If we think of our life as an effort to fly always

that little bit higher and reach a goal that’s always just a little bit beyond our grasp, how high can any of us go?” With those words, Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist and U.N. Messenger of Peace, ignited a sense of wonder and awe in the crowd of over 3,500 students and community members filling the Jenny Craig Pavilion at the University of San Diego (USD) on April 17. Goodall’s speech, “Reason for Hope,” was the closing lecture of the 2007-2008 Joan B. Kroc

Distinguished Lecture Series, as well as the culminating event in a year of activities undertaken by the institute to address issues of climate change and environmental sustainability, particularly as they affect conflict and peace.

In her lecture, Goodall described her realization that chimpanzees, even up to the borders of the 30-square-mile Gombe Natural Preserve she established in Tanzania, were being endangered by the destruction of their habitat. She confessed to feeling “a kind of desperation” when contemplating environmental degradation, which she described as having two main causes: the needs of the very poor living in the rural areas, who have no other choice, and “the unsustainable lifestyles of the elite communities, [who] take far more than our fair share of non-renewable natural resources.” She recounted words from an Inuit colleague: “My brothers and sisters … up in the north the ice is melting. What will it take to melt the ice in the human heart?”

But, Goodall went on to say, “it’s not right that there’s nothing we can do about it.” She laid out her four “reasons for hope” with disarming simplicity: the energy of young people, organized in groups like Roots & Shoots (a program she founded in 1991 through her institute); the

Jane Goodall speaks at the Distinguished Lecture Series

Jane Goodall Gives A “Reason for Hope” to Audience of 3,500 Lecture Marks Culmination of a Year Devoted to Sustainability by Elena McCollim

resilience of nature, which restores itself; the indomitable human spirit, personified in famous leaders and in “people just living all around us, living lives that unless we know about them, we may just walk by and never know that . . . [they’ve] had to overcome seemingly impossible odds”; and finally, the human brain. “[F]eeling our backs to the wall . . . we’re using our brains to work out how each one of us can walk through life with a smaller ecological footprint.”

Toward the end of Goodall’s talk, six young people approached the stage at her invitation, bearing a large puppet in the shape of a dove. A song written for the U.N. International Day of Peace, celebrated annually on Sept. 21, was played as they solemnly “flew” the peace dove around the stage. “Perhaps, and I hope, at last,” Goodall concluded, “we’re beginning to see the ice melting in the human heart.”

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PEACE & JUSTICE Compass

Jane Goodall

Perhaps, and I hope, at last, we’re beginning to see the ice melting in the human heart.

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Students fly the peace dove

I am proud of USD for being willing to accept and welcome risk … [especially former president] Alice Hayes who knew we might bring controversial people to campus and essentially said, ‘Bring them on!’

Joyce Neu

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I am leaving USD and, in doing so, ending this important segment of my life – this ending is where I will be starting from at the United Nations.

What I have learned in these past seven-plus years is immeasurable. Borrowing from T.S. Eliot again, I have not measured my life in coffee spoons – the work I have had the honor to do here, the trust that was placed in me to create this institute, has meant that we have had the challenge of asking, “Do we dare disturb the universe?” and have had to answer yes – there is no time to measure things in coffee spoons. I am proud of USD for being willing to accept and welcome risk: from Alice Hayes who knew we might bring controversial people to campus and essentially said, “Bring them on!” – to Mary Lyons and Julie Sullivan who have encouraged our emphasis on the inclusion of marginalized voices such as those of women from zones of conflict.

Of course, I cannot forget the most special woman of all – Joan Kroc. She wanted more than anything to see an end to war and believed that education was the path to change. Despite her lack of formal education and her humble upbringing, she understood that her abundant wealth brought with it an obligation to speak out. And she spoke out by giving this university $80 million over a five-year period to help educate young and old so that war would, indeed, become obsolete.

Joan was a woman of her word and she was our most ardent fan because she believed that good people, through education, could change the world. Her final gift was to add to the existing endowment of the institute and create the first School of Peace Studies in the U.S. This new school will create new opportunities for the institute to work with students and faculty, encouraging them to not only think and talk about peace, but make peace.

If it were not for the people who gave me the chance to lead this institute and my opportunity to work with an incredibly talented and dedicated staff, I would not be arriving at this ending and beginning. I owe more than I can express to the incredibly passionate and professional staff members who have worked at the institute. Foremost among them are Dee Aker, deputy director and now interim executive director, and Louis Cappella, director of operations and events. It is difficult to express how much I have learned and benefited from Dee, Louis and each member of the staff. I will miss our daily interactions.

It isn’t just the staff who make the work of the institute possible, however. I thank the many friends in the USD community who have encouraged us with their passion for peace and who have shared in the work of organizing and co-sponsoring events and programs. To those of you who contribute to the institute through checks large and small – thank you. Even with the wonderful largesse of Joan Kroc, the interest from our endowment does not support the many activities in which the institute is engaged, and your support allows us to offer the programs we do. It is reassuring for us to know that you believe in us enough to put your money to work through the institute. Thank you.

Farewell from Joyce Neu, Founding Executive Director of the IPJ

T. S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Staff Transitions and Milestones•DeputyDirectorDee Aker is serving as Interim Executive Director following Joyce Neu’s departure for the United Nations.

•EventAssistantLisa Anderson left the institute in March to work in Ghana.

