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Post by bot on Apr 17, 2012 17:16:11 GMT -5
Peacebuilding in Utah USIP’s Jeff Helsing recently delivered a speech titled "The Many Dimensions of Peacebuilding" at the Seventh Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice at Utah Valley University in Orem. The three-day conference focused on "Remedies for Calamities across the Global Landscape." After Helsing’s talk, he and Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs at Yale University and research director of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature in Norway, answered audience questions on various subjects, such as the role of justice in peacebuilding, the links between poverty and conflict, and how changes in access to medicines and health care can help societies that are impoverished or are rebuilding after violent conflict. In his speech, Helsing said, “The goal of peacebuilding is not just to end war and stop violence, but to reconstruct and rehabilitate war-torn societies and strengthen the capacity of the people in those societies to resolve their differences peaceably.” Helsing is the dean of curriculum for USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, where he focuses on education in international relations, conflict resolution, human rights and peace studies. click.newsletters.usip.org/?qs=a035d8be71ea26f6938ac55b9c94ea3d8aad0a32d6c50bbf50ddcb210e378b49
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