PANEL IV-C: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PEACE

• Adma Jeha D’Heur, Mercy College, “The Psychology of Enemy Making”

• Priscilla Prutzman, Judith Johnson, Harmoine Jones and Kathy Cochran, Creative Response to Conflict (CRC), Nyack, NY, “Bias Awareness and Creative Conflict Resolution”

6-7 p.m.    DINNER (on your own)

7-7:50 p.m.    Student Center Theater, North Campus

FILM: TIME TO ABOLISH WAR: PEACE IS A HUMAN RIGHT 

In May 1999, ten thousand people came together in The Netherlands to work for peace and justice at The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference. This 17-minute video documents that conference and the major campaigns which were launched there including Landmines, Women and Peace-building, the International Criminal Court, Small Arms, Peace Education, Nuclear Abolition, Child Soldiers, Poverty and Global Action to Prevent War. The tape also features Archbishop Desmond Tutu, José Ramos-Horta, H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

8 p.m.    Monroe Lecture Center TheaterCalifornia Avenue, South Campus - Hofstra Cultural Center and Hofstra USA Productions present

Voices of Peace (conceived and directed by Bob Spiotto)

This unique, inspiring and theatrical collage pays homage to the heroes of peace, who through their accomplishments and lasting legacy were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Join us and experience the powerful words and ideas of these architects of peace.

Additional performance Friday, November 9, 2001 at 8 p.m.  

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2001

9 a.m. -4:30 p.m.    CONFERENCE REGISTRATION - Lobby, Student Center Theater, North Campus

9:30 - 11 a.m.    PANEL V:  PLENARY SESSION -  STRUGGLE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

Panelists:

• Richard Falk (invited)

• Jonathan Schell                                   

• Edward Said (invited)

• Amy Goodman (invited)                               

10:30 a.m.-Noon    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

PANEL VI-A: RELIGION, TOLERANCE AND PEACE FROM CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, AND MUSLIM PERSPECTIVES

Moderator/Commentator:

• Alan Bentz-Letts, Protestant Chaplaincy, Hofstra University 

Panelists:

• Father Joe D’Angelo, Campus Catholic Parish, Hofstra University

• Mamdouth Farid, Muslim Chaplain, Hofstra University                       

• Rabbi Meir Mitelman, Jewish Chaplain, Hofstra University

• Sister Kathy Riordan, Campus Catholic Parish, Hofstra University

Respondents:    

• Arthur Dobrin, Hofstra University

• Jeffrey Rubin

PANEL VI-B: THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Moderator/Commentator:  

• Nicholas N. Kittrie, American University

Panelists:  

• Hurst Hannum, Tufts University

• William Schabas, Galway, Ireland

• Michael Scharf, New England School of Law

PANEL VI-C: WOMEN AND THE VIETNAM WAR

Moderator/Commentator:

• Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University   

Panelists:

• Avital H. Bloch, University of Colima, Mexico, "American Women Intellectuals Debate the Vietnam War”

• Suzanne K. McCormack, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston College, “‘Part of the Same Movement’: Ann Froines and Eldridge Cleaver’s‘Anti-Imperialist Front’”

• Rachel W. Goossen, Washburn University,  “In the Name of Humanity: Women Protesters Against the Vietnam War”

Noon-1 p.m.    LUNCH        

 1-2:30 p.m.    PANEL VII:  PLENARY SESSION - PEACE AND THE MIDDLE EAST  

Panelists:

•  Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., Midwestern State University, “The Peace that Could Not Be”

•  J. Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco, “The United States Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process"

Respondent:                 

• Phyllis Bennis, UN Rep, Israeli Mission

2:30-4 p.m.    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

PANEL VIII-A: INTEGRATING CONFLICT RESOLUTION INTO THE U.S. HISTORY CURRICULUM

Workshop Leaders:  

• John W. Chambers II, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

• Arlene Gardner, Seton Hall University

PANEL VIII-B: BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE

Panelists:

• Claudia E. Chiesi, Harford Community College

• Sister Rose Bator, Common Ground, Elyria, OH

• Naomi Tutu, Fisk University

PANEL VIII-C: TRIBUNALS AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS -- HOW DO THEY AID THE PEACE BUILDING PROCESS

Panelists:

• Gloria Bletter, New York, NY, “Tribunals and the Search for Restorative Justice”

Respondent:

• Eric Freedman, Lawyers Committee on Human Rights

4-5:30 p.m.    CONCURRENT SESSION

PANEL IX-A: WORKSHOP ON PEACE EDUCATION

Workshop Leader:  

• Janet Gerson, Teachers’ College, Columbia University

PANEL IX-B: INTERNATIONAL CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Panelists:  

• Christopher Borgen, Jr., American Society of International Law, Washington, DC

• Jocelyn McCalla, National Coalition for Haitian Rights, New York, NY

PANEL IX-C: POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE 60s and 70s

Panelists:

• Michael D’Innocenzo, Hofstra University, “Dr. King’s Nobel Prize: A Spur to Global Peace Activism”

