THE ART OF PEACE IN A TIME OF WAR

Discussions of war and peace are fraught with ambiguities, paradoxes, and outright contradictions.

Peace is often understood as a passive state, a set of higher, abstract ideals, a future moral condition.

What role does empathy play in the construction of stable peace? How important is it?

This panel will examine the current threats to cyberspace as an open commons,

This panel will look at the markers of peace, and in particular what counts as the limit between peace, security, and

If wars are waged from the capitals of world power, perhaps peace can be imagined from the borderlands;

From Goya’s “The Disasters of War” (1810-1820) to Otto Dix’s series of fifty etchings “The War” (1924),

War is Us. We bring with us, even to Montebello, William James’ pair of paradoxes.

THE ART OF PEACE IN A TIME OF WARMontebello, Quebec, Canada