•InMay2008,ExecutiveAssistantAnne Birkel and Executive Assistant of IPJ Operations and Events Karen Oropeza were each recognized by the university for their five years of service.

•ProgramOfficersDiana Kutlow and Laura Taylor were promoted to Senior Program Officers in April 2008.

•SeniorProgramOfficerLaura Taylor is joining the inaugural class of the Ph.D. program in Psychology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Fall 2008.

Joan B. Kroc with Joyce Neu in 2001

Joyce Neu, Ph.D., accepted a position as the first team leader for a new U.N. Standby Team of Mediation Experts. She maintains her connection to the institute as special advisor. These remarks are adapted from the speech she delivered at her farewell breakfast in March 2008.

Staff Awards and Recognitions•InterimExecutiveDirectorDee Aker was named the inaugural Phillips Brooks House Fellow at Harvard University in Sept. 2007.

•ProgramCoordinatorKarla Alvarez and Senior Program Officer Diana Kutlow were named Green Leaders by USD’s Sustainability Task Force for their “sustainability transformation” of recent IPJ events, including the visit by Jane Goodall and the WorldLink Youth Town Meeting (see page 5).

•ProgramCoordinatorKarla Alvarez was also selected as one of 200 international youth delegates who attended the CIVICUS Youth and World Assemblies in Glasgow, Scotland in June 2008, in recognition of her work with the WorldLink Program.

•EditorEmiko Noma successfully defended her graduate thesis in Feb. 2008 and received her M.S. in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University.

•SeniorProgramOfficerLaura Taylor was honored with a Woman of Impact Award from the Women’s Center at USD in recognition of her “deep impact on the life and well-being of the USD community.”

Joyce Neu dared to “disturb the universe” as she engaged us in creating the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. We are

confident she will continue to do this with a passion as the first team leader for the new U.N. Standby Team of Mediation Experts. We promise to keep that spirit in IPJ peacebuilding activities and educational outreach.

Personal, local and international universes were rattled in elections in Nepal, as you will read (page 6). After flirting with democracy for over 50 years, a fledgling republic seems to be emerging. Two years after civil society stood up to a monarchy and the former Maoist

rebels joined an interim government, elections – deemed to be mostly free and fair – succeeded in electing a fairly representative constituent assembly to write a new constitution. Many formerly disenfranchised individuals from diverse ethnic and caste groups are coming to the table, along with more women. The Maoist party, having won more votes than the traditional parties, has the challenge of moving forward its cadres steeped in guerilla tactics and unaccustomed to the slow consultative processes of working in a democracy. Multiple universes are being challenged, including the United States’, which still has the Maoists on its terrorist advisory list.

Labels are powerful placeholders in the universe. In light of Nepal’s profound transformation, U.S. blanket policies about controversial political markers need examination. The U.S. officially placed the Maoists on the terrorist advisory list in 2003 over the earnest protests of Nepali human rights groups, nongovernmental organizations and many Nepali political leaders. Immediately, a six-month ceasefire ended; the U.S. armed an oppressive king; the conflict escalated.

A defensive mindset of an international player can be a particularly difficult universe to unsettle. When the U.S. Embassy evacuated during the people’s non-violent uprising in 2006, the guns on the streets in Kathmandu were with the king’s army and pointed at unarmed Nepali nationals demanding peace. As the only self-exiled government, the U.S. missed what might have helped to broaden its perspectives – a million joyous, hopeful Nepalis marching together in Kathmandu in April 2006.

Perhaps it is time to disturb the universe of U.S. policy based on labels and assumptions. The Maoist success in this election was not the result of increased arms, but rather an expanding sense of human rights and human capacities for communication in spite of political labels, detached elites or those promoting military solutions. Maoist leaders, too, must remember negative, reflexive responses can threaten this transitional government.

The Nepali people’s call for a serious government that can build roads and live by the rule of law suggests there is hope. But, it will not be found without continuing to rattle universes here and there with human engagement and understanding.

Peace Talks & Justice MattersBy IPJ Interim Director Dee Aker

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IPJ MISSION Fostering Peace, Cultivating Justice and Creating a Safer World. Through education, research and peacemaking activities, the IPJ offers programs that advance scholarship and practice in conflict resolution and human rights. The IPJ draws upon Catholic social teaching that sees peace as inseparable from justice and acts to prevent and resolve conflicts that threaten local, national and international peace.

PEACE & JUSTICE COMPASS The Peace & Justice Compass newsletter is published by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.

An online version of this newsletter can be found at http://peace.sandiego.edu, together with additional information about IPJ programs and activities. To receive this newsletter via e-mail, log on to http://peace.sandiego.edu and subscribe to the free e-mail list. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the University of San Diego. President, University of San DiegoMary E. Lyons, Ph.D. Provost, University of San Diego Julie H. Sullivan, Ph.D. Dean, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies University of San Diego William Headley, C.S.Sp., Ph.D. Interim Executive Director Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Dee Aker, Ph.D. Editors, Peace & Justice Compass Elena McCollim, M.A. Emiko Noma, M.S. Design Buchanan Design, San Diego

Diana Kutlow and Karla Alvarezare USD Green Leaders

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Distinguished Lecture SeriesRoth and Egeland Complete Lecture Series on the Environment

Along with the Distinguished Lecture Series theme and the topic of the 2008 WorldLink

Youth Town Meeting (see next page), the IPJ participated in USD initiatives to bring attention to the university’s responsibility to the environment.

