Message-ID: <26F56FA1EE4@trinity.udayton.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:33:29 EST From: Sheelah Moyer <mailto:MOYER@TRINITY.UDAYTON.EDU> Subject: Please Distribute To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
PRESS RELEASE
The University of Dayton Center for International Programs 300 College Park Dayton, Ohio 45469-1481 Contact: Sheelah Moyer, Program Coordinator Telephone: (513) 229-3514 Fax: (513) 229-2766
DEMOCRACY UNDER FIRE!
The Center for International Programs is pleased to announce the seventh annual Voices of Democracy Symposium: Democracy Under Fire! March 1-2, 1996 in the University of Dayton's Kennedy Union.
On Friday afternoon March 1, the symposium will begin with a workshop, Student Voices of Democracy, examining the different perspectives on the democratization process held by American and international students. Speakers will be drawn from regional American and international student university and college communities. Pre-registration for this workshop is required.
On Friday evening March 1, the symposium's keynote address (which is free and open to the public) will be delivered at 8:00 p.m. by Sonia Picado, Ambassador to the United States from Costa Rica, in UD's Jesse Philips Humanities Building Sears Recital Hall. Ambassador Picado has served as the Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, established by the Organization of American States. She was the first woman elected to the Court and was appointed a judge in 1988. Prior to accepting her current position, Ambassador Picado served as the Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica.
ALL Saturday sessions require pre-registration. Saturday will begin with an opening panel discussion (Re)Constructing Democracy that will focus on conflict resolution and reconstructing democracy. The plenary will be moderated by Claude Welch, a specialist in South African issues and human rights, from the State University of New York-Buffalo.
Saturday concurrent sessions are:
Political and Economic Reform in Emerging Democracies that will focus on political and economic development. Participants in this session include: John P. Quigley, Sovietologist and Palestinian expert, from Ohio State University; John Sherman, specialist in Mexican issues, from Wright State University; and Jerzy Chiechanski, specialist in international relations and the United Nations and a native of Poland, from the University of Dayton.
Voices Under Fire will focus on the cultural response to oppression in arts and music during the social and political turmoil associated with political and economic change. Participants in this session include: Mempo Giardinelli, a leading Argentinean writer; Alicia Rolon-Alexander, literature specialist from Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania); and David Petreman, Chilean literature specialist, from Wright State University.
Role of Non-Governmental Organizations will focus on constructing civil society and non-governmental organizations as watch-dog organizations. Participants in this session include: Claude Welch, a specialist in South African issues and human rights, from the State University of New York-Buffalo; Lilya Wagner, expert on community building, with the National Association for Community Leadership; Tonya Higgins, a specialist in Irish issues, with the University of Dayton; and Mark Ensalaco, human rights and Latin American specialist, from the North American Secretariat of the Inter-American Forum on Human Rights (FIDEH).
Democracies Wrestling With Extremism will focus on terrorist and extremist organizations that operate in democratic societies around the world. Participants in this session include: Michael Sandberg, specialist on extremist organizations (militias and Klan activities), from the Anti-Defamation League; and Donna Schlagheck, expert on international terrorist organizations, from Wright State University.
REGISTRATION FEES:
General Public Students Friday Workshop Only $5 $3 Saturday Half-Day Only $6 $5 Saturday Full Day $10 $7 Both Friday & Saturday $20 $10
The first VOD symposium in 1990 focused on the process of democratization in four areas of the world; other symposia have dealt with the evolution of international human rights norms, ethnic diversity, pluralism and international human rights, environmentally sustainable development, women in a changing world, and development, poverty and empowerment. VOD is designed to bring together faculty, students and community participants for general presentations, small group discussion and specialized workshops. There is an effort made to link the international and local dimensions of issues presented.