Global Issues Resource Center at Tri-C to Host 3rd Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution

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Cuyahoga Community College

Feb 10, 2010, 02:30 ET

CLEVELAND, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Issues Resource Center and Library at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C® ) will host the 3rd  International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE), "Building Infrastructures for Change: Innovations in CRE and Justice Initiatives," March 26-27 (Pre-Conference March 24 – 25), in partnership with U.S. colleges, universities, as well as, local, national, and international non-governmental and governmental organizations.  The conference and related events will be held on the Western Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road in Parma.

The 2010 conference will bring together government representatives from the United States and around the world, including Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Ghana, The Ukraine, Montenegro, Sierra Leone, and Japan, as well as, non-governmental organization partners who have legislation or policies in place to deliver conflict education and related topics such as civics and social and emotional learning at the K-12 level and in colleges and universities. Presentations will focus on innovations in the fields that are making broad impacts in local, state, national and international communities. Attendees will include college educators and students, K-12 educators, public health officials, prevention specialists, probation officers, juvenile detention officers, and state, local, national, and international policy makers.

Keynote presentations will include:

Friday, March 26

  • Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, United States Department of Education, "Federal Education Priorities and Creating Safe Schools"
  • Harold Saunders, Former Assistant Secretary of State, principal drafter of the Camp David Accords (1978) and a mediator of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (1979), "Transforming Racial and Ethnic Conflict: Lessons from the Field"
  • Sesame Workshop and Search for Common Ground, "The Power of Media to Promote Conflict Resolution"

Saturday, March 27

  • Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio, Summit Co. Juvenile Court, "Rerouting the Education-to-Prison Pipeline: Innovative Court/School Collaboration"
  • Dr. Lynn Singer, Deputy Provost, CWRU; Dr. Jerzy Nowak, Virginia Tech; Dr. Pat Coy, Kent State University; "University Responses to Violence:  Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, and Virginia Tech"

While the majority of conference events will occur at Tri-C, several pre-conference workshops and special events will occur March 24-25 at the Crowne Plaza Airport, 7230 Engle Road in Middleburg Heights.

Credits offered for the conference: Counselors, Social Work, Graduate, RCH, CEU and CHES. The Global Issues Resource Center at Tri-C is dedicated to educating citizens and leaders about critical issues affecting the local and international community. For more information or to register for the conference, visit http://creducation.org/cre/goto/3rd or contact Global Issues Resource Center at (216) 987-2224 or email [email protected].

SOURCE Cuyahoga Community College

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