Nearly two decades after the end of the Cold War - but at a time when the legacy of nuclear weaponry is still very much alive — religious leaders, policy makers, business persons, and scholars will gather at a Yale Divinity School conference in September to take up the topic “Are We Safe Yet? Vulnerability and Security in an Anxious Age.” Conference presentations and panels will be available via live webcast.
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Join Faithful Security in New Haven for the conference or mark your calendar to watch the live webcast. Sergio Duarte, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, will offer the opening keynote, and Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, Policy Director for Faithful Security, will present the response to Ambassador Duarte’s speech.
Other speakers will include keynoter Douglas Roche, chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative; Naila Bolus, Executive Director of the Ploughshares Fund; Jonathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute and Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation; Jonathan Schell, senior fellow at The Nation Institute and author of The Seventh Decade (Metropolitan, 2007), as well as the seminal The Fate of the Earth (Knopf, 1982); and Emilie Townes, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School and president of the American Academy of Religion.
The Conference is open to the public and you are invited to attend. More information is available at the Conference web site at:
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Religious values played a critical role in framing the nuclear weapons debate in the 1980s, and organizers of the Sept. 18-19 Sarah Smith Memorial Conference at Yale believe it is now time for the religious community to take up the subject with renewed vigor-especially because the incoming Administration will conduct a congressionally mandated nuclear posture review in 2009, which will determine the direction of U.S. nuclear weapons policy for the next 5 to 10 years.
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“As traditionally pursued, security has come with an extremely high price in both monetary and human terms. The 2008 Sarah Smith Conference will explore whether there are ways to envision vulnerability positively, rather than viewing it exclusively as a liability, and whether we can describe means to understand and enact security outside of the typical turn to power dynamics,” said Yale Divinity School theologian Miroslav Volf, one of the primary conference organizers and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
