Conference Photos

Peace Matters: A Forum on the Discipline and Practice of Peace and Conflict Studies

Participants and audience members prepared for the Peace Matters conference, held May 11-12, 2007, at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. The conference had 15 different presenters and about 90 audience members over the two days.

Friday's Panel 1 was on Core Curriculum and Fundamental Knowledge in Peace Studies.
Chaired by Richard Herrmann (left), Director, Mershon Center for International Security
Studies, it also included (left to right) Pamela Aall, Vice President for Education, United
States Institute of Peace; B. Welling Hall, Professor of Politics and International Studies
and Convener of International Studies, Earlham College, and Policy Committee Recording
Clerk for the Friends Committee on National Legislation; and Patrick G. Coy, Director,
Center for Applied Conflict Management, and Associate Professor, Center for Applied
Conflict Management and Political Science, Kent State University.

George Lopez (at table left), Professor of Political Science
and Senior Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, talked with
Stan Deetz (at table right), Director, Peace and Conflict
Studies Program, and Professor of Communication,
University of Colorado at Boulder, during the discussion.

George Lopez, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow, Joan
B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre
Dame, drew a graph showing the life cycle of international conflict
management, an idea introduced by Michael S. Lund in Preventing
Violent Conflict: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy (USIP, 1996).

Friday's Panel 2 was on Retaining Coherence and Focus in a Multidisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies Program. Chaired in part by Julie Clemens (left), Peace Studies Coordinator at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the panel included (left to right) Matthew Evangelista, Director, Peace Studies Program, and Professor of Government, Cornell University; Joyce Neu, Executive Director, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, and Professor of Practice, University of San Diego; and Stan Deetz, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Friday's Panel 3 was on Innovative Endeavors to Move Peace and Conflict Studies Forward
on U.S. Campuses. Chaired by Richard Herrmann (left), Director, Mershon Center for
International Security Studies, it also included (left to right) Beth Fisher-Yoshida,
Associate Director, International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, Teachers
College, Columbia University; George Lopez, Professor of Political Science and Senior
Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame;
and Kathleen Maas Weigert, Executive Director, Center for Social Justice Research,
Teaching and Service, and Research Professor, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology,
Program on Justice and Peace,Georgetown University.

Joyce Neu, Executive Director, Joan B. Kroc Institute
for Peace & Justice, and Professor of Practice,
University of San Diego, spoke about the challenges of
maintaining focus in a multidisciplinary peace studies program.

Beth Fisher-Yoshida, Associate Director, International
Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution,
Teachers College, Columbia University, spoke about
innovative concepts being taught at her center.

Pamela Aall, Vice President for Education,
United States Institute of Peace, talked
about some of the ways her institute
has conceived of teaching Peace Studies.

Matthew Evangelista (left), Director, Peace Studies Program,
and Professor of Government, Cornell University, and
Chadwick Alger, Professor Emeritus of Political Science
and Public Policy, Mershon Center for International Security
Studies, listened to the discussion.

Audience members listened to the discussion during the Peace Matters conference at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies on Friday, May 11, 2007. The theme for the day's panels was Transcending Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Stan Deetz (foreground at table), Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, and Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, makes a point during the discussion. Looking on are (left to right) David Jehnsen, Chair and Founding Trustee, Institute for Human Rights & Responsibilities, Galena, Ohio; Rev. Deb Oskin, President, Central Ohioans for Peace, Columbus; Maggie Lewis, Associate Director, Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution & Conflict Management, Columbus; and (far right) Kathleen Maas Weigert, Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, and Research Professor in both the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University.

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