The first
conference was held on April 15, 2005. The conference was structured in the traditional format with a key-note address, workshop strands and concurrent break-out workshop sessions. Marc Herold, Professor of Economic and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire, delivered the key-note address he wrote for the conference titled, “War as‘Edsel’: The Marketing and Consumption of Modern American Wars.” pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/page_body.htm.
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We provided 5 workshop strands:
· Creating Cultures of Peace
· Environmental Peace
· The Effects of Modern War
· Personal Peace
·
Curriculum
for Teaching Peace
in which scholars
and community members presented individual sessions that included topics such as:
·
Building
a Department of Peace
·
Remembering
the Forgotten UN Decade for International Peace (2000-2010)
·
Putting
a Human Face on “Collateral Damage”
· Teaching Students to Recognize and Resist War Propaganda
·
Using
Documentary Film to Teach the Effects of War·Seeking Peaceful Solutions to
Environmental Problems
·
Do
Emotions Belong in 21st Century Classrooms and How Does Personal Peace Find Its
Way?
·
Creating
Inner Peace
·
Teaching
Peace
·
Modeling
Peace in the Classroom and Beyond.