In Fall 2007, after traveling with Senior Program Officer Diana Kutlow to the 60th annual U.N. Department of Public Information/Nongovernmental Organization conference – where the theme was “Climate Change: How It Impacts Us All” – IPJ staff members Karla Alvarez and Elena McCollim reported back on their experiences during USD’s Social Issues Conference. In addition, they joined School of Law professor Lesley McAllister on a panel and examined whether the newly enshrined concept of the “responsibility to protect,” originally designed to protect populations from atrocities like genocide, may be utilized to protect communities against the injurious effects of climate change.

Institute events related to environmental issues during the academic year included the screening of the film “An Inconvenient Truth,” and a talk by U.S. Ambassador Reno L. Harnish on “Advancing the Use of Renewable Energy Worldwide.” The IPJ is now represented on USD’s new Sustainability Task Force and staff members have been recognized as Green Leaders in the university’s “Be Blue, Go Green” initiative.

IPJ and USD Dedicate Year to the Environment

Alvarez at USD’s Social Issues Conference

When the institute chose “The Intersection of Human Security and the Environment” as the theme for the 2007-2008 Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series, the International

Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not yet issued its final and conclusive reports asserting that climate change was indeed real and human-caused. And even before the Nobel committee awarded the 2007 peace prize to Al Gore and the IPCC, the institute welcomed Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Sept. 20, 2007 to address “The Dynamics of Human Rights and the Environment.”

Roth described how unchecked environmental degradation in a country can lead to violations of human rights, particularly when communities attempt to bring attention to the problem. Taking an example from Human Rights Watch’s work in China, he said, “We are fighting to defend the activists who are activists trying to defend the earth.” In his lecture, Roth suspected that a map of worldwide repression would closely overlay a map of environmental degradation, “because the best defense of the environment is permitting the people who are most affected by environmental problems to speak out and address those problems.”

On March 4, 2008, Jan Egeland, former U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, sketched a picture of a world in which – contrary to what many believe – wars are actually decreasing in number. In his lecture entitled “War, Peace and Climate Change: A Billion Lives in the Balance,” he asserted the findings of the 2005 Human Security Report, “There is 50 percent more peace and less war now than when the Berlin War fell in 1989.”

But after asking the question, “Is it getting better or is it getting worse in this world during our watch?” he identified a new cloud on the horizon – the existential threat of climate change. There are now three times more natural disasters, he pointed out, than three and four decades ago, due to more extreme weather and the increase in the number of vulnerable people crowded into exposed areas. “We can also safely predict,” Egeland remarked, “that in the future there will be gradually fewer refugee flows coming from war and conflict … and there will be more migration from environmental degradation and from totally inhospitable areas.”

After the lecture Egeland reflected, “I benefited immensely from the visit [to San Diego] and it got me started on the links between environment, humanitarian intervention and conflict prevention.”

Jane Goodall’s two-day visit at the institute in April – when she and USD’s Anthropology Club planted a tree in the IPJ’s Garden of the Sea, and met privately with WorldLink and regional high school students – concluded the 2007-2008 lecture series, and kicked off USD’s activities in recognition of Earth Week.

I benefited immensely from the visit [to San Diego] and it got me started on the links between environment, humanitarian intervention and conflict prevention.

Jan Egeland, former U.N. Chief of Humanitarian Affairs

Kenneth Roth explains the dynamics of human rights and the environment

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WorldLinkThe Next Generation Tackles Climate Change at Annual Youth Town Meeting

On Jan. 24, 2008, 700 middle and high school students from 27 schools in Southern California, Mexico and South Korea gathered for

WorldLink’s 11th Annual Youth Town Meeting. The student-chosen theme for this year’s meeting was “Untying Global Knots,” focusing on global warming and its complex connections to corporate and governmental corruption, media bias and poverty and health issues.

Nearly 20 experts representing government, the legal community, human rights, corporate America, the media and academia joined the students. Speakers included: Thomas Awiapo, a native of Ghana who survived childhood hunger; Ron Bonn, former TV news journalist and executive producer and USD adjunct professor; Harriet Hentges, former Wal-Mart director of stakeholder engagement; Alec Loorz, founder of Kids vs. Global Warming; Richard Matthew, professor of International and Environmental Politics at the University of California, Irvine; Lynne Talley, professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego and part of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which, along with Al Gore, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007; and Vicente Valle, U.S. Department of State representative.

Thirteen-year-old Loorz was the youngest and one of the most popular speakers of the day. Although among participants of a slightly older age group, Loorz proved age was not a drawback and could be an advantage. One student delegate noted, “We like to hear from experienced adults but we also love to hear from kids like us.” In addition to creating a kid-friendly global warming Web site, Loorz visits schools and organizations encouraging more students to action.

The Youth Town Meeting also featured photographs from Glorious Journey Photography, one of WorldLink’s sponsors, which uses profits from the sale of prints to benefit select nonprofit organizations focused on youth education and environmental conservation. The pictures, in keeping with the theme on the environment, focused mostly on indigenous peoples and wildlife in their native habitats.

