Date: Fri Nov 03 2006 - 10:13:07 AST
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Sponsored by Peacemakers Incorporated
Empowering Peacemakers
Adams Mark Hotel and Conference Center
Dallas, Texas, USA
July 10-15, 2007
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Conference Format
a.. Plenary sessions will include keynote speakers.
b.. Interactive Workshops will be conducted by professional
facilitators with expert panelists from around the world.
c.. Resource experts will present lectures.
d.. Experienced peacemakers will present seminars on peace skills
and approaches to peace in their respective countries.
e.. Participants will share opinions, ideas and strategies in
facilitated discussion groups.
Peacemakers, Incorporated is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt
corporation founded in Dallas, Texas by journalist, author and peacemaker,
Vivian Castleberry.
News Release
Confirmed Speakers
Jody Williams
(United States)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1997
Awarded for her work in achieving an international treaty banning
landmines as Founding Coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines; Distinguished Visiting Professor of Social Work and Global
Justice in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Houston.
Betty Williams
(Northern Ireland)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1976
Awarded for her work in bringing peace in her native Northern Ireland;
Founder of the Global Children's Studies Center; Founder of the World
Centers of Compassion for Children.
Sharon D. Welch
(United States)
Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of
Missouri--Columbia.
Ruth- Gaby Vermot Mangold
(Switzerland)
Co-President of Peace Women Across the Globe, an international network
of women working in different fields of human security, joining forces to
bring the knowledge and leadership of peacewomen to official decision making
arenas.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
(Guatemala)
Nobel Peace Laureate, 1992
Awarded for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural
reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples in her
native Guatemala . Established a foundation to promote the rights of
indigenous people around the world.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
(South Africa)
Professor, University of Cape Town; award winning author of A Human
Being Died That Night; former committee member of The Truth and
Rconcilliation Commission.
Noeleen Heyzer
(Singapore)
Executive Director of UNIFEM, the leading operational agency within
the US promoting women's empowerment and gender equality.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
(United States)
Millionth Circle Initiative, 5WWC; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
University of California Medical Center; prolific author, latest book:
Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World.
Merve Kavakci
(Turkey)
Elected to Turkish Parliment, noted international lecturer and scholar
recognized for her efforts in the advancement of human rights and Muslim
women's empowerment.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead -
1901-1978
