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invites you to a
guest lecture featuring
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"The Challenges
to Women,
Children and Human Rights Today"
Saturday, May 21, 2005
The Westin South Coast Plaza Hotel
686 Anton Boulevard • Costa Mesa
6:00pm
Please reserve tickets early, seating is limited |
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UC Irvine is very honored to host Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi to receive UCI's Third Citizen Peacebuilding
Award. This award recognizes
her tremendous effort to promote peace and democracy, and especially her advocacy
of human rights concerning the struggle of women and children. In particular
she has frequently defended journalists and others advocating democracy and human
rights in Iran.
It has never been more important for Americans to understand the
current struggles for human rights and democracy in the Middle East and,
in particular, Iran. Shirin Ebadi personifies the ongoing efforts of so
many women in the region that argue for non-violent solutions to the
problems troubling their societies.
Ebadi will visit the UC Irvine campus on Friday, May 20th for a tree dedication
ceremony in commemoration of the anniversary of the XIVth Dalai Lama's
visit to campus last spring. The California Coastal Redwood tree seedlings
were blessed by His Holiness and gifted to the University during his visit
and are a symbol of citizens' role in planting the seeds of peace throughout
the community and the world. http://www.dalailamafoundation.org/members/en/youthPeaceGrows.jsp
As a result of her extraordinary
achievements, Ebadi was the recipient of the 2001 Rafto Human Rights
Foundation prize for human rights activities, and in 2003 The Norwegian
Nobel Committee awarded her the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel
Committee said, "As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer and
activist, she has spoken out clearly and strongly in her country, Iran, and
far beyond its borders. She has stood up as a sound professional, a courageous
person, and has never heeded the threats to her own safety. Her principal arena
is the struggle for basic human rights, and no society deserves to be labeled
civilized unless the rights of women and children are respected. In an era
of violence, she has consistently supported non-violence. It is fundamental
to her view that the supreme political power in a community must be built on
democratic elections. She favors enlightenment and dialogue as the best path
to changing attitudes and resolving conflict."
The Nobel Committee continued, "We
hope that the people of Iran will feel joyous that for the first time in history
one of their citizens has been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and we hope the Prize will be an inspiration
for all those who struggle for human rights and democracy in her country, in
the Moslem world, and in all countries where the fight for human rights needs
inspiration and support."
Ms. Ebadi has continued her "citizen advocacy" of
democracy and human rights during the most recent difficult years, and for
those efforts
the UCI Citizen Peacebuilding Program joins the Nobel Committee and others
around the world in lauding her continuing valor.
Ms. Ebadi is a guest of the Citizen
Peacebuilding Program in the School
of Social Sciences at UC Irvine. Since its inception, it has been the mission
of the Citizen Peacebuilding Program (CPBP) to help citizens seek realistic
ways to improve human conditions locally and globally. CPBP activities aim
to prevent violent conflict and, if violence occurs, to promote reconciliation
and sustainable peace. The CPBP engages in research, education, and action
supporting citizen participation in public peace processes. The integration
of all three is especially important to the Citizen Peacebuilding Program in
promoting knowledge about positive models for change and fostering constructive
public debate.
The Citizen Peacebuilding Program is one example of UCI's response
to the growing problems of conflict and violence. Turning research into action,
the UCI program takes an integrated approach to studying the best grassroots
peacebuilding methods in both domestic and international conflicts, and utilizes
those findings in direct engagement in peacebuilding projects in neighborhoods
in Orange County and Los Angeles, California as well as in selected communities
in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Bosnia/Herzegovina, and the former Soviet
Union.
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