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PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT YOUTH VIOLENCE AT IU,
FEATURING THE DALAI LAMA, FORMER FBI CHIEF,
TO BE BROADCAST OVER WORLD WIDE WEB
EDITORS AND REPORTERS: As noted in the story below, attendance at this event is only for invited guests and for those who view through the World Wide Web via broadcast.com. A credentials request form is being sent out separately for members of the news media who wish to attend this event. For more information on credentials, contact DeAnna Hines, IU executive director of communications, 812-855-0850, or George Vlahakis, IU manager of media relations, 812-855-3911.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The latest in computing technology will enable a worldwide audience to attend a panel discussion on preventing youth violence at Indiana University on Tuesday, Aug 17.
The invitation-only event, being presented by the IU School of Education, will include as panelists His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet; William Sessions, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Chief Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, and Richard Kimberly, vice president of government relations for the Kimberly-Clark Corp.
The program, being held from 5 to 6:30 p.m. (Central Daylight Time) in the Indiana Memorial Union, will be presented live and in its entirety on the World Wide Web through broadcast.com. The program then will be archived for one month on the Web.
The panel discussion is the conclusive event in a conference on the role of peacebuilding and proactive approaches to violence prevention among young people. It is expected to attract educators from across the country. Participation by the Dalai Lama is in conjunction with his presence in Bloomington for the Kalachakra initiation, a 12-day religious celebration for world peace.
The Dalai Lama is a Nobel Peace laureate and an internationally-known spiritual leader and peace advocate. The exiled Tibetan temporal leader received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his unending struggle to liberate Tibet while opposing the use of violence.
Sessions, now a partner in a mediation and arbitration firm in San Antonio, Texas, has been very active for years in violence prevention. He served as FBI director from 1987 to 1993, under Presidents Reagan and Bush. Prior to his FBI appointment, Sessions held
numerous positions in the judicial arena, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Texas.
Barker has served as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana since 1994 and has 15 years of experience as a District Court Judge. She has been active in the legal profession and with a multitude of civic groups and organizations in the Indianapolis area for more than 25 years. She confronts the violence issue on a regular basis through her duties as a federal judge.
Kimberly has spent 40 years in leadership positions with Kimberly-Clark Corp., and currently is responsible for the company's federal lobbying efforts and governmental affairs. His interest in nonviolence includes service as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commissioner and Chairman of this group's Community Service Committee and Legislative Task Force.
The goal of the peace conference and panel discussion is to provide an opportunity for educators and advocates of proactive programs for youth violence prevention to meet and exchange ideas, said Jonathan Plucker, IU assistant professor of counseling and educational psychology. "The participation by the Dalai Lama and other panelists reflects the urgency of this issue that faces our society," he said, "and the assistance of broadcast.com will allow us to share this message with an audience that would be otherwise impossible to reach."
The IU School of Education has a strong national and international reputation and is ranked among the top graduate schools of education in the United States. It has seven programs in the top ten in the country, and they are administration/supervision, counseling/personnel services, curriculum/instruction, elementary teacher, higher education administration, secondary teacher, and social/philosophical foundations.
To view the Web broadcast of the event, go to the archived broadcast page for the event. For more information about the conference's other events, go to its web page.