CPACS Flier and full Program

Centre for Peace
and Conflict Studies
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies invites you to
The 25+ CPACS Anniversary
Forum and Dinner
on Wednesday 25th February 2015
CPACS, launched on 16 May 1988, is celebrating 25+ Years with a:
Looking Back & Looking Forward: Peace with Justice Forum
Followed by CPACS Celebratory Dinner.
The Forum
Looking Back: 1.45 to 3.15pm
Looking Forward: 3.45-5.15pm
Venue: John Woolley Common Room,
John Woolley Building, University of
Sydney.
No entry fee.
Refreshments will be served
RSVP (for Forum and/or Dinner) by 18th February:
[email protected] or call 02 9351 7686.
For more information contact:
Peter King at [email protected] or call: 0422 647 025.
Reception and
Celebratory Dinner
Hosted by Yola Lucire and Bruce Childs, with
celebrity guest speaker, Meredith Burgmann*
When: 6.30 for 7pm Start
Venue: 345 Edgecliff Rd, Edgecliff
(Street parking only)
$20 entry fee at the door.
*Meredith Burgmann: BA, Usyd, 1969; MA Usyd, 1973 (Foreign Policy); PhD, Macquarie, 1981 (Industrial Relations), is a
former President of the Legislative Council of NSW and former
Councillor of the City of Sydney (2008-12). She is currently
President of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and heartbeat of the Ernies Awards. She also
has or had, a very large ASIO file for activism beyond the call
of civic duty as envisaged at Newscorp, and is the co-patron of
the West Papua Project at CPACS.
The Forum Program
Note: Speakers have been informally commissioned to observe various suggested time limits for
their presentations so that chairpersons can ensure an open discussion period of 30 minutes at
each session.
1.45-3.15pm Looking Back (Down Memory Lane, with Lessons}
Acknowledgement of Country
Welcome to CPACS Anniversary: Jake Lynch, Director CPACS.
Chair Introduction: Peter King, Inaugural President, CPACS Council.
Panel: Stuart Rees, former Director, CPACS.
Keith Suter, former President, CPACS; ICJ; Global Directions, etc.
Mary Lane, founder, SSCIPS*.
Roger Wescombe, former Director, International House; CPACS Council.
Open discussion.
3.45-5.15pm Looking Forward (Alternative Futures for CPACS)
Chair: Ken Macnab, President CPACS.
Panel: Jake Lynch, Director CPACS.
Meredith Burgmann
Wendy Lambourne, Deputy Director CPACS
Patricia Garcia, CPACS Council Member.
Paul Duffill, Visiting Scholar University of Sydney, CPACS Council Member.
Open discussion.
*Staff Student Committee for the Introduction of Peace Studies