Conference focuses on terrorism, safety and peacemaking
April 7, 2017
The Seventh Annual International Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution will be held
from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 12 in the Wood Center ballroom.The conference, hosted by the ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ of Liberal Arts, will feature two sessions — one on reducing terrorism and another on creating safer communities and indigenous peacemaking circles.
Videoconferencing will create a global event featuring local, national and international leaders, researchers and students of dispute resolution.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Michael Gallagher, a spokesman for victims of the 1998 terrorist bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Gallagher is a board member for Strength to Strength and a sponsor of the Young Ambassadors program.
Interior Alaska participants can join the conference at the Wood Center ballroom. To participate online or by phone, go to the cyber-conference website at .
Event sponsors include the UAF Center for Cross-Cultural Studies' indigenous studies program, the Department of Communications and Journalism, and the UAF Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.
The ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ of Liberal Arts, the largest of UAF’s academic units, comprises arts, humanities, social sciences and language disciplines across 20 departments.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Polly Hyslop, associate professor of indigenous studies in the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, at physlop@alaska.edu; Brian Jarrett, director of the negotiation, conflict resolution and peace-building program at California State University Dominguez Hills, at bjarrett@csudh.edu.
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