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To the listed presenters: Thank you for your willingness to share your work with PJSA. Please note when your panel is, and who else is on your panel. Email addresses have been provided so that you can communicate in advance about the substance and logistics of your panel. If we assign a moderator to your panel, he or she will contact you. We would encourage you and your panel-mates to see that the titles of papers and panels are as clear, descriptive and interesting as you can make them , to help conference attendees choose to attend your panel. We have left many panels temporarily without titles, so that the panel participants may decide among themselves on an appropriate title. Please email pjsa2004@manhattan.edu if there are any changes, errors or missing information.

Thursday

10:00 - 5:00pm PJSA Board meeting
6:00 - 7:00pm Welcome reception, sponsored by The Peace and Justice Coalition, a USF student organization
7:00pm Film, "Thirst" a film on the privatization of water.
http://www.thirstthemovie.org
http://www.pbs.org/pov/thirstilm



Friday

9:00 - 11:00am     Plenary Session A:
  Spreading World Disorder, Growing World Polarization: The Case of the Americas Moderator: Jeff Paris, USF
  • Gonzalo Santos (Professor of Historical Social Science, CSU Bakersfield, author of “Global Singularities, Repetitive Diversities: The Conundrum of Peoplehood in the XXI-Century World-System”), Gonzalo_Santos@firstclass1.csubak.edu
  • Eduardo Mendieta (Associate Professor of Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, author of Thinking from the Underside of History), emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
  • Ramon Grosfoguel (Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, author of Colonial Subjects), grosfogu@uclink.berkeley.edu
11:15 -12:45pm    Concurrent Sessions
      Panel A1 Forgiveness and Reconciliation Moderator: Carol Rank
  Toleration, Identity, and Reconciliation
  Interpersonal and Political Perspectives on Forgiveness and Reconciliation
  Globalization and Truth Commissions
  The Globalization of Mercy: the Role of Forgiveness and Apologies in International Relations
      Panel A2 Directions for the Study of Peace and Justice Moderator: Kathy Nasstrom nasstromk@usfca.edu
  Organizing Peace Studies at the Statewide Level: A Brief History of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
  The Ivory Tower and Globalization: How our Campuses Can Contribute to Peace, Justice and Human Rights
  Human Rights in the College Classroom
  Human Rights Education: the Moving Image
  • Rachel May, University of Washington rmay@u.washington.edu 
  • Glenda Pearson, Human Rights Librarian, UW Libraries
      Panel A3 Social Justice in a Research Based Psychology Curriculum Moderator: Maureen O¹Sullivan, Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco
  Compassion research in the undergraduate curriculum
  • Maureen O¹Sullivan, Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco osullivan@usfca.edu
Who will help Grandma?
  • Matthew Raichart, University of San Francisco BA, 2004
Bridging the generation gap in the classroom
  • Lisa Wagner, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco wagnerl@usfca.edu
Who is responsible for stopping domestic violence?
  • Susan Heidenreich, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco heidenreich@usfca.edu
      Panel A4 Resisting War, Resisting Racism: Where and How They Meet Moderator: Jim Haber, War Resisters League West, wrlwest@riseup.net 
   
  • Mandy Carter is Director of Southerners on New Ground, and has been a grassroots
    organizer for civil and human rights for over thrity years
  • Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Author of 500 Years of Chicano History, and De Colores Means All of Us
  • Matt Meyer, PJSA Co-Chair and co-author of Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation
      Panel A5 The Case for Prison Abolition Organized by: The National Staff of Critical Resistance
 
Critical Resistance's mission is to abolish the prison industrial complex by building safe and whole communities that rely on alternatives to prisons and punishment.
 
  • Rose Braz, CR¹s Director, is a criminal defense attorney rose@criticalresistance.org
  • Sitara Nieves, local Bay Area Organizer for Critical Resistance
  • Rachel Herzing is CR¹s National Field Organizer
      Panel A6 Gendering Perspectives in Education and Legislation Moderator: Cecilia Santos santos@usfca.edu
  Feminism and Militarism: The Challenges of Globalizing Pedagogies for Peace
  International Criminal Court: Introducing Gender Perspective in International Legislation
  Baring Witness and Other Daring Acts: Women's Nonviolent Direct Action for Peace (slide presentation and discussion)
      Panel A7 Physical and Structural Violence Moderator: Susana Kaiser kaisers@usfca.edu
 
  Public Memory and Political Violence: The Echoes of September 11
The Paradox of Repression
  • Lester R. Kurtz, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin
  • Lee A. Smithey, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College Lsmithe1@swarthmore.edu

 

