Event: Oct 16, 2008
Event: UT Conference to Study Creative Strategies for Peace Building in Africa
Date: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Time: 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Venue: University Center's Shiloh room
Details: Innovative approaches to peace building and development in one of the world's most challenging conflict zones -- Africa's Great Lakes region. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
Press Release: PDF
Conference Speakers:
- Amii Omara-Otunnu, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Human Rights, University of Connecticut
- Norbert Mao, Gulu district chairman, Northern Uganda
- Catherine Miles, Office of Sustainable Development, Sub-Saharan Africa Division, USAID, Washington, D.C.
- Winnie Lawoko, coordinator, Northern Uganda Girls Education Network (NUGEN)
- Sarah Lanyero, Makerere University, Vice President, NUGEN
- Michael Poffenberger, director, Resolve Uganda, Washington, D.C.
- Rosalind I. J. Hackett, UT Department of Religious Studies and Jazz for Justice Project coordinator
- Jeff Korondo, musician, Gulu, Northern Uganda
Contact:
Tel (865) 588-1562
www.knoxjazzforjustice.org
Email: jazz4justice@gmail.com
Sponsors:
- Jazz for Justice Project
- UT's Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
- Ready for the World initiative
- Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence
- Chancellor's Honors and College Scholars
- Africana Studies program
- UT's Departments of History, Religious Studies, Child And Family Studies and Psychology
- Hodges Better English Fund
- English Department
- Rotaract and Amnesty International.
For more information about this conference and the Baker Center, see or visit www.bakercenter.utk.edu.
Contacts:
Gavin Luter, (865) 974-0931, dluter@utk.edu
Lindsay McClain, lmcclai4@utk.edu