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PAST EVENTS

June 23-30, 2007

Boston, Massachusetts
Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict
The second annual executive education program in the advanced interdisciplinary study of nonviolent conflict for representatives of the media, civil society, international organizations and the policy world.

 

January 15, 2007

Los Angeles, California
Interfaith Council Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
Jack DuVall was keynote speaker at a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Interfaith Council. Read his remarks here.

 

December 4, 2006
1:30 - 5:30pm

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation
Maria Stephan to be panelist on Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of our Era. (PDF)
Ropes Gray Room (Pound Hall), Harvard Law School.

 

July 23-29, 2006

Boston, Massachusetts
Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict
The first-ever, advanced interdisciplinary study of nonviolent conflict for representatives of the media, civil society, international organizations and the policy world.

 

June 29-July 3, 2006

International Peace Research Association's biennial conference
Calgary
Hardy Merriman will speak on the following panels:
"Perspectives on nonviolence research beyond Gandhi and Gene Sharp: Does more need to be said?", and "Challenging terrorism with nonviolence theory and practice"

 

June 27-28, 2006

Games for Change annual conference
New York
Hardy Merriman will speak at the "Peace Games & International Efforts" panel and the Games Expo.

 

June 21-25, 2006

Glasgow, Scotland
CIVICUS World Assembly
Dr. Peter Ackerman to deliver plenary remarks: The Right to Rise Up
Workshop on "Harnessing People Power: Principles for Success" with Jack DuVall, Shaazka Beyerle and Srdja Popovic (Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, Belgrade)
ICNC exhibit and demonstrations of "A Force More Powerful - The Game of Nonviolent Strategy"

 

June 4-7, 2006

Colorado College, Colorado Springs
People Power and Pedagogy: A Workshop for Educators
An intensive review of teaching and research on strategic nonviolent action for educators and scholars.

 

June 2-4, 2006

Paris, France
Salon internationale des Initiatives de Paix
Shaazka Beyerle to co-facilitate workshop on "Nonviolent Action for Human Rights"
Workshop tutorial to play "A Force More Powerful - The Game of Nonviolent Strategy"
ICNC exhibit and demonstrations of "A Force More Powerful" game

 

May 11, 2006
8:00 pm

California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Social Activism Speaker : Featured Speaker Jack DuVall
Beckman Institute Auditorium, Caltech

 

April 12, 2006

New York
Columbia University Teachers College
Shaazka Beyerle speaks in panel on "A Force More Powerful Than Violence"

 

March 27, 2006

3rd International Gathering for the Culture of Peace, 2006
Barcelona, Spain
Address by Jack DuVall, "Civilians in Nonviolent Conflict: Possibilities for Nongovernmental Civic Forces in Seeking Rights and Justice," Palau de Generalitat (Catalan Autonomous Government),

 

March 24-25, 2006

“Democratic Transitions in Europe and Latin America: What Relevance for the Arab World?”
Madrid, Spain
Workshop held by Fundacion Para Las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior (FRIDE),
Jack DuVall, moderator of Session III, “Civil Society: Building Reform Movements”(PDF), with Jorge Romano of Action Aid Americas, and Oleksandr Bohomolov of the Centre for Middle East Studies, Ukraine.

 

March 22-25, 2006

International Studies Conference
San Diego, CA
Paper presented by Dr. Maria Stephan, "Nonviolent Insurgency: The Role of Civilian-Based Resistance in Three Self-Determination Conflicts."
Town and Country Conference Center
ICNC exhibiting at Conference

 

March 17-19, 2006

The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The University of Queensland
Nonviolence Workshop
Jack DuVall and Hardy Merriman speak on a panel on "The Role of Nonviolent Strategy in Combating Terror and the Terrorist Threat"
Hardy Merriman presents A Force More Powerful—The Game of Nonviolent Strategy
Hardy Merriman speaks on "The Four Levels of Strategic Planning in Nonviolent Struggle"

 

March 15, 2006 7:30pm

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Fourth Annual Peace and Justice Lecture: Featured Speaker Jack DuVall
"Defiance and Liberation, The People's Power and The People's Rights" Remarks by Jack DuVall (PDF)

