Peace Studies Department

September 2011

College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University

24th Annual Peace Studies Conference

"Toward a More Sociable World: The Struggle Against the Death Penalty and the Legitimation of Violence"

September 19, 2011
12:30pm - 9:00pm
Quad 264, Saint John's University
Co-Sponsored by: CSB/SJU Peace Studies Department and CSB/SJU Amnesty International Club
Free and open to the public

12:30-1:00pm (Quad 264)
Book Sale and Signing: Now I Walk on Death Row: A Wall Street Finance Lawyer Stumbles into the Arms of A Loving God, by Dale S. Recinella. Click here for video link of Dale Recinella's talk.

1:00-2:10pm (Quad 264)
"The Death Penalty Leaves No Survivors"

Presented by:
Dale S. Recinella, JD, MTS
Catholic Correctional Chaplain
Florida Death Row & Solitary Confinement

2:40-3:50pm (Quad 264)
"More than 'Mistakes Were Made': An Innocent Man's Journey from Death Row to Freedom"

Presented by:
Randy Steidl
Former Exonerated Death Row Prisoner video link to presentation

*Sponsored by CSB/SJU Amnesty International Club

4:00-6:00pm (Quad 264)
Movie - "At the Death House Door"

Discussants: Randy Steidl and Art Laffin

6:15pm Dinner Break

7:30-9:00pm (Quad 264)
"Breaking the Cycle of Violence Through Mercy, Justice and Reconciling Love"

click here for video link to Art Laffin's presentation

Presented by:
Art Laffin
Nonviolence Advocate, Washington, D.C.

Conference Coordinator:
Dr. Jeff Anderson
CSB/SJU Peace Studies Dept.
janderson@csbsju.edu; 320-363-3047

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The Peace Studies Department at Saint John's University and College of Saint Benedict is grateful to Lorraine and the late Robert Breitenbucher for their financial support in presenting this conference. Robert Breitenbucher passed away in October 2004 -- his spirit of peacemaking lives on.