Session 1B: Genocide Prevention and the Role of Community Activists Roundtable
Location
BCC 200
Start Date
13-6-2012 2:30 PM
End Date
13-6-2012 3:15 PM
Description
It is estimated that 20th century genocides have directly impacted up to 1 billion people. Focusing on the role of the educated and empowered constituency, our panelists will discuss how individual students and others can work to generate the political will to end genocide/mass atrocities. Using their volunteer role as anti-genocide activists with United to End Genocide as a guide, we will discuss how an engaged citizenship can create an effective grassroots lobbying effort to reduce the prevalence of genocides in our lifetime. A roundtable discussion will be followed by a question and answer session.
Session 1B: Genocide Prevention and the Role of Community Activists Roundtable
BCC 200
It is estimated that 20th century genocides have directly impacted up to 1 billion people. Focusing on the role of the educated and empowered constituency, our panelists will discuss how individual students and others can work to generate the political will to end genocide/mass atrocities. Using their volunteer role as anti-genocide activists with United to End Genocide as a guide, we will discuss how an engaged citizenship can create an effective grassroots lobbying effort to reduce the prevalence of genocides in our lifetime. A roundtable discussion will be followed by a question and answer session.
Comments
Facilitators:
Cynthia Davis has been a Decorative Artist since 1993. She has served as a board member for the Trumbull Academic Challenge for Excellence, an organization that supports academic and social justice clubs at Trumbull schools. She is currently a board member of Hope for Ariang, an organization founded by one of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Jim Messina is the Director of Spiritual Development at Saint Martin de Porres Academy, a Catholic middle school in New Haven, Connecticut. A teacher and a human rights activist, Jim has dedicated the last six years to working with children from economically disadvantaged families while instilling in them the importance of social justice and community service.
Richard Clark is the Director of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Program at John Carroll University. He is also the Board President of the Inter-Religious Task Force on Central America, a Cleveland-based human rights organization.
All three presenters are 2011 Carl Wilkens Fellows