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
Co-Sponsored by: CSB/SJU Peace Studies Department and CSB/SJU Amnesty International Club
Free and open to the public 

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.

 "The Death Penalty Leaves No Survivors"

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

"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

Movie - "At the Death House Door"

  Discussants: Randy Steidl and Art Laffin
  "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.
[email protected]; 320-363-3047