Peter T. Coleman (Ph.D. ‘97), Professor of Psychology & Education and Director of TC’s Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) will kick off this annual event with his reflections on Deutsch's legacy and his vision for sustainable peace. This session features the 2020 Morton Deutsch Award for Social Justice recipient, Dr. Robert Gore, who is the founder and executive director of the KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative), a hospital and school-based youth violence intervention prevention and empowerment program in conversation with creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement, Dr. Christopher Emdin, Associate Professor of Science Education.
The Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice were created in 2005 by the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution to honor Deutsch’s lifelong efforts to create a more peaceful and egalitarian world. The awards recognize a distinguished scholar-practitioner in the field of social justice and, in past years, a student author of an exemplary paper on a social justice theme. Danielle Coon, Associate Director MD-ICCCR, will present the 2020 Social Justice in Practice Award to Dr. Rob Gore who is the founder and executive director of KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative), a youth-serving organization with a mission to prevent and eliminate interpersonal violence from the lives of young people through advocacy, peer leadership, community mobilization, and social justice.
Session resources/links: https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2020/april/-a-voice-for-our-times-peter-coleman-on-how-we-speak-to-one-another/