A staff of 16 student writers from seven different schools in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico also contributed to the production of a bilingual newspaper. The 16-page spread details the 11th Annual Youth Town Meeting briefing sessions, plenaries and delegate responses. Over 2,000 copies of the newspaper have been distributed to teachers, students and community leaders, and it is available on the IPJ Web site at http://peace.sandiego.edu/programs/worldlink.html.

Delegates left the intense day of discussion carrying canvas tote bags to help them reduce their global carbon footprints.

WorldLink has made a huge difference in my life. Through the past three years that I have attended, it has really inspired me to be a leader, become more involved and to inspire other teens and kids.

2008 Delegate

WorldLink speakers and moderators at the 2008 Youth Town Meeting

WorldLink Intern Leads the Way to Wildlife Conservation

Mark Hargrove, junior at High Tech High International in San Diego and year-long WorldLink intern, proves age is not a barrier to making a difference. As an intern, Hargrove was

responsible for preparing research for the 11th Annual Youth Town Meeting on climate change. Over the course of his internship, he discovered a passion for environmental issues. After months of rigorous work, Hargrove was presented with the opportunity to attend Jane Goodall’s Global Youth Summit in Orlando, Fla. as one of 100 youths from six continents for a week-long program designed to “exchange ideas, strengthen leadership skills and create messages through digital media in order to promote awareness and advocate solutions around the day’s most pressing issues.”

While at the summit, Hargrove founded a Global Youth Council for Wildlife Conservation comprised of 29 members from 13 countries. After achieving nonprofit status, they intend to fulfill the group’s mission to “protect wild animals and protect their habitats” with their first project in Nepal. Hargrove has since published his first article on youth and wildlife conservation in Today’s Youth Asia, a magazine published by the IPJ Nepal Project partner of the same name.

Upon his return, Hargrove gave a presentation of his accomplishments to IPJ staff, peers, parents and teachers. After reflecting on his experience with WorldLink over the course of the year, Hargrove stated: “The WorldLink Program at the institute made an enormous difference for me. It was my jumping-off point, my window into involvement in world affairs. The internship enabled me to write speeches, give speeches, supplement my knowledge of international affairs and attend a global summit in Orlando. “It gave me the start I needed to change the world”.

WorldLink Intern Mark Hargrove with Jane Goodall

Two years after Jana Anadolan II, the non-violent movement for democracy, citizens turned out in historic numbers to take

democracy into their own hands – and take their opinions to the ballot box. IPJ Interim Executive Director Dee Aker served as an elections monitor with The Carter Center in the western region of Surkhet for the polls in April 2008.

But elections are just one step in a long-term peace process. With a new leadership, what role will Nepali people play in determining the future of the democratic transition of the nation? In May 2008, the IPJ team and its partner organization Manabiya Srot Bikas Kendra Nepal (MSBK-Nepal) held a roundtable, “Reaching Stable Peace: Roundtable on Reconciliation,” in Pokhara, encouraging participants to identify and articulate some of the key challenges still facing the country.

Fourteen representatives of three political parties, eight civil-society organizations and five security-sector bodies contributed to the two-hour dialogue on their concerns about the peace process and the challenges and issues for those they represent, namely socio-economic development, rule of law, impunity, ending corruption and accountability of elected officials.

With a vision for the long-term nature of peacebuilding, one political representative stated: “[A major] challenge is the social economic disparity that the country is now facing; there isn’t a lot of work being done to empower the people economically.” Another expressed, “The most important thing is to maintain law and order.” Restructuring of the existing forces and incorporation into the evolving government structures were key concerns raised. As one participant stated: “There is a great challenge in the integration of the Maoist army and the National Army; there is little consensus on how to integrate the forces.” In addition, “everyone is talking about a federal system, but as we the security personnel see, no one is talking about the framework of the security personnel in that system and how that will be addressed.”

One of the threats to ending impunity is the politicization of the security sector and the silencing of the victims and their families.

“There are weak sanctions. Sometimes we [state security personnel] bring in the culprits, only to have pressure of the political parties

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IPJ Nepal Projectto release them. The new constitution will have to have strict laws so Nepal is a more secure place and it is easier for us to work.” One advocate concluded, “The real conflict is over, but the consequences of conflict still remain, like the conflict victims. There needs to be more policies to give attention to the conflict victims,” and reminded the group of the provision in the Interim Constitution for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Corruption is rampant throughout Nepal, and in the political realm the “administration and bureaucracy only serve the parties, and the people are still suffering. The parties’ only agenda has become the political agenda, but we must focus on human dignity to reach sustainable peace and development.” One method to curb corruption is increased accountability of the political parties to those that they represent. As voters, “We have influence on the elected members, but the question is whether those people elected will be ultimately influenced by the people or the party?” The fact that many members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) are new, and perhaps less experienced, was seen as a two-edged sword: They might be more susceptible to pressure to follow the party line, or they might be more open to listen to the people’s concerns if voiced clearly.

Despite the many challenges addressed during the roundtable, participants reaffirmed their commitment to work for peace and security in Nepal, emphasizing the importance of working across party lines, as well as among the diverse sectors represented in the room, to achieve their vision for sustainable peace.

IPJ Receives Everest Summit Award

The top Nepal government leader, Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), presented the IPJ with the Everest Summit Award

in Kathmandu on May 25, 2008. Dee Aker, interim executive director, and Laura Taylor, senior program officer, accepted the honor while doing on-the-ground work in Nepal.

