ACN’s “Spirit of Peace” conference taking place on March 20-21
ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland Center for Nonviolence (ACN) at Ashland University will host the 11th annual John D. Stratton Conference on Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, featuring an interreligious panel discussion that is free and open to the public on Friday evening. This year’s conference theme is “The Spirit of Peace.”
Through the development of “The Spirit of Peace,” the conference will explore how spiritual, religious and contemplative traditions understand, articulate and display peace commitments. It will analyze enduring global peacemaking movements which often draw their strength from spiritual sources, such as practices of prayer and meditation, prophetic traditions, rituals of healing and forgiveness and visions of interconnectedness and beloved community.
The conference will kick off March 20, at 7 p.m., with three religion experts from northeast Ohio discussing “The Spirit of Peace” in room 115 of the Dauch College of Business and Economics. The panelists are Semiha Topal, Ph.D., program manager for the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding at John Carroll University, Ellen Posman, Ph.D., chair of the department of religion at Baldwin Wallace University and Heidi Eddy, adjunct professor at Ashland University, while Craig Hovey, Ph.D., director of ACN, will serve as moderator.
On March 21, there will be an all-day academic conference, consisting of a series of presenters and workshops across disciplines, at AU’s Dauch College of Business and Economics from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Registration is required and can be completed at ashland.edu/acn.
ACN, in its 22nd year, promotes alternatives to violence through education, training and building relationships that foster awareness and consideration of issues related to nonviolence and social justice, and supports ways to create a caring community that is inclusive and just.
For more information, please contact Shelley Karl, assistant director of ACN, at skarl@ashland.edu or 419-289-5313.