  The Fire This Time: A Denial of Violence in Development Theory
      Panel A8 Paths to Peace Moderator: Sudarshan Kapoor, California State University, Fresno
  Toward a Nonviolent International Police Force
  Municipal Peace Identity: the Case of Coventry, England
  Interfaith Dialogue as a route to peace
  Universal Values for a Better World?
      Panel A9 Issues for Peace Education Moderator: Tom Cavanaugh, University of San Francisco


 
Applying the Theory of Dehumanization in Education
  • Olek Netzer, PhD. Israel
  Contra Huntington: The Importance of Bilingual Education
  • Rachele Lawton, Community College of Baltimore County
 

Friday Lunch   12:45 - 2:00pm 

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2:00 - 3:30pm      Concurrent Sessions
      Panel B1  Re-writing Empire Moderator: John Gershman, Ph.D., Co-Director, Foreign Policy in Focus and Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
  Reflecting Empire: The Lens of the Philippine-American War
  • Jorge Emmanuel, PhD, President, The Environmental & Engineering Research Group
  Beyond Benevolent Assimilation: The Emperor's New Clothes
  • John Gershman, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus
  Discussion
  • Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Theology and Culture, New York Theological Seminary ruiz35@comcast.net 
      Panel B2 Studying/Serving Abroad Moderator: Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College
  Development of a Peace Personality: Studying Abroad as precursor or successor
  • Christine Hansvick, Pacific Lutheran University Hansvick@plu.edu
  • Ashley Harron, University of Washington
  • Ryan Zimmerman, Pacific Lutheran University
  To Heaven with Better Intentions: An Ongoing Reappraisal of Service Immersion Programs
      Panel B3 Transnational Women’s Organizing for Peace and Genuine Security Moderator: Michiko Hase, University of Colorado, Boulder
   
  • Don Mee Choi, East Asia-US-Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism
  • Yoko Fukumura, UC Santa Cruz
  • Gwyn Kirk, Mills College gwyn@igc.org
  • Martha Matsuoka, UCLA
      Panel B4 Teaching about Race and Racism Moderator: Ronald Sundstrom rrsundstrom@usfca.edu
  When Race Breaks Out: Promoting Conversations about Race and Racism
  Teaching White Suburbanite Students about race relations
      Panel B5 The Impact of the International Community on Human Rights and Security  
  International Human Rights Protection in Situations of Conflict and Post Conflict: A Case Study of Angola
  Globalization and Security: Turkey’s relations with the European Union
  Reparations and Debt Cancellation for the Impoverished African Diaspora
  • Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at,  American Friends Service Committee
  International Human Rights Accompaniment in a Colombian War Zone
  • Sarah Weintraub, Fellowship of Reconciliation
      Panel B6 Prisoners, Human Rights and the Rule of Law  
Enemy Combatants and Guantanamo: The Rule of Law and the Law of War Post 9/11
Internment and the Lawless Case in Ireland, 1957-62
Political prisoners and torture: from Attica to Guantanamo to Abu Graib
      Panel B7 Social Norms and Outsider Cultures Moderator: Marco Jacquemet mjacquemet@usfca.edu
  Throwaway Subcultures: Transnational Gangs and Migrant Youth
  Diversity in the Classroom: the headscarf controversy in European Schools
  Living Mindfully Inside the Matrix: A Social Analysis of Systemic Violence Embedded in U.S. Culture
      Panel B8 Political Resistance & Nonviolent Movements Moderator: Cris Toffolo, University of St. Thomas
  Incorporating International Law into Domestic Social Movements
  From Techniques to Repertoires: Studying Nonviolent Action in World Politics
  Politics of Resistance to Globalization in Latin America
     Panel B9      Roundtable: Community-Based Peace Centers: Common Goals but different Models, or common models but different goals? Discussion Leaders: Cynthia and Buff Whitman-Bradley, Marin Peace and Justice Coalition
     
      Panel B10 The Crisis in Palestine Organized by Mark Lance Lancem@georgetown.edu
Militarization, Globalization and the Greater Middle East Initiative
  • Mitchell Plitnick, Director of Education and Policy, Jewish Voice for Peace
3:45 - 5:45 pm   Plenary Session B
  Globalization and Peace Studies through African Eyes Co-moderators:
Heather Hoag, chair of the USF African Studies Department
Matt Meyer, PJSA Co-Chair and co-author of Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation
  • Horace G. Campbell, Professor of African American Studies, Syracuse University; acclaimed author of Reclaiming Zimbabwe
  • Paulos Tesfagiougis, Director of Justice Africa; former chief researcher for the Constititional Commission of Eritrea; recipient of the 2003 Rafto Prize for Human Rights
  • Elavie Ndura, Assistant Professor of Mulicultural Education, Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies, University of Nevada at Reno; former high school teacher
  • Amowi Sutherland Phillips, Professor of African Studies, Whitworth College; Director of the Mmofra Foundation of Ghana
6:30 pm              PJSA Awards dinner       * Reservations for banquet need to be made by October 10th.