The award, given by the organization Today’s Youth Asia (TYA), was launched to recognize international figures who have been successful in bringing about positive reform in Nepal’s society through humanitarian work. Santosh Shah, publisher and editor of TYA magazine, said of the IPJ, “We are impressed with their practical approach and innovative and effective methods” of peacebuilding “in conflict-ridden nations.”

New Dialogues on a New Nepal

IPJ Working Districts in Nepal

Shah and Chairman Prachanda presenting award to the IPJ

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The Women PeaceMakers Program at the IPJ celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2007. Each fall, this unique program hosts four

courageous women and documents their stories of working to end conflict and build just and sustainable peace. As the institute welcomed four new peacemakers in 2007, it also invited previous IPJ Women PeaceMakers to return to San Diego for a summit on Oct. 23 to 24.

Due to the wildfires in the area, the event had to be relocated and transformed from a public event to a workshop format. A series of panel presentations provided the opportunity for the peacemakers to share with one another how they are handling some of the treacherous obstacles to peace, as well as illuminate any potential to bring greater healing to their societies and the rebuilding of their communities.

The Women PeaceMakers were joined by international policymakers and experts who highlighted gender concerns and inclusion in conflict resolution, peacekeeping operations and long-term peacebuilding efforts such as reconciliation and accountability. Though scheduled to speak alongside Joyce Neu on a Joan B. Kroc Distinguished Lecture Series panel that was cancelled due to the fires, Priscilla Hayner, director of the Peace and Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Lt. Gen. Joseph Owonibi, former force commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia, instead spoke with the peacemakers about how the broader community can and must respond to frontline calls for inclusive peace and justice, and detailed the actions taken by their organizations.

When their IPJ speaking event was also cancelled because of the wildfires, the three authors of The Faith Club participated in a session of the summit. Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner, women of three different faith traditions, wrote in their book about their post-9/11, inter-religious dialogue, and were inspired by their visit with the Women PeaceMakers. As Warner said, “We were so humbled, honored and grateful to be able to meet all of you during such a difficult time. The stories we heard from all around the world will stay with us forever.”

As a result of the summit, a “San Diego Call for Action” was issued by the Women PeaceMakers urging constructive steps be taken to ensure gender inclusion in peace processes. The call for action also gives specific recommendations in the 15 countries or regions represented at the summit. The document calls on those in positions of influence to take all measures necessary to secure a peaceful resolution to the conflicts that plague these countries. To read the

“San Diego Call for Action,” find interviews with the Distinguished Lecture speakers and download the final summit report, which also commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Women PeaceMakers Program, go to: http://peace.sandiego.edu/reports/conference.html.

2008 Women PeaceMakers Conference

Women Peacemakers

Women PeaceMakers at the 2007 summit

Is Peace Possible? Women PeaceMakers in Action

I loved drafting that statement with … the Women PeaceMakers. It was so gratifying to see how every one of us wanted all our countries’ problems to be covered in that two-page statement. It actually shows how much we care for a peaceful world and the safety of our fellow citizens.

Shreen Abdul Saroor

The institute is partnering with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for the third time in five years for

this year’s Women PeaceMakers Conference from Sept. 24-26. The international working conference will probe and address global acquiescence to impunity, gender violence and exclusion that continues to obstruct peacebuilding and deny human security. Co-convening the conference along with the IPJ and UNIFEM are the Global Justice Center, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. For more information, please see http://peace.sandiego.edu/events/womenpeace/info.php.

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Rebecca Joshua Okwaci of Sudan

2007 Women PeaceMakers Samia Bamieh — Palestine Samia Bamieh is a founding member of the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace and chairperson of its Palestinian Steering Committee. Bamieh was the director of gender policies and training in the Palestinian Directorate of Gender and Development of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation. She then served in the same ministry as director of U.N. and International Organizations and director general of European Affairs, and was a member of the committee assigned to draft a Palestinian constitution under Minister Nabeel Shaath. Latifah Anum Siregar — Indonesia Latifah Anum Siregar is a human rights lawyer, the chairperson of the Alliance for Democracy in Papua (ALDP) and an expert at the Commission for Law and Human Rights of the parliament in Papua Province, Indonesia. Although her family is from a different island, speaks a different language and practices a different religion, Siregar is a trusted, effective advocate for peace, working within the complex tribal and migrant conflicts of Papua communities. Respected for her and ALDP’s call to identify traditional laws, norms and values that could help settle land disputes, she has led the way to articulating these traditions in written law, which the Papua indigenous people can now use to negotiate with the government and migrants in the search for peaceful solutions to land conflicts. Susana Tenjoh-Okwen — Cameroon Susana Tenjoh-Okwen is a teacher, community peace mediator, facilitator promoting social and economic empowerment and respected gender activist who has peacebuilding experience in two provinces of Cameroon. A founding member of the Moghamo Women’s Cultural and Development Association and president of Moghamo Women’s Association, Tenjoh-Okwen has been working to address causes of long-standing, intertribal conflict that seldom makes international news, but that has resulted in division, displacement and trauma for communities in several regions.

