[Peace] upcoming: 9/17 on Pakistan; 9/19, R. Gandhi on Israel/Palestine; (Fri [asmafaiz01 at gmail.com: Fwd: Important Events: Seminar and Discussion on Pakistan]

[Stuart Levy]

Some interesting things happening over the next few days, and
several are new (+ weren't in previous announcements):

+ Fri 9/17 Challenges facing Pakistan, Prof. Muhammad Waseem
  Sun 9/19 Non-Violence in Palestinian-Israeli Relations, Rajmohan Gandhi
+ Mon 9/20 Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda
  Tue 9/21 International Day of Peace events around C-U
	   - Brainstorming future educational events
	   - Haiku for Peace
	   - Candlelight Vigil
  Thu 9/23 "The Response", film based on Guantanamo Bay military tribunals
  Sat 9/25 Tagore Festival

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Fri Sep 17th   11am-noon (Int'l Studies)  &&  5-7pm  (ACDIS, Armory)
	Two events -- talk and informal discussion -- on
	challenges facing Pakistan, by Prof. Muhammad Waseem,
	leading Political Scientist of Pakistan, and currently
	the Ford Foundation Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

    11am-noon   Room 101, International Studies Building
		(910 S. 5th St., Champaign, near 5th and Chalmers)

	"Political and Security Perils of Post-Flood Pakistan"

    5pm-7pm     Room 356, Arms Control, Disarmament & Int'l
		Security (ACDIS) Conference room,
		in Armory building (505 E. Armory St.)

	Informal Discussion with Dr. Muhammad Waseem
	on the Challenges Facing Pakistan



Sun Sep 19th  2:30PM   Champaign Public Library rooms A+B

   "The Role of Non-Violence in Palestinian-Israeli Relations:
	 A Conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi"

    Presented by the UC Peace Initiative, and cosponsored by
    Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, U. of Illinois
    the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Rajmohan Gandhi
    is on the U of Illinois faculty, and is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.


Mon Sep 20th   3pm (UofI main Library) && 7pm (Independent Media Center)

    The public is invited to a talk and documentary screening
    by Dr. Tim Gallimore and Mr. Innocent Kamanzi of the
    UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
    on post-genocide justice and reconciliation.

    "Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda"

    * 3-5pm  UofI Main Library, room 66  (Gregory and 6th)
      Talk on the ICTR and Working for the UN

    * 7pm    Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, downtown Urbana

      "Beyond Justice" documentary film, with discussion to follow

	The Rwandan media were used to spread the ideology of genocide,
	to encourage and incite the general population to join in the
	government’s orchestrated killing campaign in 1994 and to
	identify individuals targeted to be killed.

	The documentary, featuring interviews with genocide convicts
	and survivors, Rwandan political and judicial leaders, and
	ICTR legal staff, presents highlights of the trial sessions,
	and explores the role of the Rwandan media, especially radio,
	in spreading genocide ideology and the propaganda of ethnic
	hatred to incite the population.

	This documentary analyzes the “Media Case” in which the United
	Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR)
	convicted the owners and journalists from RTLM and *Kangura*
	in December 2003 for using the media to commit the crime of
	genocide by inciting the Rwandan general population to murder.


    Sponsored by: The Center for African Studies,
	The Global Studies Program, The Center for Global Studies, and
	The Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS)

    For more information contact  Dr. Tim Wedig, twedig {at} illinois.edu


Tue Sep 21st  *International Day of Peace*  Several commemorations:

    5-6pm  Mennonite Church, Lincoln & Springfield Aves., Urbana
	Urbana-Champaign Peace Initiative invites all interested
	to a meeting: to recognize Peace Day by brain-storming
	future public educational sessions for peace.


    6:30pm  Church of the Brethren, 1201 N. Neil (Neil & Bradley)
	Mennonites and Church of the Brethren sponsor:
	*Haiku for Peace*
	Bring or compose a peace poem in haiku form.
	Conrad Wetzel mentioned this one:
	    Let us live for peace
	    All now live our lives for peace
	    All now live for peace


    7pm  "Alma Mater" statue, Green & Wright Sts., UofI campus

	Candlelight vigil.  Please join us, bring a candle if you have one,
	but please no signs -- this is a quiet commemorative event.
    

Thu Sep 23, 7pm, Channing-Murray Foundation (Oregon & Mathews, Urbana)
    Film, "The Response,"  " a courtroom drama based on the actual
    transcripts of the Guantanomo Bay military tribunals. . . .The film
    revolves around the trial of a suspected enemy combatant and the
    military judges who must decide his fate."
    Refreshments & discussion to follow.

    [Note: "The Response" was shown a few weeks ago by AWARE Films, but
    the attendees at the Channing-Murray event are expected to be a
    different group, so the discussion may be different as well]


Sat Sep 25, 5:30 pm--?, Channing-Murray Foundation (Oregon & Mathews, Urbana)

    Tagore Festival

    7 pm: Catered dinner.  $15.  Reservations required by 9/15.
    8 pm:  Keynote speech:  "Changing the World at Home: Rabindranath
    Tagore and the Concept of Social Change," by Tithi Bhattacharya,
    Associate Professor History, Purdue University.  Free.
      http://tagore.cba.uiuc.edu
    (Tagore was the first non-Westerner to receive the Nobel Prize for
    literature & a one-time resident of Urbana.)