Developing Peace: Education for Mutual Understanding
Fourth Annual Conference of the International Education Program
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development,
New York University
Friday, March 6, 2009
Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
New York, New York
Developing Peace: Education for Mutual Understanding
Fourth Annual Conference of the International Education Program
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University
Friday, March 6, 2009
Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
New York, New York
Conference Co-chairs:
Elizabeth Hanauer, Fabrice Jaumont, Karleigh Koster, Naomi Moland, Jane Ross, and
Alexandra Wood
Conference Committee:
Jenny Auerbach, Christian Bracho, Amy Kapit, Athena Maikish, Marty McGivern,
Carolyn Sattin, Lauren Sinclair, Rachel Wahl, Ashleigh White
Conference Advisors:
Philip Hosay, Cynthia Miller Idriss, Dana Burde
Message from the Organizing Committee:
We are pleased to welcome you to “Developing Peace: Education for Mutual
Understanding,” the fourth annual International Education conference at NYU. This
conference was first conceptualized as a space where scholars from various disciplines
could meet and discuss issues related to the field of international education. This year, the
participants represent over a dozen universities and organizations from across the country
and around the globe. The presentations at this year's conference help to portray the range
and diversity of topics that scholars and educators contribute to this growing field.
Moreover, they allow us to consider the fundamental role that education plays in efforts
to develop peace and understanding in a changing and complex global environment.
This event could not have been possible without the dedicated work of the International
Education students and the support of faculty and staff within the Steinhardt School of
Culture, Education and Human Development. In particular, we would like to thank our
co-sponsors and the members of our advisory committee, who have been very generous
with their time and resources. We also would like to extend special thanks to the
discussants, whose expertise is an invaluable contribution to the conference. Their
participation, along with the panelists, represents a collaboration of many universities in
New York City.
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Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00AM: Breakfast
Lounge, Pless Hall 82 Washington Square East
9-9:50AM: Welcome and Keynote Address
Lounge, Pless Hall 82 Washington Square East
Welcome by Philip Hosay, Director and Professor, International Education
Program, New York University
Keynote by Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and
Center on International Cooperation (NYU), United Nation Under-Secretary
General in Charge of Peace Keeping 2000-2008
10-11:30AM: Scholars at Risk Panel
Lounge, Pless Hall 82 Washington Square East
Promoting Academic Freedom: Global Perspectives
Ms. Clare Robinson, Program Officer, Scholars at Risk Network
The Scholars at Risk Network: Peace Through Academic Solidarity
Dr. Galina Shaton, Vivian G. Prins Global Fellow and Visiting Professor of
International Education, New York University
Belarus: Challenges for International Education and Academic Freedom
Dr. Befekadu Degefe, Visiting Professor of Economics, The New School
Ethiopia: Academic Freedom and Higher Education
Dr. Marisa Escribano, Scholars at Risk Network staff
Responses to Academic Freedom Repression
11:30-1:00PM: Lunch Provided
Lounge, Pless Hall 82 Washington Square East
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Developing Peace: Education for Mutual Understanding
Presentations of Research
SESSION I: 1:00-2:15PM
Session I
Panel 1: Education, Access, and Diversity
Discussant: John Gershman
Location: Lounge, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
Carina Omoeva Access and Quality in Basic Education: Is there a tradeColumbia University off?
