Peace Works 2008 will include panels, workshops, and special events with this extensive list of presenters and facilitators:
Presenters and Facilitators (download the bios here)
- Phyllis Bennis: Author and Fellow of both the Institute of Policy Studies, Washington DC, and the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam – Keynote
- Dr. Steve Niva: Professor of Middle East Studies – Panelist and Moderator
- Haj Sami Sadiq Subaih: Mayor of the West Bank Palestinian village of al Aqabah, targeted for demolition by the IDF – Panelist
- Dahlia Wasfi: Iraqi-American activist whose childhood was spent in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq– Panelist
- Zoriah Miller: Award- winning photo-journalist in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Rawhieh el Subaih: Kindergarten Teacher and head of the Rural Women’s Association in al Aqabah – Panelist
- Dr. Rula Awwad-Rafferty: Palestinian-American Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Communities – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Bill Dienst, M.D.: Emergency physician and Free Gaza boat passenger – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Elik Elhanan: Israeli member of Combatants for Peace and the Bereaved Families’Forum – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Dr. Simona Sharoni: Israeli-American scholar, researcher, and professor of women’s studies – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Dr. Susan Greene: Psychologist & Artist/Activist with Break the Silence Mural Project – Workshop Presenter and Olympia-Rafah Mural Project Host
- Dr. Therese Saliba: Professor of Third World Feminist and Middle East Studies – Peace Works Program Coordinator, Moderator, and Facilitator
- Dr. Lori Blewett: Professor of Inter-cultural Communication, Anti-Racism, Social Movements, Conflict Studies, and Community Development – Facilitator
- David Hyde: Professor of Sociology at South Puget Sound Community College,, activist and advisor to BRICK – Moderator
- Dr. Savvina Chowdhury: Professor of Feminist Economics and Political Economy – Moderator
- Dr. Zoltan Grossman: – Professor of global ethnic and U.S. racial relations, Native American & World Indigenous Peoples Studies, Military interventions and bases – Moderator and Workshop Presenter
- Jen Marlowe: Filmmaker, author, and peace and justice advocate in conflict regions of the world including Sudan and Israel/Palestine – Workshop Presenter and Facilitator
- Tracy Manzell: – High school history teacher, member of G.I. Voice project, and Family Readiness Group Leader when husband Seth deployed to Iraq – Workshop presenter
- Seth Manzell: Deployed to Iraq in Operation Iraqi Freedom III, Iraq Veterans against the War and Co-Director of G.I. Voice – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Josh Simpson: Iraq Veterans Against the War and formerly a U.S. counterintelligence agent for six years who left the army reserve after being ordered back to Iraq for a second time – Panelist and Workshop Presenter
- Warren Guykema: – Chaired the Episcopal Diocese’s Committee on Israel/Palestine for the Olympia Diocese & served on the Steering Committee for Standing with the Living Stones Conference – Workshop Presenter
- Susan Rosen: – Co-founder and long-term participant in the Jewish-Muslim Compassionate Listening Group – Workshop Presenter
- Mustafa Mohamedali: – Multi-lingual native of Kenya and member of Masjid Al-Nur and Islamic Center of Olympia, active in interfaith dialogue – Workshop Presenter
- Mea Moore: International educator and Fulbright team member in Palestine/Israel doing peace education curriculum for U.S. students – Moderator and Workshop Presenter
- Dr. Muhammad Ayub: Bridge-builder, educator and organizer around issues of Islamophobia, immigration reform, and the stifling of public debate – Workshop Presenter
- Dr. Melissa Saul: – Faculty in social justice and peace education, U. of Idaho School of Education; recently awarded Fulbright-Hays group grant to culminate in film and curriculum about Israel/Palestine for US students – Workshop Presenter
- Cliff Moore: WSU faculty in Community Education since 1991 before which he worked in international education in Sudan, Togo, Spain, and Honduras – Moderator