 

March 1, 2006 7:00pm

Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
Polovny Lectureship in International Studies: Featured Speaker Jack DuVall, "The Right to Rise Up: People Power and the Virtues of Civic Disruption" (PDF)
Wriston Auditorium

 

February 10-11, 2006

University of Calgary, Canada
Society for Military and Strategic Studies Conference on War and Security: From Conflict to Resolution
Paper presented by Dr. Maria Stephan, "The Role of Nonviolent Struggle in the Western Sahara Conflict"
MacEwan Hall Conference Centre

 

December 27-30, 2005

Celebrating Nonviolent Resistance - Conference
Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories
ICNC: Conference exhibitor, film screenings
Strategic nonviolent action workshops co-facilitated by Shaazka Beyerle

 

August 24-27, 2005

First Global International Studies Conference
Istanbul, Turkey
"Bringing International Studies Together:
Contrasting Approaches and Agendas"
Bilgi University
ICNC exhibit at conference

 

July 12, 19, & 26; August 2, 9& 16, 2005
7:30-8:30pm

Sparta United Methodist Church
Sparta, NJ
“A Force More Powerful,” film series with discussion on six consecutive Tuesdays
Sponsored by the Northwest New Jersey Peace Fellowship
71 Sparta Avenue, Sparta, NJ

 

July 30, 2005
9:30am

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Pomona, California
"Educating About People Power: New Ideas and New Tools in Teaching Nonviolent Struggle," Talk by Jack DuVall.
Summer Institute for K-12 Educators, "Nonviolence and Social Change,"

 

April 19, 2005 4:00pm

The 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Bangkok, Thailand
People Power - Fighting Corruption, Marginalizing Terrorists, Session led by Peter Ackerman
Meeting Room 1

 

April 18-25, 2005

The 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Bangkok, Thailand
ICNC is Exhibiting at Booth #8 in the Exhibit Hall

 

February 10, 2005 7:30pm

Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
John B. Davis lecture hall on campus

 

November 22, 2004

Vienna International Center
Vienna, Austria
Screening of excerpts of "A Force More Powerful" and "Bringing Down a Dictator" Remarks by Peter Ackerman and General Discussion
Event sponsored by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and the UN Information Service

 

November 11-12, 2004

Southampton Institute Conference Center
Southampton, England
The Error in 'Terrorism': Political Violence and the Media

 

October 21, 2004

Rothko Chapel, Rice University
Houston, TX
As part of the Speak Truth To Power series there will be a screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with an open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
The Rice Media Center

 

October 20, 2004

University of Texas
Austin, TX
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
University Teaching Center 105 W. 21st ST, 4th Floor, Room 124 (UTC 4.124)

 

October 7, 2004

Swarthmore College
Philadelphia, PA
Jack DuVall Panelist, The Role of the US Abroad; co-panelists will be Andrew J. Bacevich (Boston University) and Phyllis Oakley (former Asst Secretary of State).
Listen to Jack DuVall on audio file, fast forward to 42:45 minutes in the October 7 program.
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the DuPont Science Center on the Swarthmore campus.

 

October 6, 2004

Friends School
Baltimore, MD
Screening of "A Force More Powerful: Chile" followed by Q&A led by Kim Hedge; for the More Powerful than War Film Series

 

September 30, 2004

New Tactics in Human Rights, International Symposium
Ankara, Turkey
Sponsored by the Center for Victims of Torture: Shaazka Beyerle, Vice President, ICNC and Ivan Marovic, OTPOR, conducting a Workshop on "Creating and Investing in Strategy"

 

September 19, 2004

All Souls Unitarian Church
New York, NY
Jack DuVall appearance on behalf of Paul Loeb's book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While,
Speaking with theologian Walter Wink and activist/speaker Jim Hightower; event sponsored by The Nation Institute (affiliated with the magazine)

 

September 14, 2004

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas
Lou Douglas Lecture, Jack DuVall Power ‘by the People’: Ending the World’s Nightmare of Oppression and Violence (PDF)
K-State Student Union Forum Hall

 

