Central New York Peace Studies Consortium

23rd Annual Peace Studies Conference
9 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, November 12th, 2011

Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA

Film Screening 6:30-8:30

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Welcoming
(RH 446)

Caroline Tauxe (Le Moyne College) and Farha Ternikar (Le Moyne College)

INTERNET-BASED ORGANIZING

Chair: Darius Makuja, Le Moyne College

1.  “Whose Honey, Whose Hive: Qualifying Global Email Petition Drives” W. Kurt Stavenhagen (Syracuse    University)

2.  “Internet-Based Organizing in the Liberian Diaspora” Sanicee H. Kromah (Le Moyne College)

3. “A Comparison of Internet Usage in Recent Political Uprisings and the Orange Revolution” Gregor Hintler             (Plant-for-the-Planet and Technical University of Cottbus, Germany)   SKYPE

4. “Why a Wiki: Powering Up the Swarm Against King Coal” Caroline Tauxe (Le Moyne College) and Ted    Nace (CoalSwarm)

WAR AND PEACE

Chair: Ed Kinane
1.“30 Days in Kabul” Ed Kinane (Voices for Creative Nonviolence, School of the Americas Watch)

2. “The Limits of Military Solutions: an empirical analysis of the effectiveness of improvised explosive devices    in Afghanistan” Andrew Kosydar and Paul Meinshausen (US Army Combined Arms Support    Command, Ft. Lee, VA)

3. “Introduction to LookSharp’s Media Construction of Peace and Media Construction of Social Justice curriculum kits, companion volumes to its first kit, Media Constructions of War.” These curricula support teaching of content for 11^th grade high school American History classes and college-level peace studies classes.
Sox Sperry (Ithaca College, Project LookSharp)

Off the Internet & Into the Streets: from social media to social movement

Chair: Jessica Maxwell (Syracuse Peace Council)

A panel of Syracuse Peace & Justice Activists speaking about their experiences

Rethinking Education and Parenting

Chair: Andrew Fitz-Gibbon (SUNY Cortland)

1. “Social, Cultural and Educational Resiliency: A Nigerian Case Study” Jennifer Penland (Western Wyoming Community College) SKYPE and Egbuna Chuks, Esq. (Diamond Link Network) SKYPE

2. “Rethinking Educational Violence: Interrupting the Pain with Peaceful Practice” Linda Pickett (SUNY           Cortland)

3.  “Nonviolent Re-Parenting: A Research Note” Andrew Fitz-Gibbon and Jane Fitz-Gibbon (SUNY Cortland)

Keynote Speaker
(RH 446)

“Televising the Revolutions: The Role of the Media in the Arab Spring”
Laila Al-Arian, Al Jazeera English

Lunch
(RH 446)

Awards Ceremony
(RH 446)

Judy Castles-Bentley (CNY Peace Studies Consortium outgoing President)
2011 Peace Studies Award Recipients:

Peace Studies Book of the Year

Peace Studies Media of the Year

Peace Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project of the Year

Peace Studies Graduate Paper/Project of the Year

Peace Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year

Amplifying Voices

Chair: Caroline Tauxe (Le Moyne College)

1. “Baghdad Burning: Benefits of Blogging” Staci Stutsman (Syracuse University)

2. “In Our Own Backyard: Local Community Organizing and the Power to Publish” Benjamin Kuebrich             (Syracuse University)

3. “Stories Are the Only Vector: New Media in Arts-Based Community Development” Mary B. Stanley (Art   Across Borders) and Caroline Tauxe (Le Moyne College)

Youth, Justice & Incarceration

Chair: Elizabeth A. Green

1. “Hip-Hop Pedagogy from Higher Education to Youth Incarceration” Hasan Stephens (Save the Kids)

2. “Youth in the Adult System: New York’s Juvenile Offender Law and Why it is Broken” James Czarniak,      (Director of Juvenile Justice, Onondaga County)

3. “Nothing About Me, Without Me: Giving Youth in the Juvenile Justice System a Real Voice” Christopher   Petilli (Director of Re-Entry and Mentoring, Save the Kids)

States, Citizens, & Insurgents

Chair: Ed Kinane (Syracuse Peace Council)
1. “Military Doctrine and Intelligence Fusion in the American Homeland” Matthew Hidek (Syracuse University)

2. “US Military Repression of Peace Movement Activists” Seth Kershner (Massachusetts Coll. of Liberal Arts)

3. “Direct Action, Animal Advocacy & Eco-Justice: ‘Eco-Terrorists’ Challenging State Capitalism”, Michael            Loadenthal (George Mason University), SKYPE
4. “The Preservation of the Japanese Emperorship and the Firebombing of Japan” Imogene Wallenfells           (Syracuse University)

Chair: Elizabeth A. Green

1. “De-Schooling the Digital Divide: Technology as a Tool for Communities to Transform School” Vivian             Johnson (Hamline University)   SKYPE

2. “Beyond Magic: English Language Learners and the Digital Divide” Kimberly Socha (Normandale             Community College)   SKYPE

3. “Critical Urban Education’s Argument for Technology as a Tool for Justice” Anthony J. Nocella II (Hamline University)  SKYPE

Plenary Session Speaker
(RH 446)

“Liberation Technology, Popular Uprisings, and Neoliberal Ideology”
Ulises Mejías (SUNY Oswego)

Christina Michaelson (Le Moyne College) and Joseph Rayle (SUNY Cortland)

Conference attendees are on their own for an evening meal.

FILM SCREENING
(Grewen Auditorium)

Free for all.

Welcoming:
Darius Makuja (Le Moyne College)

“Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
A documentary from the PBS mini-series Women, War and Peace, about the role of women in ending the Liberian civil war

Facilitated by:

Mardea Warner,
Syracuse activist and daughter of the last democratically elected vice-president of Liberia before the civil war in that country.

Sanicee H. Kromah,
Peace & Global Studies student at Le Moyne College and online political organizer in the Liberian diaspora.

Film Sponsored by:

CNY Peace Studies Consortium
Pan-African Community of Central New York
Peace & Global Studies Program, Le Moyne College
Center for Urban & Regional Applied Research, Le Moyne College
Gender & Women’s Studies Program, Le Moyne College
Women, War, & Peace (Fork Films)

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