Saturday
 
9:00 - 11:00 am  Plenary Session C
  Globalization and Nonviolence Moderator: Michael Nagler, author of “The Search for a Nonviolent Future.”
  • Mandy Carter is Director of Southerners on New Ground, and has been a grassroots organizer for civil and human rights for over thrity years. A former staff person for the War Resisters League, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum, Carter is a member of the Women of Color and Allies Summit Speakers Bureau of the National Organization for Women.
  • Manfred Steger, author of “Judging Nonviolence: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists.” And “Globalization: A Very Short Introduction”
  • Rachel MacNair, author of “The Psychology of Peace.”
  • Mubarak Awad, founder and Director of Nonviolence International, and founder and Director-in-exile of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence in Jerusalem. Director of the National Youth Advocate Program.
11:15 - 12:45pm Concurrent sessions
      Panel C1 December 31, 2004: The end of the United Nations Decade of Indigenous Peoples. What’s Next? Organizer: Mariana Leal Ferreira
The History of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations
  • Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, California State University at Hayward
Human Rights Violations in the Global Mining Economy
  • Manuel Pino, Scottsdale Community College
Ethnocide: the historic origins of racist discriminatory US policies and practices since colonial times
  • Alberto Saldomando, International Indian Treaty Council
The Working Group on Indigenous Peoples
  • Antonio Gonzales, International Indian Treaty Council
Environmental Justice and the Politics of Erasure in California: The challenges of Territory, Property, and the Restoration of Native Lands
  • Melissa K. Nelson, San Francisco State University
The Color Red: Fighting with Flowers and Fruits in Xavante Territory, Central Brazil
  • Mariana L. Ferreira, San Francisco State University
      Panel C2 Some Critical Themes in Peace Studies Moderator: Nancy Hanawi
A Kinder Gentler History: Re-evaluating Historical Education
Got Gender? Why and How should gender be included in peace studies and/or conflict resolution studies?
  • Nancy Hanawi, co-chair of PJSA Board
On the Relationship between Peace Education and Environmental Education
      Panel C3  Peacebuilding Amidst Diversity Moderator: Dean Johnson, Goshen College

 
Multiculturalism and Diversity: Overcoming Conflicts between Rights
Role of Women in Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Efforts: Afghanistan
      Panel C4 Re-visioning Solidarity in the 21st Century Moderator/Discussant: John Gershman, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Co-Director, Foreign Policy in Focus
Re-visioning Solidarity in the 21st Century
  • Francis Calpotura
  All that is Solid Melts into Air: Solidarity Revisited
  • Lester Edwin J. Ruiz, Ph.D. Associate Dean and Professor of Theology and Culture, New York Theological Seminary ruiz35@comcast.net
  Discussion
  • Christine Leano, Ayal Foundation
      Panel C5 Language, Literature and Violence Moderator: Pedro Lange-Churion
“We wish to Inform you . . .”
Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday in the Pool in Kigali
What Poetry Can Tell Us About the Cultures of Violence and Nonviolence
Holy Words, Holy War: The Rhetoric of Super-Patriotism
      Panel C6 Prisons: The Infrastructure of Globalization Moderator, Jeff Paris, University of San Francisco
  • Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco paris@usfca.edu
  • Ryan Byars, San Francisco State University
  • Burton-Rose, co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement, and The Celling of America
      Panel C7 Turning Coursework into Community Service: Four Case Studies of Social Justice in Higher Education Moderator: Shawny Anderson, St. Mary’s College, California






 
 
  • Alejandro Mercado, student, St. Mary’s College, California
  • Chantal Jenkins, student, St. Mary’s College, California
  • Lizette Ortiz, student, St. Mary’s College, California
  • Suzie Swift, student, St. Mary’s College, California
      Panel C8 Models for and From Conflict Resolution  
A Stage Model of Cooptation and the Community Mediation Movement
  • Patrick Coy, Kent State University pcoy@kent.edu
  • Timothy Hedeen
Conflict Resolution, Peace and Peace Studies
  • Oscar Goodman
      Panel C9 Psychology & Peace Moderator, Joanie Connors, PJSA Board member jconnors@highstream.net
Psychology within and Against Corporate Globalization
Understanding Peace Through Systems Theory
  • Joanie Connors jconnors@highstream.net
Securing Peace Among ‘Traumatized’ Children: Critical Reflections on Psychological Interventions in Post-Conflict Situations
  • Alison Howell, York University, Canada
      Panel C10 Torture, Pornography and the Reactions of the American Public Moderator: Jacqueline Taylor jtaylor2@usfca.edu
The Pornography of War