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Augsburg Now: Peace Prize Forum
Winter 1999, Vol. 61, No. 2
Peace Prize Forum
The 11th Annual Peace Prize Forum-Striving for Peace: The Morality and Machinery of Modern Conflict-is being held at Augsburg College Feb. 19-20. Discover what top leaders in peacemaking are thinking and doing to bring morality and machinery together. To register, call Betty Arnold at (612) 330-1171 or e-mail her at arnold@augsburg.edu.
Speakers
Jody Williams
Steve Goose
Larry Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Jan Egeland
John Hamre, Ph.D.
Honorable Robert A. Flaten
Rebecca Larson, Ph.D.
Gunnar Stålsett
Knut Vollebæk
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1999 Peace Prize Forum Speakers
Jody Williams
1997 Nobel Co-Laureate
Jody Williams is the founding coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and is the chief strategist and spokesperson for the campaign. Working in an unprecedented cooperative effort with governments, U.N. bodies, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, the ICBL established an international treaty in 1997 banning antipersonnel landmines. She was invited to serve as technical adviser to the UN Study of the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. Prior to starting the ICBL, Williams worked with several projects, developing and directing humanitarian efforts in medicine and education to Central America.
Steve Goose
Representing the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1997 Nobel Co-Recipient
Steve Goose is the program director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based, non-governmental, human rights organization. Human Rights Watch is one of the founders of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Goose serves on the 15-member Coordinating Committee of the ICBL and is chair of its Treaty Working Group. He is also the senior adviser to the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines. Prior to this, Goose was an associate on the House Appropriations sub-committee on Foreign Operations and has also served as senior research analyst at the Center for Defense Information.
Larry Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
Holding memberships with the American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Ethics, and the International Bonhoeffer Society, Larry Rasmussen has an extensive background of lectureships, guest professorships, and publications. Prior to 1986, Rasmussen was a professor of Christian Social Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Courses recently taught include The History of Christian Ethics, Ministry to Social Systems, Environmental Racism, Jesus and Power, and Ecology and Ethics in the Hood. He is the recipient of the 1997 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for Earth Community, Earth Ethics.
Jan Egeland
Special Adviser to the Norwegian Red Cross and International Peace Research Institute of Oslo
Jan Egeland was state secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1997. In that capacity, he co-initiated and co-organized the Norwegian channels between Israel and the PLO in 1992, which led to the Oslo peace agreement of September 1993. He directed Norwegian facilitation of numerous peace talks leading up to the cease-fire agreement between the Guatemalan government and the URNG guerillas. Egeland is currently working with U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on conciliation efforts for Cyprus and as adviser to the president of Colombia on the emerging peace process in that country.
John Hamre, Ph.D.
Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense
Prior to assuming duties as the deputy secretary, John Hamre served as the comptroller and principal assistant to the secretary of defense for the preparation, presentation, and execution of the defense budget and management improvement programs. Hamre served for 10 years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. During this time he was primarily responsible for the oversight and evaluation of procurement, research and development programs, and was the liaison with the Senate Appropriations Committee on defense budget issues. He is a graduate of Augustana College.
Honorable Robert A. Flaten
Chair, Peace Prize Forum Executive Committee
Robert Flaten was the U.S. ambassador to Rwanda from 1990 to 1995. From his home in Northfield, Minnesota, he works with the Nobel Institute to honor and promote the work of nobel laureates. A St. Olaf graduate, he has held several positions in the State Department, including director of affairs for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, where he helped negotiate the Soviet troop withdrawal. A former senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, he examined the role of democratic institutions in the development and implementation of foreign policy in several countries.
Rebecca Larson, Ph.D.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
A native of Canada, Rebecca Larson is secretary for research and development education in the Department for World Service of the Lutheran World Federation. She earned a master's degree in religion and culture from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada; an M.Div. from Waterloo Theological Seminary; and a Ph.D. in development education from the University of Calgary. Her doctorate focused on how to educate churches for political involvement in issues relating to international development. In 1981 Larson was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.
Gunnar Stålsett
Bishop of Oslo and Member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
Gunnar Stålsett served as general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva from 1985-94. Prior to that he was general secretary of the Church of Norway Council on Foreign Relations.
Knut Vollebæk
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State)
Knut Vollebæk has been extensively involved in foreign affairs through a variety of positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-secretary general for development cooperation, director general department of bilateral development cooperation, state secretary, executive officer, and senior executive officer. He has also been assigned to various embassies in New Delhi, Madrid, and Harare.
1999 Peace Prize Forum Program at Augsburg
- Friday, Feb. 19
- 11 a.m. Registration - Christensen Center Lobby
- 1 p.m. Opening Ceremony and First Plenary Session:
"Just Peacemaking: Recent Christian Revisions" - Larry Rasmussen, Ph.D.
- 3:15 p.m. Concurrent workshops
- 4:45 p.m. Dinner of Thanksgiving for participating colleges
- 7 p.m. Second Plenary Session: "The Campaign to End Landmines: From Vision to Reality"
"The Ban Treaty and Beyond: Undiminished Momentum" - 1997 Nobel laureates Jody Williams and Steve Goose representing the ICBL
- Saturday, Feb. 20
- 8:45 a.m. Third Plenary Session:
"The Secrets of the Oslo Channels - Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the
Middle East, Central America and the Balkans - Jan Egeland
- 10:15 a.m. Worship Service - The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Larson
- 11:15 a.m. Seminar I
- 12:15 p.m. Lunch
- 1:30 p.m. Seminar II
- 3 p.m. Fourth Plenary Session:
"Original Sin: Violence Among Nations and the Moral Responsibilities
of Democracies" - John Hamre, Ph.D.
- 4:30 p.m. Closing Ceremony and Call to Action
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