Concurrent Sessions
3 - 5 p.m. |
Continuing Conversation with Davar
Ardalan Davar Ardalan, NPR Supervisory Producer - Morning Edition overnight,
will speak about her work with NPR from breaking news to documentary-style
features. She will discuss the wide array of topics she had covered
with a particular focus on the Islam, Iran, and the Middle East.
This session will include an extended Q and A period with Ms Ardalan.
|
| Site visits to peace and human rights organizations -
Mary Laurel True
The focus of this session
will be to introduce participants to several
Twin Cities organizations whose mission is directly related to
peace and human rights. –Center for Victims of Torture,
Resource Center of the Americas, St. Martin‚s Table & Community
of St. St. Martins, and the Cedar Riverside neighborhood, home
of thousands of immigrant refugees. The session will be limited
to 20 people visiting each organization. Participants will walk
or ride public transportation to each site.
|
From the Middle East to the Sudan: The Role
of Small States in Conflict Resolution, Terje Rød-Larsen
with a panel of Swedish and Norwegian diplomats. The panel of will discuss the unique role the states of Norway
and Sweden have played in international diplomacy, cooperation
and peacemaking in the hundred years since Norway's peaceful
transition to independence from Sweden.
|
|
Building peace in the aftermath of war, Chair,
Jack Tunheim, US District Judge, with Dr. Khalil Dokhanchi, Prof.
of Political Science, and other panelists TBA. Panelists will focus on a range of issues that must be addressed
as societies move from a period of armed conflict or civil
disturbance to rebuilding civil society. Speakers will focus
on building
the judicial system, dismantling armaments and land mines,
and establishing respect for human rights.
|
| Democracy and the New World Order, Chair,
President William Frame, with Robert H. Rewoldt, founder of Peace
Race International, and other panelists TBA. The panel will address the opportunities and challenges of
democratic change in the emerging world order. Panelists will
speak about
the multiple forms of democracy including direct democracy
and the resistance to democratization. Following presentations
by each
of the panelists they will respond to questions from the session
participants.
|