August 18, 2004 7:00pm

Politics and Prose Bookstore
Washington, DC
Jack DuVall appears with Paul Loeb for the book The Impossible Will Take a Little While

 

August 2-6, 2004

California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA
Islam and the Middle East Teachers Conference FIRST (Fullerton International Resources for Students and Teachers) Workshop on: Is there any reason for optimism in the Middle East? Promising Developments, Civilian-Based Power, and Potential for a Democratic Future with Shaazka Beyerle and Abderrahim Sabir, Senior Program Associate, Human Rights Education Associates.
Workshop August 6, 2004 - 8-10AM

 

July 12, 2004
6:30pm

Portland State University
Portland, OR
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
Smith Ballroom, Smith Memorial Union 355, 1825 SW Broadway

 

June 29, 2004
Noon - 1pm

Secretary's Open Forum - The Department of State
Washington, DC
The Rise of Civilian-Based Struggle and Democratic Change
Distinguished Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Ackerman
Loy Henderson Auditorium

Video of the Speech (Windows Media)
> Segment 1
> Segment 2
> Segment 3
> Segment 4

 

June 5, 2004
1:15 pm

La Salon international des Initiatives de Paix à la Cité des sciences et de l'industrie de la Villette
Paris, France
UNE FORCE PLUS PUISSANTE, UN SIÈCLE DE LUTTE NON-VIOLENTE
L'Institut de Recherche sur la Résolution Non-violente des Conflits (IRNC) vous invite à la projection du film L'Afrique du sud : « De Notre vivant, la liberté » (un extrait « d'une Force Plus PUISSANTE ») sera suivie d'une conférence-débat avec Jack DuVall.

 

May 19, 2004, 10:00am

National Press Club "Newsmaker" Conference
Washington, DC
The Rise of Civilian-Based Power Building Democracy and Global Security from the Bottom Up; Peter Ackerman is the featured speaker
National Press Club, Zenger Room

 

May 6, 2004, 7:00pm

Colorado College
Colorado Springs, CO
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
McHugh Commons

 

April 21, 2004

Columbia University
New York, NY
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open discussion led by Shaazka Beyerle
School of International and Public Affairs, International Affairs Building (IAB) Room 418

 

March 1-3, 2004

Borah Symposium - "Strategic Nonviolent Conflict"
University of Idaho, Martin Institute
Moscow, ID
The Borah Foundation will team with the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict to present the 2004 symposium, "Strategic Nonviolent Conflict". Participants will discuss ways in which organized nonviolence can topple dictatorial regimes or force changes in repressive social systems. Participants from ICNC include Dr. Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall, Berel Rodal and Shaazka Beyerle.

 

February 24, 2004

Emory University, Institute of Comparative and International Studies
Atlanta, GA
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by a panel discussion with Jack DuVall
White Hall 208, 7:30 pm

 

January 27, 2004

Georgia Tech University
Atlanta, GA
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by a panel discussion with Jack DuVall
The School of Public Policy

 

January 23, 2004

Pacific Cultural Center
Santa Cruz, CA
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
The event is sponsored by The Meridian News

 

January 22, 2004

University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
Namaste Day Lounge at Colleges Nine and Ten

 

January 21, 2004

Monterey Institute of International Studies
Monterey, CA
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
Irvine Auditorium

 

December 9-11, 2003

World Electronic Media Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
An Event of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
ICNC Workshop on Global Media and Conflict: Violence, Nonviolent Power and Democratic Change

 

October 28, 2003

University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Public Service Reel to Reel Film and Discussion Series: Bringing Down a Dictator.
Sponsored by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the Peabody Awards, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, and the Center for Humanities and Arts. Final screening in the 2003 series is a PBS documentary on the defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000. Discussion facilitated by Jack DuVall, Director, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. 7:00 PM. Seney Stovall Chapel, 201 North Milledge Avenue. Contact: allen@cviog.uga.edu or eholder@uga.edu.

