ACC symposium examines impact of world conflict on children

Spring2015Symp_RighttoPeace-poster copyAustin Community College will host a symposium to raise awareness of global and regional struggles children face at the fourth annual Peace and Conflict Studies Spring Symposium  “The Right to Peace: Growing Up with Conflict” on Friday, May 1, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Eastview Campus, Multipurpose Room 8500 (3401 Webberville Rd.).

The event is free and open to the public.

“Children are not in a position to affect their environment. Many of our own students have faced major conflict in their lives,” says Dr. Shirin Khosropour, ACC professor of psychology and director of the college’s Peace & Conflict Studies Center. “Collectively, we as adults are responsible for creating safe environments where they can thrive.”

The symposium will include two panel discussions exploring the conflicts homeless, immigrant, and refugee children face as well as conflict children face in school.

Co-sponsored by the college’s Mexican American/Chicano Studies and the University of Texas at Austin’s Latin American Studies, the event will feature expert panelists including Sheerin Abbas-Hall of Austin Children’s Services, Dalell D. Mohmed of KinderUSA, and Barri Rosenbluth of SafePlace.

Participants also will discuss the effect of immigration and absent parents on children and families in a screening and discussion of the film “Al Otro Lado” (To the Other Side).

Learn more and register online at go.austincc.edu/peace. For more information contact Khosropour at 512-223-3282 or [email protected].

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