At the beginning of a new century marked already by war and seemingly intractable conflicts, it is more important than ever to listen to thinkers and leaders with historical knowledge, cultivated insight, and practical approaches to peace. We have invited four such people to Stanford for a symposium on ways and means to improve our prospects for a less threatening future at home and abroad.
Related Themes: courage, Gandhi, nonviolence, prison, public health
prison
Waging Peace:
Practical Approaches to a Violent World
Arun Gandhi, James Gilligan, Frances Moore Lappé, and Michael Nagler with Mark Gonnerman
Saturday, August 14, 2004 | 10:00 – 5:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All
Restorative Justice:
Reducing Crime by Reforming Prisoner Experience
Michael Hennessey and Cathrine Sneed with Michael Krasny
Thursday, April 14, 2005 | 7:30 – 9:00pm | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All
Today nearly 70 percent of all prisoners will be rearrested within
three years of their release. Might awareness of this failure
invigorate efforts to reform the experience of incarceration in a
country where more than two million people (out of a world total of
nine million) inhabit prisons, jails, youth facilities, and immigrant
detention centers? This conversation raises this question, and suggests
practical and proven approaches to change.
Related Themes: justice, prison
Director's Notes
Post by Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
New Art+Invention Speaker Series
The Aurora Forum is pleased to join with Stanford Lively Arts and the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts to present a series of conversations on "Art+Invention" with artists who are in residence or visiting the Stanford Campus. Our guests in this series are people who contribute to and illuminate various cultures, expand awareness through new technologies, and probe philosophical questions that are at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This will be fun! Click here for an overview of this exciting new venture.
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