Perpetual Peace Project Kickoff Lecture

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2011-02-10
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Haverford College. Center for Peace and Global Citizenship
Haverford College. John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center
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The Perpetual Peace Project, inspired and named after Immanuel Kant’s treatise, is predicated on the belief that no one institution or individual can clearly claim or guarantee a mastery of the concept of peace. Today, as in Kant's time, the concept of peace remains abstract and continues to be defined negatively as an absence of war. For this reason, the project takes on initiatives within multiple institutions, to create the conditions for proposing yet again the idea of peace. The project is not attempting to formulate public policy actively; rather to conceptualize a peace movement, raising questions about how such a movement might occur. This project can be understood through Kant's notion of 'publicity;' its many forums enable us to move conversations in different directions with multiple perspectives. Eventually, this conversation must include everyone, since no one can claim to have absolute knowledge concerning the idea of peace.
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Opening Lecture for the Perpetual Peace Project, a collaboration between the Slought Foundation, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and the Hurford Humanities Center. This kickoff lecture was held at Haverford College, Sharpless Auditorium on February 10, 2011 with project organizers: Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought Foundation Martin Rauchbauer, Deputy Director, Austrian Cultural Forum Gregg Lambert, Founding Director, Syracuse University Humanities Center
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