Rachel Wahl UNESCO’s Response to Cultural Diversity in Developing
New York University Nations
Universal Primary Education in Ghana: Investigating
Athena Maikish
New York University Local Level Effects through Multilevel Modeling
Panel 2: Curriculum and Controversy: case studies from three countries
Discussant: Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, 246 Greene St, Kimball Hall
Jennifer Auerbach The Gulen Movement: The role of Islamic modernism in global
New York University civil society
Radek Rybkowski Teaching about the Holocaust: History for the future
Jagiellonian University, Poland
Alexandra Wood Controversy and the Social Studies: Curriculum as a
New York University challenge to national identity
Panel 3: “Creating” Peace: Citizenship education through the arts
Discussant: Rene Arcilla
Location: 5th floor Conference Room, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
Utilizing the Arts as Effective Platforms for
Mathew Thomas
Peace and Global Citizenship Education
Columbia University
Urban Art as Multicultural Education: A Finnish case
Inka Juslin
study
University of Tampere
Pennylane Shen Inescapable Ethnicity: Inside and outside the Chinese
New York University identity
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SESSION 1I: 2:30-3:45PM
Session II
Panel 1: Teaching Tolerance and Exploring Culture in the Classroom
Discussant: Frank Tang
Location: Lounge, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
The Role of Community Organizations in the International
Elizabeth Larson
Education of Public Schools: Educators cry for help and
American University
non-profits answer the call
Ashleigh White
Third Culture Kids in International Schools
New York University
Isabel Kentegian Facilitating Global Citizenship: The Earth Charter in the
New York University language classroom
Panel 2: Western Education Overseas: Higher education trends in the Middle East
Discussant: David Austell
Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, 246 Greene St, Kimball Hall
Rachel Marcus
Institute of International Education IIE Middle East Student Mobility
Elizabeth Hanauer Exporting Higher Education: Offshore campuses in the
New York University Middle East
Liz Knauer
Simplifications and Subjugations: Orientalism, Resistance
New York University
and NYU Abu Dhabi
Panel 3: Paths to Understanding in Development Education: Examples from Africa
Discussant: Carolyn Kissane
Location: 5th floor Conference Room, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
Julia Fefferman VideoPals: A South African Case Study
New York University
Naomi Moland Takalani Sesame: Teaching about diversity through
New York University educational television in South Africa
Fabrice Jaumont
New York University
The Impact of the Relationship between Foundations and
Universities on Africa’s Development Agenda
Lauren Sinclair
NYU and the Era of Internationalization
New York University
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SESSION III: 4:00-5:00PM
Session III
Panel 1: Educating for Peace in Times of Conflict and Tension
Discussant: Radek Rybkowski
Location: Lounge, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
The “us vs. them” Muslims in North America’s Context:
Amani Hamdan
Ottawa teaching about the “other” in the time of war
Amy Kapit Palestinian Identity and Education in Jordan
New York University
Simple Ideas, Complex World: An examination of voices
Liz Knauer
among participants and affiliates of youth exchange and
New York University
study Afghanistan
Panel 2: Examining Mutual Understanding in Overseas Educational Exchange
Discussant: Philip Hosay
Location: 3rd Floor Conference Room, 246 Greene St, Kimball Hall
Students, Educators, Diplomats: AFS and early study
Karleigh Koster
New York University abroad
Peace Corps Volunteers: Educators and public diplomats
Martha McGivern in Latin America
New York University
Field-based Learning for Developing Peace and Mutual
Kanthie Athukorala
Understanding: Lessons learned and the future
School for International Training
Graduate Institute possibilities
Panel 3: Students and Teachers: Increasing understanding inside and outside the classroom
Discussant: Fernando Naiditch
Location: 5th floor Conference Room, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
Personal Mythology as a Vehicle for Cultural and
James McGarry
Interpersonal Understanding: Observations from a course
Plymouth State University
for teachers at the Shanghai American School
Christian Bracho
¡Estamos Hartos!: Teachers, resistance, and social
New York University
movement in Oaxaca
Nicole Nguyen
Literacy Education: Reading and writing for peace?
New York University
5:00-6:00: Closing Remarks by Dean Mary Brabeck and Reception
Lounge, Pless Hall, 82 Washington Square East
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Speaker Bios
Welcome
Philip M. Hosay is Professor and Director of International Education and Director of the
Multinational Institute of American Studies. He holds the M.A. and Ph.D. in American
History from the University of Michigan. Among his publications are The Challenge of
Urban Poverty, The Dictionary of American Biography, and an Outline Series in
American Studies for the United States Information Agency. Under his direction, the
Multinational Institute has received over $6,500,000 in funding from the United States
Information Agency, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment of the
Humanities, and various Fulbright commissions. He has served as a consultant for the
U.S. State Department in Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Armenia, Belarus,
Russia, Japan, Korea and Thailand, and has lectured at a number of foreign universities,
including the Institute d'Études Politiques, Université Strasbourg, St. Petersburg
University, Thammasat University and Chonnam National University. Most recently, he
gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association of
Thailand and the American Studies Association of Korea, and he was a Senior Fullbright
Specialist in Turkey. His research interests include public diplomacy, the study of the
United States in other countries, and international educational and cultural exchange. He
is currently writing a history of American public diplomacy.
Keynote
Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center on
International Cooperation (New York University). He is also a special adviser of the
Secretary General of the United Nations for regional cooperation.
