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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 5XÉçÇø 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 Kent State’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State’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 Kent State 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 State University.

James Smith, keynote speaker of the peace conference in Rwanda

 

 

 

POSTED: Wednesday, July 12, 2023 11:59 AM
Updated: Thursday, July 13, 2023 01:43 PM
WRITTEN BY:
Phil B. Soencksen