“The Agents of Peace: Soldier, Civil Servant, Teacher, Activist.”

Call for Workshop Participants

March 31st, 2007
Nipissing University
North Bay, Ontario
Canada

Purpose of the Workshop:
The purpose of the workshop is to explore various bottom-up and top-down approaches to peace building, keeping and making, towards a better understanding of the conditions of sustainable peace.

The workshop will consist of 3 topic and question-driven roundtable discussions, during the day, and an after-dinner talk by Thomas Homer-Dixon. Essays will be accepted for publication after the event.

If you are interested in attending, please contact:
John Allison
johna@nipissingu.ca

Roundtable topics and questions will include:

• What is the role of education in creating the conditions for sustainable peace?

• What is peace? Is it possible to define peace in its own terms, other than as an opposite condition to war and more fundamentally than as ceasefire?

• What are the responsibilities and potentials for states, interstate organizations, non-governmental organizations and individuals in bringing about peace? What are the relative merits of various forms of peace activism- from peace-keeping and peace-making interventions, to peace-building efforts within communities?

Sponsored by a SSHRC Aid to Small Universities grant.