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*Special display of Palestinian and Israeli teenagers' art from Artsbridge Camp

BOSTON, Sept. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- America must take a major role in finding peaceful and equitable solutions to violence in the world, says Ira Magaziner, chair of the William J. Clinton Foundation policy board and former Senior White House Advisor for Policy Development in the Clinton administration, who will be the keynote speaker at a conference at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP) on Septembe 19 and 20, 2008.

Joining him as major presenters at the conference -- "Healing Communities: Using Peace Psychology to Transform Violence" -- will be world-renowned pioneers in the peace psychology movement, Dr. Paula Green, founder and director of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding (http://www.karunacenter.org) and of CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures), and Dr. Kaethe Weingarten, founder and director of the Witnessing Project (http://www.witnessingproject.org) and associate clinical professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Program in Family, Trauma, and Resilience at The Family Institute of Cambridge.

Among the topics to be addressed at the two day conference will be ethnic conflicts around the world; intervening in neighborhoods hurt by gang-related violence; achieving goals of peace in the world's most conflict ravaged areas and nurturing dialogues between groups in conflict.

*A special highlight of the two days will be the display of art produced by partnerships of Israeli and Palestinian teenagers at Artsbridge, a program that uses art and guided reflective diaglogue to bridge the gap between cultures and individuals (http://www.artsbridgecamp.org).

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