Irina Yanovskaya — Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone Irina Yanovskaya, of South Ossetia in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone, is a journalist, lawyer, chair of the NGO Journalists for Human Rights, children’s advocate focused on post-conflict healing and peace education for children, as well as the mother of four, grandmother of one and a singer in her church choir. Devoted to resolving the conflict between Ossetians and Georgians, she is an outspoken critic of media that abuses and distorts public opinion. She was recognized in 2005 among the 1,000 women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to help war-traumatized children and women to overcome the horrors they have witnessed. To read more about the 2007 Women PeaceMakers, please visit: http://peace.sandiego.edu/programs/WPM/womenpeacemakers2007.html.

2007 Peace Writers The IPJ Women PeaceMakers are each assigned a peace writer who interviews them at length during their eight-week residency and produces a narrative of her peacemaker’s life and work. The 2007 peace writers were: Theresa de Langis de Langis is the immediate past executive director of the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women. She was the writer for Samia Bamieh of Palestine and is now the senior expert on gender and politics for UNIFEM Afghanistan.

Devon Haynie Haynie is a graduate of Colgate University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. After working with Irina Yanovskaya of South Ossetia, Haynie received a 2008 fellowship from the Overseas Press Club Foundation and is currently working for the Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Stelet Kim Kim received a graduate degree in International Comparative Education at Stanford University and undergraduate degrees in English and Spanish literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She documented the story of Latifah Anum Siregar and went on to work for the organization SAGE, or Standing Against Global Exploitation.

Women PeaceMakers in the News •RebeccaJoshuaOkwaci(2006)ofSudantestifiedbeforetheU.S.HouseCommitteeonForeignAffairsonMay15, 2008, in a session on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325: Recognizing Women’s Vital Contributions in Achieving Peace and Stability. •ShreenAbdulSaroor(2004)ofSriLankareceivedthe2008VoicesofCourageAwardfromtheWomen’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children for her work on behalf of women displaced by the war in Sri Lanka. •LatifahAnumSiregar(2007)ofIndonesiawasnominatedfortheannualFrontLineAwardbyFrontLine:The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, for her “outstanding contribution to the protection of human rights in the face of considerable personal risk.”

Samia Bamieh working with her peace writer, Theresa de Langis

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Before Sue, 2006 Peace

Writer, arrived to serve as the primary rapporteur for the Women PeaceMakers Summit in Oct. 2007, she

was already researching her task thoroughly, hounding me for whatever information I had on every participant. She even made herself a chart to keep track of each peacemaker: the year each was at the IPJ, the country each came from, and all the documentation available on each one – biography, narrative, update. The chart was color-coded. Just a day or two after the summit, Sue, Laura Taylor and I gathered around my desk, brainstorming how we were going to tackle the report, how we could capitalize on what we all saw as a momentous occasion – celebrating five years of the successful Women PeaceMakers Program, the exchange of strategies by 14 women who have dedicated their lives to creating peace out of sometimes nothing more than enmity and division. We tossed around ideas about structure and form and content; I watched as Sue and Laura sketched page layouts and the creative juices flowed. During the writing and editing of the final report, Sue very modestly wrote to me, “I forgot to mention one last thing: in reference to the pull-out quotes, I transcribed all of the MP3s … so they’re in written form if you need verification of those.” She had transcribed hours upon hours of audio recordings from the summit, totaling over 100 pages of transcripts. She then went on to hit every deadline given. Thorough. Creative. Multi-talented. Modest. Witty. Dedicated. Thoughtful. Passionate. There are thousands of words to describe Sue. But I will always describe her simply, but profoundly, as my friend.

Susan Van Schoonhoven died in a car accident on

Feb. 27, 2008. The 100-page publication on the fifth

anniversary of the Women PeaceMakers Program

and the final report from the summit was launched

two days before, at the Commission on the Status

of Women at the United Nations. To read more

about Sue, her work and comments from other

IPJ staff, peacemakers and peace writers, please

see http://peace.sandiego.edu/programs/WPM/

announcements/02-27-08SusanVanSchoonhoven.html.

In Remembrance of Susan Van Schoonhoven, 1971-2008 by Emiko Noma

Susana Tenjoh-Okwen reported during her residency as a Woman PeaceMaker in Fall 2007, “Cameroon … does not have any national war to attract attention. It just has these localized

disputes. If you are out of Cameroon, you will hardly know that there is any problem.” Institute Editor Emiko Noma and Kathy Sangha of IPJ’s film partner Sun & Moon Vision Productions (SMVP) traveled to the Central/West African country in April 2008 to observe first-hand these localized conflicts and document on film the peacemaking work of Tenjoh-Okwen. The pair – funded partly through a USD International Opportunities Grant – captured roughly 40 hours of footage in the capital, Yaounde, and in several North West Province locales, including some of the 22 villages of Batibo sub-division, where Tenjoh-Okwen works with the Moghamo people. The documentation includes footage of the two fons, or chiefs, involved in a long-standing chieftaincy dispute in the village of Ashong and official meetings of organizations co-led by Tenjoh-Okwen.

Connections established during the Women PeaceMakers Summit in Oct. 2007 were on display in Cameroon as well. Using the example of 2005 peacemaker Sister Pauline Acayo of Uganda, Tenjoh-Okwen has established peace clubs in secondary schools in and around Ashong. In the footsteps of radio journalist Rebecca Joshua Okwaci from 2006, the Cameroonian peacemaker has also been working with Foundation Radio in Bamenda to promote peace radio programs. Noma, Sangha and Tenjoh-Okwen appeared on the FM station’s program “Women’s Platform,” where they compared and contrasted the experiences of women in Cameroon and the United States. The footage gathered in Cameroon will be utilized in a forthcoming film of the WPM documentary series produced by SMVP, which currently includes

“Leading the Way to Peace” and “Reversing the Ripples of War.”

