International Day of Peace: Main Speaker: Hal Pepinsky, J.D. (Harvard) Ph.D. (U Penn) Founder of Peacemaking Criminology September 21, 2009

Free event open to the public.

Hal Pepinsky, J.D. (Harvard), Ph.D. (U Penn) founder of Peacemaking Criminology and Emeritus Professor at Indiana University will give a public talk on Violence and Peace.

His research interests include crime control, society and crime, peace, and violence. Peacemaking Criminology is a school of criminology that argues that contemporary crime control efforts perpetuate social injustices and often increase, rather than reduce, crime, and which advocates sensible ways of criminalizing behavior, emphasizing alternative, peaceful responses to crime.

Trained in Chinese, law, and sociology, Dr. Pepinsky has spent most of his scholarly career describing crime and violence, their roots, their antitheses, and the ways in which people can and do make peace. He has done field research in the United States, Great Britain, Norway (as a Senior Fulbright Scholar), Poland, and Tanzania, as well as historical research in Chinese material. He has authored six books, has written more than eighty scholarly articles and book chapters, and has edited three volumes. Dr. Pepinsky has studied and taught in such diverse settings as Norway and Tanzania, and has more than a passing acquaintance with Swedish, Arabic, Russian, Norwegian, Danish, French, Chinese, and Swahili.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to me402@nova.edu.