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IN A FLASH SPECIAL: A Message of Peace in Crisis

All this week, "In A Flash" will feature images from the ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ group's trip to Rwanda. 

Dr. James Smith is the founder of the , a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending genocide and other atrocities in the world. He gave the keynote address on July 11, the first day of the three-day global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda.

The conference, titled , is being sponsored by ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµâ€™s Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, the  and the . 

Conference attendees include delegates from 14 nations and nine U.S. states, including a large group of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ educators and students along with administrators from the Stow-Munroe Falls School District in Northeast Ohio and delegates from the Fairfield (Ohio) City School District and Ohio ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ University.

James Smith, keynote speaker of the peace conference in Rwanda

 

 

 

POSTED: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 11:59 AM
Updated: Monday, March 2, 2026 12:10 PM
WRITTEN BY:
Phil B. Soencksen