Previously, as the Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operations from 2000 to
2008, became the longest-serving head of peacekeeping. He led the biggest expansion of
peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. In this role, he oversaw a budget of
7bn US$, which supports the deployment of over 100000 personnel in 18 different
operations.
Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Guéhenno had a distinguished career in the
French Government and in the private sector. Mr. Guéhenno was the director of policy
planning in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1993. He has also been
ambassador to the Western European Union, and chairman of the French Institute of
Higher Defense Studies.
Mr. Guéhenno has published articles in many newspapers and magazines, and is the
author of the End of the Nation-State (1993). Mr. Guéhenno has been a professor at the
ENA and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris.
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Scholars at Risk Program
Clare Robinson is the Program Officer of Scholars at Risk. Ms. Robinson oversees
SAR's domestic network development and organizes SAR activities, placements and
outreach within the US. She holds an MA in Politics/International Relations from NYU,
where her work focused on human rights, nationalism and ethnic conflict in South East
Asia. Prior to moving to New York, Ms. Robinson was a Public Information Officer in
the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Galina Shaton is a Vivian G. Prins Global Fellow at New York University, where she
teaches at the Steinhardt School of Education. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from
Byelorussia State University, where she taught for seventeen years, and is the former
recipient of a Fulbright fellowship. Professor Shaton was instrumental in establishing
ENLIVA University, the first private women's university in the former Soviet Union,
where she served as Vice Rector. She has written and contributed to six books and has
penned sixty-four articles on civic education, foreign language education and
globalization.
Befekadu Degefe is currently a visiting scholar at The New School for Social Research.
He holds a PhD in economics from Humboldt University in Germany and a Master's in
economics from Vanderbilt University. He was a professor of economics at Addis Ababa
University where he taught for over twenty years while contributing to the university's
Institute of Development Research. Professor Degefe has held a position as a visiting
research fellow at the International Monetary Fund, and he has contributed extensive
policy research and papers to the IMF, the World Bank, and various UN bodies. As chair
of the Ethiopian Economic Association, he also founded the Ethiopian Economic Policy
Institute, an organization responsible for numerous reports on the Ethiopian economy.
Marisa Escribano received her PhD in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies
from Harvard University in 1987. She has volunteered with Scholars at Risk since 2005
and has been instrumental in coordinating fundraising activities, including creation of
Friends of Scholars at Risk. She is currently coordinating SAR's efforts on behalf of
missing and imprisoned scholars.
Closing Remarks
Mary Brabeck, Ph.D. joined The Steinhardt School of Education as dean in October
2003. The Steinhardt School houses approximately 6000 students and 240 full time
faculty in education, psychology, the health sciences, music, art and communication. A
leader in the field of applied psychology, Dr. Brabeck was the dean of Boston College’s
Lynch School of Education from 1996-2003 and a professor of counseling and
developmental psychology at Boston College from 1980-2003. Dr. Brabeck is chair and
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fellow of APA (Divisions 7, 17, 35 and 52). She has published more than 90 journal
articles and book chapters. Dean Brabeck’s research interests include intellectual and
ethical development, values and conceptions of the moral self, human rights education,
professional and feminist ethics, and inter-professional collaboration. Her most recent
edited books are Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology. (2000, Washington DC: APA)
and Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Professions in Collaboration for
Student Achievement and Well Being. 102nd Yearbook of the National Society for Study
in Education, Part II (2003, Chicago: University of Chicago Press). Dean Brabeck serves
as a member of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Educational Affairs,
Standing Hearing Panel of the Ethics Committee and Chair of the BEA Task Force on
Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning. She is a member of the
Carnegie Corporation’s Teachers for a New Era Research Coordinating Council, the
Board of Directors of the National Church Leadership Roundtable and a member of the
Board of Directors of the National Society for the Study of Education. Dean Brabeck
served as chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education 2004-05
and as a member of the Holmes Partnership Board of Directors. She has received
numerous awards including an Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of
Minnesota, a Leadership Award from the American Psychological Association
Committee on Women in Psychology and the Kuhmerker Award from the Association
for Moral Education. In 2007 she received a Doctor of Humane Letters (Hon.Causus)
degree from St. Joseph’s University, in Philadelphia.
A special thanks to our two sponsors:
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and
the Cultural Affairs Office of the French Embassy in New York.
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