• Rick Dodgson, Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio University, "Apolitical, Anti-political, or Differently Political:The Counterculture and Peace Activism in the 1960s"

• Roger L. Solberg, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, “The Great Peace March, 1986”

Respondent:                 

• The Honorable John Lewis (invited), United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC

6:30-9 p.m.    COCKTAIL RECEPTION AND BANQUET

Greetings:

• Stuart Rabinowitz, President, Andrew M. Boas and Mark L. Claster Distinguished Professor of Law, Hofstra Univers

Welcome:

• Linda A. Longmire, Associate Professor of Political Science, New College at Hofstra, Conference Co-director

• Martin Melkonian, Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Geography, Conference Co-director

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001

9 a.m. -3 p.m.   CONFERENCE REGISTRATION - Lobby, Student Center Theater, North Campus

8-9 a.m.            CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9-10:30 a.m.    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

PANEL X-A: RUSSIAN CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS: FROM THE EMPIRE TO LENIN

Moderator/Commentator:  

• Peter Brock, University of Toronto, Canada  

Panelists:

• Nicholas Brenton Breyfogle, The Ohio State University, “Russian Sectarian Antimilitarist Before the Introduction of Universal Military Service (1874)”

• Heather J. Coleman, University of Calgary, Canada, “Baptist Conscientious Objectors During the Russian Civil War”

• Joshua A. Sanborn, Lafayette College, “Pacifist Opposition in Russia to the Great War”

PANEL X-B: COMMUNITY BASED PEACE MOVEMENTS/PEACE ORGANIZATIONS

Panelists:

• Patrick G. Coy, Kent State University, “‘We use it but we try not to abuse it’ Nonviolent Protective Accompaniment and the Use of Ethnicity and Privilege by Peace Brigades International"

• Ilene Feinman, California State University, Monterey Bay, “Practicing Political Community: Living Legacies”

• Dee Garrison, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, “Civil Defense and the Nuclear Dilemma: The Cold War Tragicomedy”

• Robert B. Lepley, Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives, Garden City, NY, “Detailed Analysis of the Root Causes of Poverty, War and Environmental Destruction”

PANEL X-C: NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Panelists:

• Stephanie Fraser, New York, NY, “Nuclear Weapons in Popular Culture: How Anti-Nuclear Activists Can Use Public Sentiment to Further Abolition on Nuclear Weapons”

• Joseph P. Harahan, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Ft Belvoia, VA, “United States and Soviet Union/Russia’s Nuclear Disarmament, 1985-2000"

• David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, “A Global Campaign to Eliminate Nuclear War”

Respondent:                  

• Peter Weiss, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY

10:30 a.m.-Noon    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

PANEL XI-A: PEACE AND THE ARTS

Moderator/Commentator:  

• Shirley Romaine

Panelists:

• Diana Ben-Merre,  New College of Hofstra University, “... Women writing fiction during the 1920s began to Move the experience of war to the domestic realm”

• Renée R. Curry, California State University, Monterey Bay, “Literature and Peace: The Transformative Power of Reading”

• Donna Waller Harper, Antioch, TN, “John Lennon: Rock Star of the Peace Movement”

Respondents:            

• Ian Hall, Bloomsbury International Society for Racial Harmony (Through the Arts and Education), United Kingdom

• Karen Turner, College of the Holy Cross

PANEL XI-B: PEACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Panelists:

• John Esposito, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Colorado, “Water: Harbinger of War or Metaphor of Peace”                  

• Lorna Salzman, Brooklyn, NY, “Ecology and Social Change”         

• Arthur B. Dobrin, Hofstra University, “Wangari Maathi and the Greenbelt Movement”

Respondents:            

• Karl Grossman, SUNY at Old Westbury

PANEL XI-C: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

Panelists:

• Jody Cross-Hansen, New College at Hofstra University, “‘A Most Peculiar Kind of People...’ Conscientious Objectors in World War II”

• Michael W. Hovey, Iona College, “The Refusal to Fight is a Human Right: The Universal Human Right of Conscientious Objection to Military Service

Respondent:            

• Bill McNulty

Noon-1 p.m.    LUNCH (on your own)

1-2:30 P.M.    CONCURRENT SESSIONS

PANEL XII-A: HUMAN RIGHTS

Moderator/Commentator:

• Silvia Federici, Hofstra University

Panelists:  

• John Wilshire-Carrera and Nancy Kelly, Harvard University Immigration and Refugee Clinic

• Ousseina D. Alidou, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

• George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine

• Mario A. Murillo, Hofstra University

PANEL XII-B: PEACE EDUCATION

Panelists:

• Cecilie Reid, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston College, “Educating the Modern Internationalist: Early 20th Century Peace Education”

• Joyce Apsel, Ridgewood, NJ, “Human Rights Today: Integrating Peacemakers and Their Visions into the Curriculum”

Respondent:  

• Joe Fahey, Manhattan College, CUNY