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Stanford Report, August 4, 2004

Gandhi's grandson to speak at public peace symposium

Arun Gandhi, grandson of the late Mohandas Gandhi and director of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Memphis, Tenn., will be one of four speakers to make presentations during "Waging Peace: Practical Approaches to a Violent World," a day-long public symposium sponsored by the Aurora Forum on Saturday, Aug. 14.

Other speakers will include James Gilligan, a former prison psychiatrist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, now director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Pennsylvania; Michael Nagler, co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC-Berkeley and author of Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which won a 2002 American Book Award; and Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet (1971).

Registration for the symposium, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium, is $45 per person and includes lunch. Advance registration is requested. More information and a link to registration are available online at http://auroraforum.org/events/peace.asp.