The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies,
The Center for Citizen Peace Building, and
International Studies

Invite you to attend:

An Informal Talk on Constructive Engagement with Iran

with

Ali Shakeri
Founding member of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding at the University of California, Irvine

The 2007 Human Security Award Ceremony
sponsored by UCI's Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. 
"How to Change the World"
with
David Bornstein. 

Details about the Center and the lecture are at http://www.cusa.uci.edu.

Jack Miles

Jack Miles, Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies at UCI, won the Pulitzer Prize for God: A Biography and was awarded a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.  He is one of the world’s leading experts on religion and international affairs, serves as general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions and is a former member of the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times. 

“Will the U.S. Be Voted Out of Iraq?"

Summer circus camp for 5 -15 year olds!

The Scarlet Sisters Circus
will be holding a circus camp
Aug 20-24th, 10 a.m. to 12 noon,

We will be teaching trapeze, acrobatic balancing, stilt-walking,
juggling, plate-spinning and putting a show together.

$60 per participant; sibling discount 2/$100.
Limit 25.

To sign up, please email
Jennifer at jenld68@yahoo.com
or call Joy at 949 697-9625.

North Caucasus Muslim Leaders

The Center was visited by prominent Muslim leaders from Russia's North Caucasus who were invited to the United States by the Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program to have an informal conversation about the role of various governmental and non-governmental organizations working to improve the lives of minority populations nationally and locally. They also worked to explore the diversity of views held by Americans, and how this diversity contributes to a dynamic and resilient political system. They also examined how Muslims in the United States have adapted their religious identities and societies to the minority experience in the United States and analyzed how Americans, both through civil society and religious-based organizations, seek to promote peace and cooperation.

MULI PELEG

Muli Peleg is a professor of political communication at the School of communication at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He came to UCI to share his expertise on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.  Dr. Peleg is an expert in conflict and conflict resolution processes. His areas of research and interest are dynamics of war and peace, political violence and terrorism, and the connections between politics, society and culture. Dr. Peleg is known as a long time peace activist. After his military service as a tank commander in the Israeli Army, he became the spokesperson for the Peace Now movement; the initiator of the ’93 Oslo Agreements and the ’04 Geneva Accord. Professor Peleg has been a top advisor on leadership and peace processes for the Peres Center for Peace and the New Israel Fund. Currently, he is the Israeli Co-Chairman of One Voice, a Palestinian-Israeli organization for promotion of dialogue and reconciliation between the two nations.
http://www.idc.ac.il/eng/faculty/details.asp?sid=8843

Conference on Georgian NATO Accession and Potential Impacts on the Georgian-Abkhaz Peace Process
June 12-15, 2007. Istanbul, Turkey
Conference Agenda and Participants

BRUCE HEMMER

PhD candidate; Department of Political Science; UCI; Graduate research fellow for the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding; specializes in the comparative study of the roles of civil society and political culture in democratization and peacebuilding. M.A. in International Relations; Certificate of Achievement in Conflict Resolution from Syracuse University; two years peacebuilding and democratization in Bosnia and Hercegovina, with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and several peacebuilding NGOs.

"Difficult in the Best of Circumstances: Citizen Peacebuilding and Democratization in Northern Ireland"

Professor of politics; course director of the graduate program in peace and conflict studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Senior fellow; United States Institute of Peace; consultant to the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict and the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development.

"The Irish Peace Process and the Changing Political Landscape"

MARY ROBINSON

Former President of Ireland (1990-1997); UN High Commisioner for Human Rights (1997-2002)
"Human Rights and Gloabalization

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the
Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Series the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding will
award her with its Citizen Peacebuilding Prize at the lecture

PEDRO IBARRA

Professor of Political Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Ibarra's main research interests include nationalist theory and nationalist movements, social movements and collective action theory, democracy and participation, and political violence.

"Political Conflict and Violence in the Basque Country"

Youth Orientation to Kingean Non-Violence

Hosted by Soka University
For high school students, college students and adults working with youth.

This CORE Introduction examines the successful use of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy in social change and reconciling conflicts.

For more information, please visit www.uri.edu/nonviolence/

Young Israeli-Palestinian Activists from the OneVoice Movement

Co-sponsored by the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding,
UCI’s Difficult Dialogues Project, The Cross- Cultural Center, Anteaters for Israel, The Society of Arab Students and High Resolution

Sagi Rasmovich
an Israeli from Havatzlet Hasharon, north of Tel Aviv; formerly an instructor at the officer's training academy in the IDF;a student at Netanya College

Dalia Labadi
a Palestinian from from Jenin; graduate from the Arab American University and Al-Quds University; formerly a translator for the Jenin municipality and for Human Rights Watch

Trained by the OneVoice Leadership Program, they will promote an open and
candid discussion about everyday experiences in the region and their
vision for nonviolent resolution of the conflict. They will amplify the
voices of moderates in the region who are desperate to be heard over the
deafening sounds of violence.

Missed this exciting event? Please visit the following link for a video. rtsp://media.nacs.uci.edu/ITC/humanities/Discussions_Events/Discussion.rm

MEDEA BENJAMIN

Founding Director of Global Exchange

This event will be an informal conversation with Medea Benjamin about her organization Global Exchange and its travel opportunities.

Lily Gardner-Feldman

Senior Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/The John Hopkins University

FROM ENMITY TO AMITY: THE PRINCIPLE OF RECONCILIATION IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ITS PRACTICE IN GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY

Co- Sponsered with the UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality

Best Practices Conference

Human Security Workshop

IMPROVING HUMANITARIAN ACTION­ COMPARING HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMAN SECURITY

SHARON TENNISON

Executive Director, Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI).
" AN AMERICAN CITIZEN DIPLOMAT'S EXPERIENCES BREAKING DOWN ENEMY STEREOTYPES BETWEEN US AND SOVIET/RUSSIAN CITIZENS AND POLITICIANS SINCE 1983."

RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN

Assistant Managing Editor, Washington Post and author of the book __ Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
"IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: INSIDE IRAQ'S GREEN ZONE"
Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democracy

DAVID HAMBURG

Chair, United Nations Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention,
President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation, Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow

"WHY WAR IS NOT INEVITABLE"

Co-sponsored with the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding and the Coastline Chapter of the United Nations Association