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VIDEO: It's Your World
Chelsea Clinton Shares Stories of Empowerment & Activism
Chelsea Clinton presented the 2016 Peace Week lecture in the Meetinghouse on February 4, 2016. She shared stories of empowerment and activism featured in her book, "It's Your World — Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going." She also spoke about her education at Sidwell Friends and fielded questions from an audience of Friends Seminary students, educators and parents.
Peace Week 2016: Let Your Life Speak focused, broadly, on stories, lives lived, decisions made, and actions taken that have brought about change or peace. In its 12th year, Peace Week at Friends Seminary is an annual exploration and celebration of the Quaker testimony of Peace.
Past Peace Week Themes and Guest Speakers:
Peace Week 2015
Power and Persuasion: Art as Social Commentary
Nicholas Kristof and Maro Chermayeff
Peace Week 2014
Legacies of Peace: Choosing to Use the Gift of Our Lives to Make the World a Better Place
Maggie Doyne, Neil Blumenthal and Oliver Rothschild
Peace Week 2013
Building Bridges: Peace through Understanding
Teri McLuhan and Patricia McCormick
Peace Week 2012
Peace Like a River: Water as Metaphor and Matter
Michael Arad
Peace Week 2011
Quaker Education: Past, Present and Future
Steve Emerson, Bruce Stewart and Irene McHenry
Peace Week 2010
Beyond the Numbers: The Economics of Peace
Jeffrey Sachs
Peace Week 2009
In the Presence of Justice: The Politics of Peace
Mary Robinson and Linda Biehl
Peace Week 2008
War Letters: Both Said and Sung
Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Elizabeth Palmedo and Crystal Sikora
Peace Week 2007
Environmental Stewardship: A Pathway to Peace
James Turrell
Peace Week 2006
Nonviolence in the Age of Terrorism
Arun Gandhi
Peace Week 2005
The Diplomat, the Activist and the Academic
Pierre Schori, Susan Sarandon and Jessica Tuchman Mathews
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