Month: March 2012
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Smithey Explores Conflict Transformation in Award-Winning Book
In his new book Unionists, Loyalists, and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland, Associate Professor of Sociology Lee Smithey discusses how grassroots movements have transformed the conflicts in Northern Ireland. The book, which launched earlier this month at the Parliament Buildings of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont, recently received the Donald Murphy Book Prize for…
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Ian Kysel ’04 on Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union
Ian Kysel ’04 will speak on Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday, March 27, 2012; 5:30pm in Science Center room 183 at Swarthmore College Ian Kysel is the Aryeh Neier Fellow with Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union where he focuses on the solitary confinement of youth held…
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Peace and Protest: Nigerian Civil War Activism and the 1960s Milieu
“Peace and Protest: Nigerian Civil War Activism and the 1960s Milieu” A Lecture by Brian McNeil (University of Texas, at Austin, 2010 Moore Fellow) Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:00 p.m. Keith Room, Lang Center for Social Change Swarthmore College Co-sponsored by the Friends Historical Library and the Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Prof. Dominic Tierney Launches Iran War Clock
It’s 10 Minutes to Midnight: Political Scientist Dominic Tierney Launches Iran War Clock by Susan Clarey 3/15/2012 [original post from Swarthmore College News and Information http://www.swarthmore.edu/x35177.xml] Three students – Jonathan Emont ’12, Lorand Laskai ’13, and James Mao ’12 – provided essential research assistance. TheAtlantic.com recently launched The Iran War Clock created and directed by Dominic Tierney, associate…
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Bayard Rustin, Angelic Trouble Maker?
Bayard Rustin, Angelic Trouble Maker? Film Screening of Brother Outsider Followed by discussion with Filmmaker Harold Weaver Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:30 p.m. Science Center 199 Swarthmore College A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in…
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Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam
Award-winning historian and former Swarthmore College president Theodore “Dorie” Friend will discuss his recently published book Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam on Tues., Mar. 13, 2012, at 4:30 p.m. in the Scheuer Room of Kohlberg Hall on the Swarthmore College campus. The event is free and open to the public. In Woman,…
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The Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Role of the United States in Resolving It
The Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Role of the United States in Resolving It, a talk by Norman Finkelstein Wednesday, 3/14/12 4:30 p.m. Science Center 101 Norman Finkelstein is a political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by…
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Engaging Peace Conference @ Arcadia
Announcing the “Engaging Peace” Conference, a collaborative event offered by Arcadia University and The Peace Center. Friday, March 23 – Saturday, March 24, 2012 Check-in opens 5:00 PM Friday evening and Saturday morning at 7:30 AM. Arcadia University 450 S. Easton Rd. Glenside, PA 19038 (Greater Philadelphia Area) For detailed information & to register: www.arcadia.edu/engagingpeace…
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Prof. Lakey to walk across Pennsylvania
Photo: m.gifford via flickr The Philadelphia City Paper reports that our own Prof. George Lakey is to walk across Pennsylvania to protest PNC Bank financing mountaintop-removal coal mining. You can also follow his regular column at Waging Nonviolence.
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One Year through the Egyptian Revolution
Egyptian activists Ahmed Salah and Mahitab Elgilani shared their experiences in planning and participating in the Egyptian Revolution with the Swarthmore community on February 20, 2012. They spoke about the challenges and successes they have had in the January 2011 protests in Tahrir Square. “There have been many groups [that have made] an impossible movement…