The Peace Education Center invites you to attend the following upcoming colloquia:
Peace Learning in Conflict Transformation
with distinguished visiting international scholar

Magnus Haavelsrud

Thursday, March 23, 2006
12:00-1:30pm
Teachers College, Columbia University
Room to be announced
(525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam)

NO RSVP REQUIRED

Professor Haavelsrud will lead all in a discussion exploring aspects of how harmony between individual behavior and contextual conditions are created in conflict transformations through changes in both. Special attention will be given to the role of peace education in facilitating peace learning in conflict transformation.

Magnus Haavelsrud is a Professor of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His work deals with the critique of the reproductive role of education and the possibilities for transcendence of this reproduction in light of the traditions of educational sociology and peace research. He took part in the creation of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association at the beginning of the 70’s and served as the Commissions 2nd Executive Secretary 1975-79. He was the Program Chair for the World Conference on Education in 1974 and edited the proceeding from this conference entitled Education for Peace: Reflection and Action. He served as the Carl-von-Ossietzky Guest Professor of the German Council for Peace and Conflict Research. His publications include: Education in Developments (1996), Perspektiv i utdanningssosiologi ( Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (1997, 2nd edition), Education Within the Archipelago of Peace Research 1945 - 1964, (co-authored with Mario Borrelli, 1993), Disarming: Discourse on Violence and Peace (editor, 1993) and Approaching Disarmament Education (Editor, 1981)

Life in Occupied Palestine: Eye-Witness Stories & Photos
www.annainthemiddleeast.com
Thursday, March 30, 2006
3:00-4:45 pm
Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Room 363 Grace Dodge

co-sponsored by:
Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University
& Peace Action New York State

Please join us for this presentation by a Columbia University graduate sharing personal experiences, observations, and photographs from five months documenting human rights violations and working with Palestinians and Israelis active in nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. The purpose of the presentation is to provide those interested in the Israel/Palestine conflict with critical information and documentation that can be difficult to obtain through mainstream Western media sources, and to encourage dialogue towards taking action on the issue.

Who: A Jewish-American volunteer for the International Women’s Peace Service; Documenter of human rights violations and supporter of Palestinian & Israeli non-violent movement against the Occupation.

What: Slides, stories, & world-premier of book Witness in Palestine on first-hand experiences with the conflict while living in the West Bank.

Why: To share information difficult to obtain through mainstream media, and to encourage dialogue towards taking action on the issue.

Teachers College is located at 120th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam
For further information on this and other events, please direct inquiries to:
peace-ed@tc.edu or (212) 678-8116
For more information on the Peace Education Center please visit: www.tc.edu/PeaceEd