Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly Among Featured Speakers

WHAT: Education often extends far outside of the classroom, as is the case for students enrolled in DePaul University’s peace studies course, “Introduction to Peace, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice” (PAX 200). As part of a service-learning course component, students have organized and will participate in a Non-Violence Teach-In.

WHEN: Feb. 21, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.

WHERE: DePaul University Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., atrium

HIGHLIGHTS: The teach-in – the first of its kind at DePaul in several decades – is aimed at educating, inspiring and shaping leadership in the forms and practices of non-violence. The course is designed to teach students to become leaders who strive to create and maintain safe, free and peaceful environments for all.

Peace activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a Chicago-based campaign to end U.S. military and economic war against Iraq, will speak at 6 p.m. Other speakers include representatives from Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and Code Pink. Members of DePaul faculty, student body and staff will speak as well.

Musicians and poets will perform.

BACKGROUND: PAX 200 is a course offering of DePaul’s peace studies minor, which is composed of three components: peacemaking and international relations, interpersonal violence and conflict resolution and structural violence and social justice. The peace studies minor offers students a curriculum that allows for critical examination of the origins and root causes of violence and conflict and exposes them to nonviolent approaches to social change.