Ashland Center for Nonviolence hosting conference Feb. 25-26

ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University is hosting the seventh annual John D. Stratton Conference, with this year’s theme being “Satyagraha: Nonviolence in the Gandhi-King Tradition.” It will take place Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26.

On Friday evening, keynote speaker David Ragland will present “Constructive Nonviolence and Reparative Justice” in the faculty room of the John C. Myers Convocation Center at 7 p.m. This event, co-sponsored by AU College of Arts and Sciences’ Symposium Against Indifference, is free and open to the public.

Ragland is a co-founder and co-executive director of the Truth Telling Project and the director of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign. He teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute and his scholarly work has been included as part of the “most important research on advocacy” by Georgetown University’s AdvocacyLabs. Ragland was recently inducted into the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College.

On Saturday, a conference, featuring a series of presenters from across disciplines, will start at 8:30 a.m., in the Dauch College of Business and Economics. Registration for the conference is required and can be completed at acn.nationbuilder.com.

For more information, please contact Elizabeth Buttil, assistant director of ACN, at ebuttil@ashland.edu or 419-289-5313.

The Ashland Center for Nonviolence 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.

Ashland University is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students.