Panel discussions (concurrent sessions,
3–4:30 p.m. only)
Open to students and non-students
FA1. Making
Music, Making Peace: Common Purposes and Shared Skills
FA2. Exporting Peace: Norway’s
Contributions to Global Peace and Justic
FA3. Making Peace with the Earth
around the World
FA4. Not on TV: The Importance
of Diplomacy that Doesn’t Make the News
FA5. Striving for Peace in the
Global Workplace
FA1.
Making Music, Making Peace: Common Purposes and Shared Skills
Phillip Brunelle, artistic director of VocalEssence, ensemble
singers and Chorus
Music-making permeates every culture and engages people of
every persuasion. Many of the skills essential to peace-making are
also essential to music-making: listening, envisioning, mutual trust,
repair, cooperation, collaboration. People who build their capacities
as music-makers are also building their capacities for grassroots
peace-making. In this workshop, Philip Brunelle will explore music
that helps bring a community together by means of demonstration,
group participation and reflection. back
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FA2. Exporting
Peace: Norway’s Contributions to Global Peace and Justice
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former prime minister of Norway
and Director-General 1998-2003 of the World Health Organization
(WHO)
His Excellency, Knut Vollebaek, Ambassador from Norway
Dr. Geir Lundestad, Director, Norwegian Nobel Institute
In areas of conflict around the world today, the country
of Norway and its citizens play a major role as mediators, peacekeepers,
providers of aid and comfort, and as an example of constructive
interaction with other nations. How does a small country (with a
population smaller than that of Minnesota) manage to have such a
large impact? back
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FA3. Making
Peace with the Earth around the World
Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics,
Union Theological Seminary
An illustrated visit to religious communities in the
South Bronx, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, and South Africa that combine
social justice work with environmental well-being in their quest
for a comprehensive peace—for both the land and its peoples.
back
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FA4. Not
on TV: The Importance of Diplomacy that Doesn’t Make the News
The Honorable Julia Chang Bloch, former U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
The Honorable Robert A. Flaten, former U.S Ambassador to Rwanda
The United States maintains diplomatic relations with nations around
the world, some of which are unfamiliar to many Americans until
a political crisis or natural disaster brings it briefly into the
evening news. If a country is not “in the news,” does
that mean all is well? Ambassadors Bloch and Flaten will discuss
how U.S. embassies and consulates work with other countries to support
peaceful approaches to problems. back
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FA5. Striving
for Peace in the Global Workplace
sponsored by the St. Olaf faculty of Social and
Applied Science
Janet Finn, associate professor of social work, University of Montana
Samiha Peterson, professor of sociology, and Naurine Lennox, professor
of social work, St. Olaf College
moderator: Chris Chiappari, Asst Prof of Anthropology, St. Olaf
College
This panel offers a discussion on transforming "Ideals
to Action." Janet Finn reflects on how her research and work
in Montana and Chile bridges the divide between anthropology and
social work. Along with Samiha Peterson, who recently returned from
Egypt, and Naurine Lennox, who spent January in Mexico, they will
describe how they put theories and ideas into practice in addressing
contemporary social problems. back
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