 

October 11, 2003

Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
"Fostering Alternatives to Violence" - Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator" and remarks by Jack DuVall (scroll down linked page)

 

October 9, 2003

Adelphi University
Garden City, NY
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", remarks by Jack DuVall, and an open forum
Student review of lecture: The Delphian, DuVall Lecture, by Nicholas Morgan
Ruth S. Harley University Center, Second Floor, 6:00 p.m.

 

October 4, 2003

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Panel discussion on Denmark's resistance to the Nazis and the rescue of Danish Jews in World War II, part of a symposium sponsored by Humanity in Action and the Woodrow Wilson School
Jack DuVall will be a panelist, along with Ulrik Federspiel, Denmark's ambassador to the U.S., and Dr. Bo Lidegaard, author of Defiant Diplomacy: Henrik Kauffmann, Denmark, and the United States in World War II and Cold War, 1939-1958.
Dodds Auditorium (in Robertson Hall), Woodrow Wilson School. (Location: http://www.princeton.edu/cgi/map)

 

September 18, 2003

Arizona Institute for Peace Education and Research and the Department of Justice Studies
Arizona State
Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator" and Remarks by Jack DuVall

Arizona State University College of Law, Room 105, 6:30pm

 

August 26, 2003

Bluffton College
Bluffton, Ohio
Opening Convocation Speech by Jack DuVall: "Liberation Without War: The Emerging Era of Nonviolent Conflict"

 

May 7, 2003

Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
State University Of New York, Stony Brook
Limits & Opportunities of Nonviolent Resistance: Lessons from History & Current Conflicts

 

April 19, 2003

Lester B. Pearson College
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Seminar: Talking in Public about alternatives to violence

 

November 25, 2002

University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Screening of Bringing Down a Dictator: Nonviolent Action and Regime Change

 

June 25, 2002

EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Screening hosted by David Kilgore, M.P. and Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), Canada
Canadian Premiere Screening and Discussion of Bringing Down a Dictator

 

June 15-16, 2002

Education for Peace in Iraq Center
Washington, DC
Forum Prospects for Democracy in Iraq

 

April 2002

Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Medford, Massachusetts
Advance Screening and Discussion of Bringing Down a Dictator

 

January 14, 2002

U.S. Institute of Peace
Washington, DC
Institute Public Meeting
Nonviolent Struggles Against Repressive Regimes, The Role of the International Community

 

March 31, 2001

Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
Sixth Annual Symposium on Violence

 

June 12, 2000

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
A Freedom Forum Presentation
Screening and Panel Discussion of A Force More Powerful

 

December 14, 2000

U.S. Institute of Peace
Washington, DC
Book Reading and Discussion with Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall

 

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Radio & Television

December 3, 2004

Revolution, Inc, interview with Ivan Marovic
On the Media, from National Public Radio

 

November 23, 2004

Jack DuVall interview on Nonviolent Conflict
Hawaii Public Radio, News Interview (scroll down)

 

November 28, 2003

Peter Ackerman on "Bringing Down a Dictator" and the Nonviolent Uprising in Georgia
National Public Radio, "Morning Edition"

 

July 29, 2003

Prospects of Nonviolent Conflict in Iran with Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall.
Radio Farda (Voice of America’s Iran service)

 

January 15, 2003

Interview on THE WORLD with Jack DuVall on Iraq
Windows Media file [Provided courtesy of PRI's THE WORLD]

 

October 16, 2002

Program on Regime Change in Iraq
Pacifica Radio
The Pacifica Radio Foundation

 

Summer, 2002

"A Force More Powerful on Book TV" (Quicktime)
Interview with Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall
Calgary, Canada

 

March 17, 2002

Interview with Peter Ackerman, Steve York, Srdja Popovic
On "Bringing Down a Dictator"

CNN Sunday Morning

 

2002

Nonviolent Solutions in the Middle East
ON POINT interview with Jack DuVall
WBUR
Boston, Massachusetts

 

2000

The Bob Rivers Show (see Jack DuVall)
KZOK 102.5 FM
Seattle, Washington

 

2000

Worldview (scroll down to February 14)
Audio on Demand; Chicago Public Radio
Chicago, Illinois

 

2000

RadioNation
Nation Institute
New York, NY

 

2000

Catholic Communication Network
Catholic Online
Bakersfield, California

 

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