CPREA

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CPREA MEETINGS WILL BE HELD IN UC 280 (UNIVERSITY CENTRE, ROOM 280),  CARLETON UNIVERSITY, 1125 COLONEL BY DRIVE,  OTTAWA, CANADA.
THURSDAY,  MAY 28, 2009
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Chair: Abu Bockarie, Faculty of Education,
University of Regina

Welcome Remarks:
Shreesh Juyal, President, CPREA, and Chairman,
International Commission on Disarmament, Security &  Peace

Keynote Speaker:
Roger Dittmann (Nuclear Physicist, University Professor, and President, United States Federation of Scholars and Scientists)
” Building Global Institutions: Armed Conflict, Human Rights and Justice”

Andrew M. Robinson, Wilfred Laurier University- Brantford Campus
Maristela Carrara, Independent Researcher

” How do victims of human rights violations in the Americas choose between the UN and the  Inter-American system of individual complaints”

Laura Harris, Brock University, St. Catherine, ON

” The role of citizen participation in the prevention of genocidal regimes”

Toivo Koivukoski, Vice-President CPREA, Nipissing University

“Our Barbarians, Ourselves: Towards a critical mode of inter-cultural discourse”

LUNCH BREAK   12:30- 2:00 p.m. (ON YOUR OWN)

AFTERNOON SESSION, MAY 28, 2009
2:00- 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Jiri Melich, Department of Political Science   & International Relations, Kazakhstan Institute of  Management, Economics, and Strategic Research  (KIMEP)

Susan Haslip, University of Ottawa, and Algonquin College

Victoria Edwards, National Defence Canada

“Marks, Arms, Crest or Flag: a consideration of the  appropriation of Aboriginal Symbols by the Canadian  Military and Defence industry”

David Tabachnick, Nipissing University

John Allison, Nipissing University

Toivo Koivukoski, Nipissing University

“Problematizing Peace: A critical analysis of the concept of Peace and its meaning for Agents of Peace”

Donia Mounsef, University of Alberta

” From Conflict to Conflict Resolution: Theatre Peace activism and experimentation in form”

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2009
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Chair: Stephanie Westlund, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, University of Manitoba

Jiri S. Melich, Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP)

” The war we harbor in our midst: The problem of  complicity”

Sara Koopman, University of British Columbia,

“Protective Accompaniment: Making Peace for Peace”

Christopher Hrynkow, University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and Canadian Mennonite University
Stephanie Westlund, University of Manitoba

Constructions of Nature in Peacebuilding: The  natural world as integral within Peacebuilding  context”

Hannah Moosa, University of Toronto

“Natural resources, conflict and cooperation:  enhancing sustainibility through environmental peacebuilding”

12:30-2:00 p.m.  LUNCH BREAK (ON YOUR OWN)

AFTERNOON SESSION, MAY 29, 2009
2:00- 5:00 p.m.

Chair: Donia Mounsef, University of Alberta

Mrs. Eryl Court, Unitarian-Universalists at the United Nations; Canadian Voices of Women for Peace; Hiroshima Day  Coalition

“Mobilizing our Forces for a World in one Peace”

Abu Bockarie, University of Regina

” Evolving conflicts and new challenges:  Non-Governmental Organizations and actors as Agents  of Peace Education in Third World societies”

Bradley Walchuk, York University

“International Labour Organization Conventions and  the Canadian Labour Organization: False hope, or an  expansion of workers’ rights”

Shreesh Juyal, International Commission on Disarmament, Security and Peace

“Nuclear Disarmament: Challenges for the 21st  century”

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009
10:30-12:00 p.m.

CPREA GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING

>   1. President’Report
>   2. Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
>   3. Membership with the Canadian Federation of the
>   Humanities and Social Sciences/Congress of
>   Humanities and Social Sciences
>   4. CPREA 2010 annual conference, dates, location and
>   guaranteed conference facilities and accommodation
>   for 30 persons, sponsorship & financing, general
>   theme.
>   5. Motions
>   6. Election: President, Vice President, Secretary,
>   Treasurer, Public Relations Secretary, and several
>   Executive Council members