LMU to host Peace Jam
Six Nobel Laureates will participate in the national social justice conference.
Clay Greaney
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: News
Not often do LMU students get the opportunity to listen to six Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Dalai Lama, but The Center for Service and Action's PeaceJam: "Global Call for Action" gives students the chance to do so.
The event, which is taking place September 11-13 will bring together Nobel Prize Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Betty Williams and Rigoberta Mench Tum to meet and speak with 1,500 high school students from around the world as well 1,000 students from schools in the greater Los Angeles area.
The weekend will also include a satellite address from the Dalai Lama in Gersten Pavilion.
CSA is looking for 200 LMU students to serve as a youth mentors at the event. At press time, they had less than 100 applications.
In September, 2006, 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners met in Denver, Colo. to discuss the problems the youth of the world will have to face as they grow, and what could be done to help them overcome these challenges. Each settled on a single global dilemma such as racism and hate, environmental degradation, access to clean water and extreme poverty.
Believing in the possibility for change, they decided they would go straight to the youth, telling their stories, hoping to serve as role models for peaceful action. They called their project PeaceJam and their chief goal was to initiate one billion acts of service around the world.
Since this historic congregation, PeaceJam has travelled to ten countries involving 600,000 youth.
Joanne Majewski, an administrator in CSA who is helping coordinate PeaceJam spoke of how LMU was chosen to host the event.
"Peace Jam 2008 was intended to take place in Costa Rica but for all sorts of reasons [the organizers] were forced to back out," she said. "When Jody Williams, one of the six Nobel Laureates, came last fall she was impressed with LMU's Camp Darfur and the responsiveness of our student body."
The event, which is taking place September 11-13 will bring together Nobel Prize Laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Betty Williams and Rigoberta Mench Tum to meet and speak with 1,500 high school students from around the world as well 1,000 students from schools in the greater Los Angeles area.
The weekend will also include a satellite address from the Dalai Lama in Gersten Pavilion.
CSA is looking for 200 LMU students to serve as a youth mentors at the event. At press time, they had less than 100 applications.
In September, 2006, 12 Nobel Peace Prize winners met in Denver, Colo. to discuss the problems the youth of the world will have to face as they grow, and what could be done to help them overcome these challenges. Each settled on a single global dilemma such as racism and hate, environmental degradation, access to clean water and extreme poverty.
Believing in the possibility for change, they decided they would go straight to the youth, telling their stories, hoping to serve as role models for peaceful action. They called their project PeaceJam and their chief goal was to initiate one billion acts of service around the world.
Since this historic congregation, PeaceJam has travelled to ten countries involving 600,000 youth.
Joanne Majewski, an administrator in CSA who is helping coordinate PeaceJam spoke of how LMU was chosen to host the event.
"Peace Jam 2008 was intended to take place in Costa Rica but for all sorts of reasons [the organizers] were forced to back out," she said. "When Jody Williams, one of the six Nobel Laureates, came last fall she was impressed with LMU's Camp Darfur and the responsiveness of our student body."
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