Oct. 1, 1999
Contact: Liz Harman
(619) 260-4682
[email protected]
USD PLAYS PEACE GAMES
In conjunction with the groundbreaking for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, USD will hold a conference "Building a culture of Peace," featuring an innovative "peace games" simulation, along with a speech by a top State Department official and workshops and roundtables to explore peace and justice issues.
On Sunday, Oct. 3, the day before the conference officially begins, USD faculty members will participate in a simulated "peace games" operation, modeled after the war games exercises used by the military.
The New York City-based Global Forum developed the games to teach a new generation of leaders how to "wage peace." Like war games, the peace games involve realistic scenarios and situations to teach the negotiation and conflict resolution skills necessary to help solve the religious and ethnic conflicts permeating the globe in the post-Cold War world.
The peace games start at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3 in Room 104 of the Hahn School of Nursing. They finish at 3 p.m. in the University Center, Room 103. Tatiana Androsov, program director of the Global Forum, will also discuss the peace games on Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the Manchester Executive Conference Center.
The conference gets underway on Monday, Oct. 4, with a keynote address by Principal Deputy Assistant Sec. of State William Wood. At the United Nations, he works with all aspects of foreign policy including peacekeeping operations and conventional arms control. His topic is "Global Efforts at Peace."
Other highlights of the conference include a presentation by filmmaker Paul Espinoza who will discuss "The Border" his new PBS documentary about U.S.-Mexico border issues at noon on Thursday, Oct. 7 in the University Center. For a full conference schedule, call the News Bureau at (619) 260-4682.
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