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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Women in Peace and Conflict Panel Discussion 9/28/15 at Swarthmore

“Women in Peace and Conflict: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

Monday, September 28, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall
Swarthmore College

A panel discussion with Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and chair of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and Wendy Chmielewski, George R. Cooley Curator, Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Professor Marjorie Murphy, will serve as panel moderator.

Moderated by Marjorie Murphy, James C. Hormel Professor in Social Justice

Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the Peace Prize with her that year. At that time, she became the 10th woman - and third American woman - in its almost 100-year history to receive the Prize. Since her protests of the Vietnam War, she has been a life-long advocate of freedom, self-determination and human and civil rights.

Like others who have seen the ravages of war, she is an outspoken peace activist who struggles to reclaim the real meaning of peace - a concept which goes far beyond the absence of armed conflict and is defined by human security, not national security. Williams believes that working for peace is not for the faint of heart. It requires dogged persistence and a commitment to sustainable peace, built on environmental justice and meeting the basic needs of the majority of people on our planet.

Wendy Chmielewski, has held the position as George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection since 1988.  Trained as a historian, she has specialized in the history of women, social movements, and social reform.  Chmielewski received her Ph.D. in American History from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1989, and her dissertation explored issues of feminism and women’s roles in U.S. communal societies and utopian literature of the nineteenth century.


A reception will follow the panel discussion.

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