The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) is pleased to announce that its annual conference will be hosted at Portland State University (and in collaboration with the Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium).

The conference theme of “Building Cultures of Peace” will explore historical, current and potential future elements of the local, regional, national and transnational struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means.

When: September 11th – 14th, 2008
Where: Portland State University

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Sami Rasouli, founder and director of Muslim Peacemaker Teams. Sami is coming from Iraq.

• Two Hibakusha (survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), coming from Japan.
  

• Betty Reardon, one of the great figures of Peace Education, emeritus from Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Kathy Kelly, founder of Voice for Creative Nonviolence.

• Mary King, UN Peace professor, author of several important books on nonviolence, and former civil rights worker with the Studnt Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

• Catherine Thomasson, M.D., president of the US Physicians for Social Responsibility.

• Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild.

• Stella Ting-Toomey, a world expert on intercultural conflict resolution.

• Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco Politics professor and co-editor of two books on nonviolence.

• Jo Ann Bowman, director of Oregon Action, specializing in political empowerment of the most disenfranchised.

• "Bumpy" Pu'uhonua Kanahele, indigenous Hawaiian sovereignty leader sworn to Gandhian methods.

An online registration form is available here.
A downloadable registration form that can be mailed in is available here.

For more information, please contact us at pjsa@usfca.edu.