IPJ and Film Partner Document Peacemaking in Cameroon

Tenjoh-Okwen and Sangha filming in Cameroon (Photo courtesy of Sun & Moon Vision Productions)

Noma and Tenjoh-Okwen appearing on Foundation Radio (Photo courtesy of Sun & Moon Vision Productions)

Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding Draws USD Participants

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IPJ InsiderInstitute Conducts Briefing for Inter-American Defense College

English, Spanish and Portuguese flowed freely as 96 uniformed members of the Inter-American Defense College (IADC) discussed the role of civil society and gender in military

operations with IPJ program officers and staff. At the college’s request, the institute – the only nongovernmental organization to meet with IADC during their time in San Diego – convened a half-day special briefing, “Securing Peace with Justice,” on April 23, 2008. As recognized by IADC student Capt. Freddy Cabrera of Colombia, there is “an urgency of a close working relationship between military and civilian authorities to combat human rights violations.” In small group dialogues, the officers from over a dozen countries discussed formal and informal mechanisms of consulting with civil society in peace support operations, structures to address gender concerns, and their own best practices to address these themes to strengthen regional security. Capt. Mark Woolley, commander of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at USD and member of the institute’s Advisory Committee, remarked on the new partnership, “The New Maritime Strategy of the United States clearly emphasizes those activities that prevent war and build partnerships. This is a clear acknowledgement that peacekeeping, disaster relief and humanitarian operations in a coalition or partner environment have become increasingly important.”

IPJ Delegates Hold Two Events at the United Nations

The Dag Hammerskjold Library at the U.N. Headquarters and the Church Center

building just across First Avenue were the sites of two events presented by the IPJ at the 52nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held from Feb. 25-29, 2008. The one-hour documentary “Leading the Way to Peace,” which tells the stories of the 2004 Women PeaceMakers from Guatemala, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka, was well-received by an audience of over 235 men and women in the U.N. library. During the question-and-answer session featuring the film’s directors Kathy Sangha and Rebecca Sangha of Sun & Moon Vision Productions, executive producer Dee Aker and Stephanie Ziebell of UNIFEM (the event’s co-sponsor), the film sparked discussion on the role of religion in fueling and mitigating conflict, the protection of and defense of women’s rights, women’s access to and production of media, and how outside observers can effect change. As one viewer noted, “These women are risking their lives. They didn’t have a choice. We need to think about advocacy and how to support those who are on the frontlines.” The IPJ brought several more voices from the frontlines to a parallel event (reserved for select nongovernmental organizations and held across the street from the United Nations) entitled

“Women Ending Cycles of Violent Conflict: Strategies and Best Practices.” 2006 Women PeaceMakers Palwasha Kakar of Afghanistan and Svetlana Kijevcanin of Serbia joined Aker and IPJ staff members Erika Lopez, Emiko Noma and Laura Taylor on a panel to discuss stories of engaging women and youth in preventing manifestations of renewed violence.

From April 13-15, 2008 the University of Notre Dame hosted the Conference on the Future of

Catholic Peacebuilding, a capstone to a series of prior conferences, including the 2007 forum held in Colombia, attended by William Headley, dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and Interim Executive Director Dee Aker. Laura Taylor, senior program officer, joined Headley, Cristina Grisham of USD’s University Ministry and four undergraduate students from USD at this year’s conference. Headley delivered a presentation on Catholic social teaching and the practice of building

peace, while Taylor moderated a panel entitled, “A Practical Theology for Reconciliation.”

USD representatives at the Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding

R. Sangha, Aker, Ziebell and K. Sangha answer questions at the CSW

Recent Publications •Aker,Dee,EmikoNomaandLauraTaylor.“Endingviolenceagainstwomen.”San Diego Union-Tribune. 14 March 2008. •Noma,Emiko.“‘WomenCannotCryAnymore’:GlobalVoicesTransformingViolentConflict.” Critical Half. Vol. 5, No. 2. Fall 2007. •Taylor,Laura.“ErodingNationalandHumanSecurity:GenderedChallengesto Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Nepal.” Keynotes: Cranfield CSSM Case Study Series. Cranfield University Centre for Security Sector Management. September 2007. •TheIPJStaffBlogwaslaunchedinMay2008. Pleaseseehttp://peace.sandiego.edu/blog.

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Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies

On Oct. 17, 2007, USD officially inaugurated the new Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at a ceremony presided over by

actor Martin Sheen, Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett and university officials. Earlier in the year, William Headley, C.S.Sp., Ph.D. ,was named the founding dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and Lee Ann Otto, Ph.D., director of the M.A. program in Peace and Justice Studies, took on the role of associate dean. The school, established with a $40 million endowment from the estate of the late Joan Kroc, now encompasses the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, the Trans-Border Institute (specializing in U.S.-Mexico issues), USD’s graduate program in Peace and Justice Studies, and the Operations and Events department, which manages the building that houses the other three entities. Headley logged thousands of hours consulting “listening groups” with a variety of experts and stakeholders, including a two-day seminar in Nov. 2007 that brought together academics in the field from across the United States and beyond. By bringing in additional resources and personnel, the school will strengthen the institute’s capacity for peacebuilding. “We are not setting up something independently here, but we are immersing ourselves in something that is already happening,” Headley stated. The school plans to launch a revised and expanded curriculum for the M.A. program in Peace and Justice Studies in Fall 2009.

