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Building Cultures of Peace
September 11-14, 2008, Portland State University, Portland, OR

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~ Info on pre-conference CANVAS training, Sept 9-10, 2008 ~

The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) is pleased to announce that its annual conference will be hosted at Portland State University (and in collaboration with the Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium) from September 11-14, 2008 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.

The conference theme of “Building Cultures of Peace” will explore historical, current and potential future elements of the local, regional, national and transnational struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means. Read more about the conference theme....

An online registration form is available here.
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For more information, please contact us at pjsa@usfca.edu.

Confirmed keynote speakers include...

Sami Rasouli, founder and director of Muslim Peacemaker Teams. Sami is coming from Iraq.

Two Hibakusha (survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), coming from Japan.

Betty Reardon, one of the great figures of Peace Education, emeritus from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Kathy Kelly, founder of Voice for Creative Nonviolence.

Col. Ann Wright, 30 years U.S. military and foreign service.

Kayse Jama, founder of Center for Intercultural Organizing.

Catherine Thomasson, M.D., president of the US Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Stella Ting-Toomey, a world expert on intercultural conflict resolution.

Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco Politics professor and co-editor of two books on nonviolence.

Jo Ann Bowman, director of Oregon Action, specializing in political empowerment of the most disenfranchised.

"Bumpy" Pu'uhonua Kanahele, indigenous Hawaiian sovereignty leader sworn to Gandhian methods.