War and Peace as Liberal Arts
The twelfth annual Conversation on the Liberal Arts
February 21 - 23, 2013
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Adams 217
Ashley Padgett
The Christian Influence on the Adjusted Perceptions of Chemical Weapons
Stephen Contakes and Taylor Jashinsky
Chemistry, Social Responsibility and Modern Warfare
Adams 219
Matthew Beard
Virtuous Soldiers: A Role for the Liberal Arts? (Abstract)
Shannon French
Reducing Atrocities in Modern Combat Through Military Discipline and the Warrior’s Code of Honor
Winter 210
David Hoekema
Following War in Uganda: Lessons from Kony 2012
Paula Cronovich
The "NO" Campaign in Chile: Paving a Peaceful Transition to Democracy
Psychology Seminar Room
Joe Cole
Human Sacrifice in Walzer's Just War Theory (Abstract)
Cheryl Abbate
Assuming the Risk: A Critical Analysis of a Soldier's Duty to Prevent Collateral Damage (Abstract)
Math Seminar Room
Gary Tandy
Contemplation, Preparation, and Action: Peace Pilgrim's Prophetic Witness for our Time (Abstract)
Alden Stout
Pedagogy and Principled Thinking about War
Winter 106
Jeffry Davis
Albert Camus’ Response to a War-Torn World: the Embodiment of his Ethic in the Liberating Art of Drama
Marilyn McEntyre
Speaking Peace: Finding Words that Breach Walls
Winter 206
Hadassa Noorda
Travel Bans and Other Targeted Non-Physical Preventions of Terrorist Acts at the Interface of War and Peace (Abstract)
Daniel Brunstetter and Megan Braun
State of the Union: A Decade of Armed Drones (Abstract)
Winter 210
Nathanael Smith
Bringing the Women Home: Rape, Civil Society, and Spirituality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Abstract)
Cian O'Driscoll
Stoned Immaculate: Western Conceptions of Victory in War (Abstract)
Amit Ron
Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere
Winter 212
Clay Cooke
Investing in Justice: How a Liberal Arts Education Indirectly Promotes Peace (Abstract)
Stephen Paul Kennedy
What Has Become of Humanity?
Winter 216
David Western
A Humanistic Approach to Peace: the Liberal Art and Peacemaking; a Critique and a Proposition (Abstract)
Kevin Walker
Education in the "Strenuous Life" (Abstract)
Math Seminar Room
Brian Jones
YHWH is a Warrior
Brant Himes
The Common Good and Just Peacemaking: Abraham Kuyper's and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Discipleship for a Better Worldliness (Abstract)
Winter 106
Robert Williams
Arts and Letters, War and Peace: What Poets and Painters Can Teach Us about International Politics (Abstract)
Ron Hirschbein
International Crises: a Hermeneutic Approach (Abstract)
Winter 206
Nolen Gertz
A New Approach to Military Professionalism: On the Need for 'Soldier-Artists'
Michaeleen Kelly
Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion
Winter 212
Bryanna Beauchamp , Julianna Carlson, Emily Keach, Kathryn Hopper, Zoe Newcomb
Jus Ad Bellum as a Deciding Factor in the 1983 U.S. Invasion of Grenada
Chris Costenbader, Curtis Donahoe, David Dry, Joshua Miller, Steve Harvey
Just War, National Interests, and the Iraq War
Winter 216
Khalil Dokhanchi and Karl Bahm
Teaching War and Peace in Bosnia (Abstract)
Math Seminar Room
Ed Higgins
George Fox and Narratives of Peace and Activism in the Quaker Tapestry (Images) (Abstract)
Kathy Heininge
Virginia Woolf, Quaker Pacifist?