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          Kroc Institute student peace conference set for March 31-April 1

          
            
              
                
                Published: March 27, 2006
              

              
                Author: Michael O. Garvey
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

The University of Notre Dames Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies will host an international conference on the consequences of war for youth and society Friday and Saturday (March 31 and April 1) in theHesburghCenterfor International Studies.

The conference,Voices of Today, Changes for Tomorrow,has been planned and directed by Notre Dame peace studies undergraduate students as one of an annual series sponsored by the Kroc Institute.Last years conference drew 215 undergraduate students from colleges and universities nationwide as well as from schools inBelgium,GermanyandSouth Africa.

Two Chinese filmmakers, Jian Yi and Wu Weguang, will give a presentation to this years conference on their recent project in ruralChina, encouraging young men and women to record their daily lives and their efforts to promote self-governance. Jian Yi is a 1998 graduate of the Kroc Institutes masters program.

We hope that Mr. Jian and Mr. Wu will give an inspiring testimony on how young individuals can be empowered to work for change through nonviolent means in a country that has violently put down calls for democratic reform in the past,said conference chair and Notre Dame senior Kevin Walsh.

Other conference speakers will include Myla Leguro, visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute and peace and reconciliation manager for Catholic Relief Services in Davao City, the Philippines; Rashied Omar, coordinator of the Kroc Institutes Research Initiative on the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict and the Program on Religion, Conflict andPeacebuilding; and Kim Overdyck, director of the Take Ten Program, a nationwide effort to teach children alternatives to violence.

Further information and a conference schedule are available from the conference Web site at http://kroc.nd.edu/events/voicestoday06.shtml

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