Printer FriendlyDate: April 3, 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Location: O’Leary 222, UML South
Description: Promoting conflict resolution and violence prevention skills requires the involvement of very diverse groups. As the UMass Lowell interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Studies Institute (PACSI) celebrates its 13th Annual Day Without Violence, an initiative honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the members are proud to present Linda Biehl, a world-renowned peace and reconciliation expert, Director of the Amy Biehl Foundation Trust and the University's first Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.
Focusing on Ms. Biehl's experiences with youth gangs in the Cape Flats and prisons of South Africa, this program will also draw parallels to the issues of gang violence experienced in the City of Lowell, half a world away. New and effective strategies addressing issues of gang violence, being developed by Linda Biehl in South Africa and through University and community resources here in Lowell, will be shared. Linda Biehl will be joined in this discussion by Allan Roscoe, instructor in the UMass Lowell Criminal Justice department; Linda Silka, professor in the Regional Economic and Social Development (RESD) department and director of the Center for Work, Family and Community; and other community leaders. Besides PACSI, other sponsors include the Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Endowment for Peace Studies; departments of Sociology, Environmental, Earth, & Atmospheric Science, Criminal Justice and Philosophy and Protestant Campus Ministry.
Contact: Imogene_Stulken@uml.edu or (978) 934-5014