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Acts of Peace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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