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�鶹ӰԺ State Today shares an interview with R. Neil Cooper, Ph.D., director of the School of Peace and Conflict Studies, who recently joined “Sound of Ideas” host Jenny Hamel to discuss the School of Peace and Conflict Studies and how this program can change students’ experiences both on and off campus during such a politically contentious time.

A group of �鶹ӰԺ professors recently returned from a visit to the commemoration of the Gwangju Uprising at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, feeling inspired for the meaningful connections they made to the May 4, 1970, shootings at �鶹ӰԺ State.

Speaking out against government corruption and ethnic killings in his home country of Ethiopia made Medhin Dollebo, Ph.D., the target of constant threats and harassment. 

A year ago, Yeonmin Kim, Ph.D., ’13, a literature professor from Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, was concluding his time as a visiting professor at �鶹ӰԺ with one goal in mind: Create an exchange program between the two schools based on their historic campus tragedies.

�鶹ӰԺ’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies and School of Communication Studies has organized a panel discussion to talk about free speech and protest on campus to educate students about their rights and responsibilities.

One of the many take-aways from the Dialogue and Difference program "Understanding and Combating Islamophobia" was that overcoming Islamophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry may be as simple as remembering the lessons we should have been taught as children.