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The 12th Annual Peace Prize Forum: Striving for Peace: Risk and Reconciliation Augsburg News Service 
The 12th Annual Peace Prize Forum, will be held February 18-19 at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, Minn. The forum will honor the work of John Hume and David Trimble, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, as it focuses attention on the motivations for peace and the painstaking process of reconciliation. This Peace Prize Forum considers the issue of wars within borders by looking at the roots of ethnic and partisan hostility and by asking how people can reconcile with enemies close to home. It explores issues of religion and peace, especially the risks that religious belief calls us to assume. It also examines strategies for peace, both personal and political, that provide all of us an arena for action. The forum is offered through a partnership of the Midwest Norwegian-Lutheran colleges - Augsburg, Augustana (Sioux Falls), Concordia (Moorhead), Luther and St. Olaf - in cooperation with the Norwegian Nobel Institute. It creates an opportunity for Nobel Peace Prize laureates, diplomats, scholars, students and the general public to take part in a dialogue on the underlying causes and manifestations of conflict and war in modern society, and on the dynamics of peacemaking. Other speakers at the forum will be Professor Sissela Bok, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies; the Rev. Dr. J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard Divinity School; Professor Paul Arthur, University of Ulster and a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and John and Janet Wallach, who spent six months living in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in 1987. For information and a schedule of events, visit the Web site or contact Deb Hutterer, (612) 330-1637. |
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