MONDAY, NOV. 19, 2001
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 3A
Peace prize focus of class
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By Eve Lamborn Kansan staff writer
Elizabeth Wenger is learning about the peace process this semester from some of the world's leading authorities on the subject.
A one-time class — "War, Peace and the Nobel Peace Prize" — offered in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize, has brought a peace prize winner and a former adviser to the United Nations to the University of Kansas as guest lecturers.
Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, was a guest speaker on Oct. 11, and Peter van den Dungen, a former UN advisor, visited the class last Thursday.
"He's been one of the major figures in creating peace studies as a discipline in academia," said Carl Strikwerda, professor of history and the primary teacher of the class.
teacher of the class.
Wenger, Wichita junior, said she took the class only because a professor suggested it to her. But since then, she's discovered the importance of the peace process.
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She said learning about the peace process was often overshadowed by other concerns.
"I hadn't realized that there's such a defined tradition of peacemaking," she said.
"Since the mid-19th century, there been a definite movement to foster peace, which we don't learn about as much as we do the causes of war," she said. "The peace process, the alternatives to war and ways of avoiding it is important to keep in the uppermost parts of our minds."
Strikwerda said five to six people from the community regularly sat in on the lectures every week
"We've used the Nobel Prize as a springboard from which we built these classes and a dialogue," she said.
Diane Fourny, director of the Center for European Studies, put together a yearlong program to celebrate the Nobel Prize that included two special classes last semester and two this semester. The other one-time class this semester is "Rhetoric of the Nobel Prize."
He said several KU faculty members who had guest lectured in the course expressed an interest in developing a peace studies program at KU.
The outside speakers were sponsored by the Hall Center for Humanities, the Center for European Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Fourny said KU students might be able to earn a peace studies minor in about a year.
Guest speaker Peter van den Dungen, a former United Nations advisor, talks to students in the War, Peace and the Nobel Peace Prize" class.
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