Newly Inaugurated Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies Gathers Steam

Alumni Around the World

Dean Headley addresses audience and (l-r) Hackett, Sheen, USD President Mary E. Lyons and Vice President of Mission and Ministry, Monsignor Daniel Dillabough

Jelena Cingel and Kathleen (O’Connor) Zanoni,‘06(M.A.),workat the International Rescue Committee and co-chair the United Nations Association of San Diego’s group, Young Professionals for International Cooperation (YPIC). Eugene Gatari,‘03(M.A.),workedasaconsultanttotheU.N.reformprocess from July 2007 to Jan. 2008. He is also developing joint programs and projects for different U.N. agencies – projects which will form the

“One Programme” of the United Nations. Peter Gathuru,‘03(M.A.),ranforparliamentinhishomedistrictinKenya,but was defeated by a nephew of the president. Tatyana Goloubenko,‘05(M.A.),workedfortheAllianceforAfricanAssistance as an interpreter and refugee case settlement manager. While continuing to volunteer for the alliance, she now works for National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) as a project manager, facilitating the job placement of refugees. In Fall 2007, she served as a translator for the IPJ Women PeaceMakers Program, working with Irina Yanovskaya of South Ossetia and her peace writer, Devon Haynie. Brynna Jacobson,‘05(M.A.),willbepartofanewsocialventurecalledJantaa, a technology company with a social bottom line aiming to support economic development, education and preservation of cultural traditions in underserved and impoverished communities around the world. Judy Kamanyi,‘03(M.A.),recentlyassistedtheUgandangovernmentasa facilitator in the national consultations on the Juba Peace Agreements’ Agenda Item Number Three on Accountability and Reconciliation. For the office of the prime minister and with support from the United Nations Development Programme, Kamanyi also helped developed a three-year

“Recovery and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme” for northern Uganda. Markella-Eleonora Mantika,‘06(M.A.),isadevelopmentconsultantforthe Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C. Sandra Medina,‘03(M.A.),receivedherM.B.A.inGlobalManagementat the Thunderbird School of Global Management and is a human capital consultant in the Atlanta office of Deloitte Consulting LLP. Susi Menazza Olmsted,‘03(M.A.),whowastheheadoftheNatureConservancy for the South Pacific island chain of Micronesia, has moved to The Hague and taken on a new global position on island policy and finance for the Conservancy. Heather Ranck,‘03(M.A.),recentlyspentthreeweeksservingastheacting senior commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, where she traveled the countryside promoting U.S.-made farm machinery. Tim Walsh,‘03(M.A.),isdirectorofspecialprojectsforElevate,aSan Diego firm doing marketing, public affairs and land development consulting. He also teaches classes on government and political theory as an adjunct professor at Palomar College.

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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL

R. Scott Appleby John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

Lloyd Axworthy President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Winnipeg

Jimmy Carter Founder/Trustee, The Carter Center; 39th President of the United States

Richard J. Goldstone Former Constitutional Court Justice, South Africa; former Chief Prosecutor, International Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. President Emeritus, University of Notre Dame

Jane Holl Lute Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations

Mary E. Lyons President, University of San Diego

Queen Noor of Jordan Chair, King Hussein Foundation

General Anthony Zinni U.S. Marine Corps (retired); Distinguished Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies

5998 Alcalá Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492

Phone: (619) 260-7509 Fax: (619) 260-7570

http://peace.sandiego.edu

Jael (Jordon) Collins (Summer 2002) is working as a paralegal specialist in the U.S. Small Business Administration’s office of Disaster Assistance Processing and Disbursement Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Lucas Cometto (Summer 2007) graduated from the University of Connecticut in May 2008 with a master’s degree in International Relations and is working in New York City as an editorial associate at the Foundation Center. Bree Del Sordo (Fall 2004) graduated in May 2008 from American University with an M.A. in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs. Kathryn Marshall (Summer 2005) returned from Uganda where she volunteered in a primary school and at a women’s microfinance project. Carolyn McMahon (Summer 2007) graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2008, earning a B.A. cum laude in Peace and Conflict Studies, with minors in French and History of Art. Marilyn Shapley (Fall 2006) is working as a legislative aide for U.S. Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.). Alissa Skog (Fall 2007) graduated from USD in May 2008 and is now in Gulu, Uganda, volunteering in a primary school. Dana Twal (Fall 2007) graduated from USD in Dec. 2007 and spent Spring 2008 interning with the United Nations Development Programme in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Alix Valenti (Fall 2005) works for a consultancy company in London called GHK, where she consults for the European Commission on projects ranging from consumer protection to building a European asylum support office to improve transnational judicial cooperation.

Intern Update

Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies University of San Diego

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

Summer 2008 Interns Azaam Samad, James Giganti, Benjamin Lee and Erica Embree

Fall 2007 Interns Ray Amberg, Ryan Millard, IPJ Program Officer Elena

McCollim, Dana Twal and Alissa Skog