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Youths of PeaceJam Conference hear address by Nobel laureate
Originally appeared in the May 19, 2005 edition of the
Commercial Appeal
By Antoinette B. Cheney, Special to Whitehaven Appeal
BRIDGES, in partnership with Rhodes College, recently welcomed
260 high school youths from the Mid-South for the fourth
annual BRIDGES-PeaceJam Conference. This year's visiting Nobel
laureate was Mairead Corrigan Maguire.
BRIDGES-PeaceJam is a yearlong international education program
built around 12 leading Nobel laureates who work personally
with youths to pass on the spirit, skills and wisdom they
embody. Along with studying the PeaceJam curriculum, the
participants develop and implement a service-action project in
their school or community.
During the PeaceJam Conference, the participants had an
opportunity to spend the entire weekend with Maguire sharing
workshops, lectures and service projects with this peacemaker.
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