Upcoming Events

Healing Conversations: Toward Bridging Social and Political Divisions 

J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

March 29-30, 2023

This event features workshops for invited attendees on March 29, followed by a conference on March 30 open to the public. 

The conference (in CB 511, Thursday, March 30) will bring together nationally and internationally renowned leaders in the fields of mediation and peacebuilding to address one of the most pressing questions of our time: How do we heal the significant and threatening divisions within the United States through dialogue and compassionate conversation?

This event is part of the J. Bonner Ritchie Peace Conference series and is co-sponsored in partnership with UVU's Center for the Study of Ethics and UVU's Center for Constitutional Studies & Civic Thought & Leadership Initiative. 

For more information and a full conference schedule, please visit this website: https://www.uvu.edu/ethics/events/2022-23/2023_healing_conversations.html

 

 

Past Events

Healing Conversations 2022

J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

March 30-31, 2022

This event featured workshops and a conference around the pressing question: How do we heal the significant and threatening divisions within the United States through dialogue and compassionate conversation?

For more, visit this link: https://www.uvu.edu/ethics/appomattox/2022_healing_conversations.html

 

Film Viewing and Filmmaker Q&A 

Admissions: A Film For Peace

Q&A with Filmmaker John Viscount

Monday, November 4, 2019, 10-10:50 a.m.

Reflection Center SL 112

Poster advertising Admissions film viewing event in 2019

 

Combatants for Peace

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

11 a.m.-12 p.m., SB 134 AND 1-2 p.m. LA 212

Poster advertising Combatants for Peace event held in 2019

Fifteenth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

 
The J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice is an annual conference that brings local, national, and international speakers to campus to speak about cutting-edge thinking, policy, and action regarding important global problems. Each year’s conference focuses on a specific theme, including past themes of Women, War, and Peacebuilding; Peace and Democracy; Sustainable Development; and Religious Pluralism and Democracy. 

Past J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogues on Peace and Justice

The J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice, held annually since 2006, is a discussion about cutting-edge thinking, policy, and action regarding important global problems. Each year a new issue is engaged. We focus not only on the problem but also on the most promising advances to diminish or eliminate specific issues around the world.

 

2006

First Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice

George McGovern

 

2007

Second Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Bobby Muller

 

2008

Third Annual Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Nuclear Weapons: Dangers and Solutions

March 5-7, 2008

 

2009

Fourth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Genocide: Histories, Evils, and Prevention

March 24-25, 2009

 

2010

Fifth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict - Toward Peace

February 17-18, 2010

 

2011

Sixth J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Borders: Global and Local, Problems and Possibilities

March 29-31, 2011

 

2012

Seventh J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

How to Have Hope: Remedies for Calamities across the Global Landscape

March 8 and 20-22, 2012

 

2013

Eighth J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Climate Change and Violence: How Heating the Planet Creates Conflict and Death

March 21-22, 2013

 

2014

Ninth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Sustainable Development: Building Peace, Prosperity, and Human Security in the 21st Century

February 25-26, 2014

 

2015

Tenth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Peace and Democracy: Partners in Economics and Justice

 

2016

Eleventh Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Women, War, and Peacebuilding

March 23-24, 2016

 

2017

Twelfth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Globalism and Your Future: The Crisis of Neoliberalism

March 7-9, 2017

 

2018

Thirteenth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice: Religious Pluralism and Democracy Symposium

 

March 29-March 30, 2018

 

2019

Fourteenth Annual J. Bonner Ritchie Dialogue on Peace and Justice

Intersections of Racism and Sexism: Resurgence and Resistance

 March 13-14, 2019