Medal. The full story is reproduced below. You will … Continue reading Peace Collection and Prof. Ratzman featured on college website
Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m., Swarthmore Friends Meeting House Join George Lakey (Lang Research Fellow and Visiting Professor), Gwen Snyder ’08, Sharon Gunther, Jonah Schwartz ’15, Jim MacMillan (Independent Journalist and Visiting Professor) as they reflect upon their involvement with the Occupy Movement. This event is sponsored by the Political Science Department, … Continue reading Reflections on the Occupy Movement
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Tawakkul Karman (Yemen); President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia); and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia). Leymah Gbowee spoke here in Philadelphia at Villanova University, and several Swarthmore Peace and Conflict Studies students went to hear her speak with Prof. George Lakey. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee praised the women “for … Continue reading Women and peacebuilding prioritized in Nobel Peace Prize selection
The Phoenix, the student newspaper at Swarthmore College, has covered several stories related to Peace and Conflict Studies recently: Lakey database released ten years after 9/11 On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as a decade of violence from New York City to Afghanistan came to a close, a group of Peace and … Continue reading The Phoenix covers peace and conflict studies
WHAT IF activists around the world who want to be more effective could turn to a database of actual campaigns, to get ideas for creative nonviolent strategies and tactics? WHAT IF scholars and writers who are researching alternatives to violence could turn to a global database with hundreds of cases where people used nonviolent action … Continue reading Announcing the Global Nonviolent Action Database
On Thursday, September 15, Leymah Gbowee is being honored with the 2011 Peace Award at Villanova, and the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and Lang Center are arranging a van to take Swarthmore folk. Please email Prof. George Lakey at glakey1 to reserve a seat (first-come first-served basis). We will meet the van at the … Continue reading Van from Swarthmore to see Leymah Gbowee at Villanova
Swarthmore will mark the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001, with a series of events that will emphasize nonviolent responses to terrorism and other threats. All events are free and members of the public are encouraged to attend. *** SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11: MEMORIAL SERVICE A service of memorial and reflection will be held at the … Continue reading Swarthmore to Mark 10th Anniversary of 9/11 with Emphasis on Nonviolence
WHAT IF activists around the world who want to be more effective could turn to a database of actual cases, to get ideas for creative nonviolent strategies and tactics? WHAT IF scholars and writers who are researching alternatives to violence could turn to a global database with thousands of cases where people used nonviolent action … Continue reading Introducing the Global Nonviolent Action Database – A Fireside Chat on “Contextualizing Egypt in the History of Nonviolent Tactics”
I failed to mention in the previous post about Mairead Corrigan Maguire, that Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary General and 2000-2001 Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change (in Peace and Conflict Studies) at Swarthmore, is also aboard the MV Rachel Corrie on its way to Gaza. Maguire and Halliday are attempting to deliver … Continue reading Denis Halliday former Lang Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies sails for Gaza after Israeli attack on flotilla