Conference Photos

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

Chadwick Alger, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and
Public Policy, Mershon Center for International Security Studies,
welcomed participants to Saturday's Peace Matters conference.

Audience members listened and took notes during the Saturday session of the Peace Matters conference at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Panelists and audience members raised their hands as Maggie Lewis (center), Associate Director, Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management, asked who had heard of her organization. Other panelists included (left to right) Chadwick Alger, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy, Mershon Center for International Security Studies; Julie Hart, Reservist, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace and Justice Studies, Ohio Dominican University; David Jehnsen, Chair and Founding Trustee, Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities; Rev. Deb Oskin, President, Central Ohioans for Peace; and Rev. Christopher Cottrell, Director of the Interfaith Center for Peace.

Session 3 brought together peace practitioners and academics for dialogue. Among those included (left to right) were Julie Hart, Reservist, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace and Justice Studies, Ohio Dominican University; David Jehnsen, Chair and Founding Trustee, Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities; Maggie Lewis, Associate Director, Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management; and 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.

Session 3 brought together peace practitioners and academics for dialogue. Among those included (left to right) were Antoinette Errante, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, School of Educational Policy and Leadership, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University; Matthew Evangelista, Director, Peace Studies Program, and Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University; Rev. Deb Oskin, President, Central Ohioans for Peace; and Rev. Christopher Cottrell, Director of the Interfaith Center for Peace.

Joyce Neu, Executive Director, Joan B. Kroc Institute for
Peace & Justice, and Professor of Practice, University of San Diego,
spoke on "Using Conflict Transformation Theory in Practice."
Among other things, she discussed her experiences working
with former President Jimmy Carter to negotiate peace
agreements while at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Audience members listen and take notes during Joyce Neu's presentation at the Peace Matters conference on Saturday, May 11, at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

A group of students from Linworth Alternative Program in Worthington,
Ohio, attended Saturday's session of the Peace Matters conference.
One student asked Joyce Neu about United Nations efforts to stop
trafficking of young women.

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