Jack Duvall, Nonviolent Conflict Expert Speaker at UI and LCSC March 2-3
Friday, February 27 2004
Feb. 27, 2004^MOSCOW -- Jack DuVall, president of the International Center on Non-Violent Conflict, will make presentations on two local campuses March 2-3.^At 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 2, in the University of Idaho's SUB Ballroom, he and other experts will show how to “Make Nonviolent Liberation Work," by discussing how the ideals of nonviolence might apply in North Korea or Cuba. This presentation is part of the March 1-3 Borah Symposium on non-violent conflict.^Wednesday, March 3, at noon in the LCSC Library, Duvall also will lead a discussion at Lewis Clark State College after showing a half-hour segment of the documentary "A Force More Powerful, A Century of Nonviolent Conflict."^Duvall is the founding director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and the executive producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS series "A Force More Powerful." His visit is sponsored by UI's 2004 Borah Symposium March 1-3. ^All Borah events are free and open to the public. Keynote speaker at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, in UI's SUB Ballroom is Lech Walesa, former Polish president and Solidarity leader. He will recount the successful challenge to the USSR government in the1980s using such a tactic. Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 for leading the labor strike in Gdansk, Poland, where Lenin Shipyard workers fought the Communist government for free trade unions. He now heads the Lech Walesa Institute, to advance democracy and free market reform.^The Borah Symposium is an annual event sponsored by the William Edgar Borah Outlawry of War Foundation to address causes of war and ways to achieve a lasting peace. All events are free and open to the public. A complete schedule is at www.martin.uidaho.edu/borah/2004_symposium.html.^MEDIA NOTE: Duvall is available for one-on-one contacts with the media from Monday, March 1 to Thursday, March 4. He may be contacted at his cell phone (703) 626-1750 or by e-mail jduvall@nonviolent-conflict.org, marshill@worldnet.att.net. Other contacts: Bill Smith, Martin Institute, (208) 885-2815, bills@uidaho.edu; or Nancy Hilliard, University Communications, (208) 885-6567, hilliard@uidaho.edu^-30-NH-2/27/04-MPI
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