“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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