Information for Students

Involvement
Your involvement in the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Forum is crucial to its success. Here are some of the ways Concordia students are already engaged:

• Students drafted a proclamation declaring this to be the Year of Peace on Concordia’s campus.
• The Concordian is hosting a weekly column in honor of the Year of Peace. Members of the Concordia community are invited to share their views about peace.
• The French Club has been providing aid to Francophone nations, such as the Central African Republic, Haiti and Cameroon that are dealing with poverty. By providing translating services for education purposes and collecting blankets, hygiene products and school supplies, they are helping to promote peace. They are also sending translated children’s books to Haiti in collaboration with the education department and plan to collect items for an orphanage in Cameroon.
• The organization Students for Social Justice believes that peace can be made through justice. This year, the organization continues its work selling fair trade coffee, tea and chocolate, but is also expanding to clothing through a fair trade clothing campaign. The students also focused on the issues of hunger and homelessness by helping to host a week of awareness.

Getting Involved
Is your club doing something special in honor of the Year of Peace? Would you like to be involved with planning the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Forum? Are you able to host students from Luther, St. Olaf, Augustana and Augsburg who attend the forum?

Contact:
Breanna Dahl ’08
Peace Prize Forum Student Committee Chair

Preparing for the Forum

• Reserve the dates March 7-8.
• Learn about the work of Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
• Become a micro-lender at kiva.org.
• Share your views of peace with The Concordian opinions section.
• Encourage your organizations to host an event in conjunction with the Year of Peace.