Educating for Global Peace
spiritual & ethical perspectives on peace & justice

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Please join us for this timely and provocative lecture series exploring spiritual and ethical perspectives on peace and justice towards educating for global peace. The first talk in the series, "ACTING for OTHERS: Spiritual Dimensions of the work of Nobel Peace Laureates." will be June 1, featuring Arthur Zajonc, Professor of Physics at Amherst College and Director of the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society.

ACTING FOR OTHERS:
SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WORK OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES

ARTHUR ZAJONC
Professor of Physics, Amherst College; Director, Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Thursday, June 1. 7-9pm.
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University (Milbank Chapel - 125 Main)
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Based on the study of twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners, this presentation will examine the degree to which these individuals were sustained and guided by deep ethical and spiritual resources. In interviews and writings, time and again they speak of others with whom and for whom they worked, which underscores the importance of community. During dark times of imprisonment and torture as well as in periods of success, the Nobel laureates placed their suffering and actions within a larger spiritual context, which acted as an inner basis for sustaining sanity and even compassion under terrible circumstances. Again and again the violence they experienced was answered by the power of nonviolence. Through examples, these and similar characteristics of the important work of Nobel peace laureates will be used as a window into the deeper ethical and spiritual sources of peace work.

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ARTHUR ZAJONC
Arthur Zajonc is professor of physics at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and the universities of Rochester, and Hannover. He has been Fulbright professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His research has included studies in parity violation in atoms, the experimental foundations of quantum physics, and the relationship between sciences, the humanities and contemplation. He has written extensively on Goethe’s science. He is author of the book: Catching the Light, co-author of The Quantum Challenge, and co-editor of Goethe’s Way of Science. In 1997 he served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogue with H.H. the Dalai Lama published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (Oxford 2004). He again organized the 2002 dialogue with the Dalai Lama, “The Nature of Matter, the Nature of Life,” and acted as moderator at MIT for the “Investigating the Mind” dialogue in 2003 (www.mindandlife.org). He currently directs the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in higher education. He has also been General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America (1994-2002), co-founder of the Kira Institute (www.kira.org), president of the Lindisfarne Association, and a senior program director at the Fetzer Institute. He is currently writing a book on the peace work of twelve Nobel peace laureates.

~ free and open to the public ~ RSVP requested ~
Please note that lectures will take place at different venues.
Please contact the Peace Education Center for additional detail and to RSVP.
email: peace-ed@tc.edu / phone: (212) 678-8116

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Thursday, June 1. 7-9pm
ACTING FOR OTHERS:
SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF THE WORK OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
ARTHUR ZAJONC
Professor of Physics, Amherst College; Director, Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University (Milbank Chapel - 125 Main Hall)

Saturday, November 4. 1-3pm
EDUCATING FOR PEACE AT THE LEVEL OF OUR DEEP HUMANITY
PATRICIA MISCHE
Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and World Law, Antioch College; Visiting Professor, School of International Service, American University; Co-founder and current President , Global Education Associates
Location: The Riverside Church

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Co-Sponsors
The Peace Education Center seeks to provide learning opportunities to inform wider public and academic audiences about critical and timely peace related issues. Peace related concerns are the concerns of all members of the human community. The Peace Education Center is pleased to work with several co-sponsors, from various disciplines and vocations, in the planning of this lecture series. Please take the time to introduce yourself to the work of our co-sponsors by clicking the links below.

Barnard Education Program; Biosophical Institute; The Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Fordham University's Graduate School of Education; Global Education Associates; International Center for Tolerance Education; Peace Boat USA; Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding; Teachers College - Forum on the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Education, Office of Diversity and Community, and Office of the Vice President and Dean of the College; Temple of Understanding; The Riverside Church Mission and Social Justice Department