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"Peace Crimes: The Minnesota 8 vs. the war"
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Peace and War in America
A timely campus-based, public “Big Conversation”
Regardless of political affiliations or service history, all Americans are being challenged to make informed and critical moral and political decisions about war-making and peace-making policies and obligations. Peace and War in America (PWA) produces a “Big Conversation” series of public events that promotes personal engagement with the complex intellectual issues and moral terrain of war and peace-making. PWA is an extraordinarily timely campus-based peace-and-war education project that articulates key, critical moral and constitutional issues facing America’s youth. PWA focuses on involving and enabling this generation's youths' participation in the public discussion. PWA creates a public conversation that engages campus students, faculty and staff, at high schools and colleges, in a discussion of current peace and war issues and controversies within an historical framework. It is a conversation that engages and brings to the campus conversation: citizens, governmental and non-governmental agents, academics, industry representatives, faith communities and other concerned participants. To create and promote an intergenerational dialogue and discussion, PWA creatively links its events to a newly premiered theatrical docu-drama that links past events with current affairs, namely, “Peace Crimes: the Minnesota 8 vs. the war.” "Peace Crimes" was jointly produced and premiered by the History Theatre and the University of Minnesota. PWA tells a complete and comprehensive story of how present moral, political and cultural conditions and challenges are rooted in the choices made by previous generations. During the winter of 2008, PWA test-marketed the “Big Conversation” in Minnesota on eight campuses (four public, four private). Download a copy of the play. Contact to discuss using PWA in your area and/or on your campus.
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