Fall Semester Focuses on Peace

Professor John Grayzel Baha'i Chair for World Peace introduces Semester on Peace Keynote Speaker David Alan Harris. October 14, 2009 iTunes Download

Semester on Peace Keynote: An Evening with David Alan Harris: "Using Dance and Movement Therapy to Heal African Child Survivors of War." October 14, 2009 iTunes Download

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The University of Maryland spent its 2008 fall semester focusing on War and the Representation of War. Now, for fall, 2009, the focus will shift to a Semester on Peace. Sponsored by a cross-section of faculty, students and staff who make up the Initiative on Education for Peace, Cooperation, and Development (IEPCD), the semester will help students focus on four specific ways to "Think Peace:"

• Connect the many student, faculty, department, college, and campus organizations that work on matters related to peace.
  
  
• Bring to greater awareness the many opportunities at the University of Maryland for advancing peace - beginning on campus and ending with our one shared world.
  
  
• Showcase university courses, the First-Year Book, events, workshops, dialogues, performances, and career building activities for peace.
  
  
• Build interdisciplinary pathways to peace among University of Maryland course offerings so as to enrich individual efforts through association with complementary activities.

Newsdesk recently talked with Maryland's Baha'i Chair for World Peace - Prof. John Grayzel - about the Semester on Peace. He says "In today's world we have become so inextricably interconnected, as minds, bodies and souls, that the fate of one and the fate of all are the same. The Semester seeks to ask the question: How can we act in ways that mutually balance and benefit each other, rather than mutually destabilize and injure ourselves and others?" The interview includes information about activites planned across campus.

Read "A Conversation With..." Baha'i Chair for World Peace - Prof. John Grayzel.

Semester on Peace Home Page
First Year Book 2009

Initiative on Education for Peace, Cooperation, and Development

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