The 5^th Annual Undergraduate Conflict Transformation Conference

Thursday 18 April, 2013

Transitions, Taylor Hall. 

Session Times

Presentations:

Faculty Respondents

9.00 – 9.30

Light refreshments, informal conversations

9.30 – 10.45

Lindsey Imperioli: Gun Culture Comparison: Stories lived and told around the Dunblane school shooting

Rebecca Johnson: On being ‘Family’ at Ruby Tuesday

Alissia Kenton: Comparing the Yanadi of Andhra Pradesh and the Yanomami of the Amazon rainforest

Bryan Estep: Forgiveness in the Amish Community

Eric Fife

Shannon Johnson

Tatjana Magdelena

11.00 – 12.15

Ryan Durr: The San bushmen and their Ancient Knowledge

Gus Caldwell: Men Can Stop Rape: Shifting Attitudes, Definitions, and Patterns of Violence

Diana Oh: How the Semai of Malaysia maintain peace in the midst of violence

Hannah Holloway: How Beliefs of the Batek & Chewong Create Internal Coherence & Coordination

Tim Ball

Aimee Brickner

Isaac Woo

Janell Bauer

12.00 – 12.30

Light refreshments, informal conversations

12.30 – 1.45

Learning Exchange with EMU students: Students and faculty will discuss and compare different definitions, purposes, methods and approaches to the analysis of conflict at an open RoundTable discussion. Visitors are encouraged to contribute or leave to move to the Poster Session* or Refreshments

Terry Beitzel

Carlos Aleman

2.00 – 3.15

Rebekah Enns: Discourse, Identity, and Islam in America: Park51 as a Conversation on the Role of Muslims in Civil Society  

Rebecca Walker: The Inuits and Western Culture

Catherine Barsanti: Inuit Society and Language

Dalton Parker:  Learning from the Inuits of Utkuhikhalik and Qipisa

3.30 – 4.45

Julia Schmidt: Kurds Living in Turkey: Analyzing the Violence and Unrest

Gates Herscher: Amish Beliefs And Practices: Conflict not necessary

Kate Kenny: The Batek People of Malaysia: Insight into Peaceful Gender Relations

Charles Peacock: Implications of Peaceful Resistance: the Amish disregard for conventional technology

C. Leigh Nelson

Sharlene Richards

*Poster Session: ‘Conflict’ occurs at many different levels: international, national, state, local, organizational, and familial. Mediation is one method of encouraging peaceful dialogue among feuding parties regardless of the type of conflict. Students in SCOM 332: Mediation Skills have explored a variety of conflicts and the ways in which mediation was used to illicit a peaceful outcome