Conversations Co-Host, Stephanie Van Hook, Michael Nagler on KVMR: Lessons learned Ten years after 9/11

Summary: Join Conversations Host Michael Stone as he talks with Professor Michael Nagler, Metta Center Director Stephanie Van Hook and you the listener in this interactive discussion about what we can learn from 9/11 and our global actions of the past 10 years. Would a Non-Violent approach have worked, has the world become safer as a result of our actions, what is the best way forward from here? Join us in the dialogue of remembrance and vision… Is it possible to move towards a non-violent future? Stephanie N. Van Hook is a recently returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Benin. Her interests in nonviolence and forgiveness have intersected with activists and academics working for nonviolent social change in the global peace and justice community. She studied conflict resolution at Portland State University in Oregon and is currently co-director of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education. www.mettacenter.org Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, He is the author of several books, including America Without Violence, Upanishads, and Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future. Dr. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society and the advisory board of Tikkun magazine. He is the founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education in Berkeley, California. www.mettacenter.org