GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST
AGENDA | OCTOBER 20-25 History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations.
–James Baldwin
KEY QUESTIONS:
• What roles can history education play to support peacebuilding, positive intergroup and intragroup relations, and democratization? How can it support the processes of rehumanization and the reclamation of dignity?
• How do we help young citizens navigate the complex legacies of a violent past that have not been redressed? How do we prepare their teachers to do this work with confidence and compassion?
• How does facing the violent past support adolescents’ civic and moral development?
Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization. We work with educators and representatives of civil society organizations in over 110 countries and maintain partnerships around the world. Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. We provide content, a range of teaching strategies, and face to face and online support. We are creating generations of engaged, informed, and responsible decision makers who will uphold democracy and nurture civil society.
1 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA AGENDA Sunday, October 20 PARTICIPANT ARRIVALS Accommodation: Bonne Esperance Guest House Corner of Neethling and Van Riebeeck, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, 7600 Tel: +27 (0) 21 887 0225 Monday, October 21
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE
8:45 GATHER AT BONNE ESPERANCE BREAKFAST ROOM AND WALK TO STIAS The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study 10 Marais Street, Stellenbosch, 7600
9:00 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
TEA BREAK
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES Sequence of study Key principles regarding facing the violent past
LUNCH CASE STUDY: SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY
CASE STUDY SESSION 1: EXPLORING IDENTITY
STARTING WITH TODAY – YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN IDENTITY Nabeel Allie, Sizwe Malinga, and Dominique Dryding
CASE STUDY SESSION 2: MEMBERSHIP AND BELONGING TEA BREAK
CASE STUDY SESSION 3: HISTORY Race in South Africa’s history
CASE STUDY SESSION 4: UNDERSTANDING APARTHEID
19:00 GROUP DINNER AT DE WARENMARKT 20 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 2 Tuesday, October 22
7:00 - 8:45 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS
9:00 CONNECTIONS
CASE STUDY SESSION 5: HOW UNIQUE WAS APARTHEID? Professor Bill Nasson
TEA BREAK
CASE STUDY SESSION 6: OUR STORIES Themba Lonzi
LUNCH
CASE STUDY SESSION 7: KNOWLEDGE IN THE BLOOD Scholar-in-Residence Professor Jonathan Jansen
TEA BREAK
CASE STUDY SESSION 8: LEGACY, JUDGMENT AND MEMORY
REFLECTION
THE TRC AND THE PROMISE OF RECONCILIATION A conversation with Max du Preez Dinner will be served
I’ve always thought about legacies because we work with young people and because we’ve experienced a different country. I think it makes this generation so difficult – hey? [murmurs of agreement from group] In any transitional...period in a country I think this generation has it bad. We have it bad. Especially if you are teaching.”
“Not just teaching. History teaching!”
“Ja! History teaching.
3 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA Wednesday, October 23
7:00 - 8:30 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS
8:45 CONNECTIONS
CASE STUDY SESSION 9: MY STORY Zolani Mahola
BREAK
CASE STUDY SESSION 10: TEACHING APARTHEID Sue Grové, Janine Kaptein, Leah Nasson, and Milton Phangwa
LUNCH
WORKSHOPPING COUNTRY CASES
COUNTRY CASE: COLOMBIA Juan Camilo Aljuri Pimiento and Carolina Valencia
COUNTRY CASE: NORTHERN IRELAND Sean Pettis TEA BREAK
COUNTRY CASE: NORTHERN IRELAND CONTINUED Sean Pettis
EUROCLIO Steven Stegers
EVENING FREE TIME FOR DINNER IN STELLENBOSCH
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 4 Thursday, October 24
7:00AM - 8:15 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE MEET AT STIAS
8:30 CONNECTIONS
COUNTRY CASE: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Dea Marić
TEA BREAK COUNTRY CASE: SOUTH AFRICA Dylan Wray Rand oy Hellenberg
LUNCH COUNTRY CASE: LEBANON Nayla Khodr Hamadeh
REFLECTION TIME ON COUNTRYCOUNTRY CASES Atif Rizvi CELL Atif Rizvi BREAK
FORUM FOR DIALOGUE AND POLAND Olga Kaczmarek and Igor Czernecki
REFLECTION TIME ON CELL AND FORUM FOR DIALOGUE
JONATHAN JANSEN REFLECTIONS
HOW TO ENDENE RACISMRACISM Chester Missing (and Conrad Koch)
19:30 GROUP DINNER AT A A LOCAL LOCAL RESTAURANTRESTAURANT
History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. -”The Cure at Troy” Seamus Heaney
5 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA Friday, October 25
7:00AM - 8:15 BREAKFAST AT BONNE ESPERANCE HOTEL CHECK-OUT MEET AT STIAS
8:30 CONNECTIONS
OUTCOMES AND ASPIRATIONS
JONATHAN JANSEN REFLECTIONS
NEXT STEPS
LUNCH
REFLECTIONS AND GOODBYES
13:00 CLOSE Transportation to Cape Town International Airport and Cape Town Central Business District will be arranged
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | AGENDA 6 SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS
KAREN MURPHY Summit Organizer and Lead Facilitator
Karen L. Murphy, Ph.D., is the Director of International Strategy for Facing History and Ourselves. Murphy oversees Facing History’s work and the development of partnerships in countries outside the United States and Canada. She has a special interest in countries emerging from mass violence and/or in transition and divided societies with identity based conflicts. She has researched, written about, and worked on the ground in several countries, including Bosnia, Colombia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, France, the United States, and South Africa. Murphy has also published journal articles, presented papers, and lectured on the often- neglected role of education in transitional justice processes. She is on the board of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network and the editorial boards of Intercultural Education and Change: Handbook for History Learning and Human Rights Education. She is the co-author of the Children’s Report for the Kenya Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission and has chapters in the recently published Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding and International Perspectives on Peace Education. She is co- director of a multi-year research project studying youth and civic development in the US, Northern Ireland, and South Africa funded by the Spencer Foundation.
DYLAN WRAY Summit Co-organizer and Co-facilitator
Dylan Wray is co-founder and director of Shikaya, a South Africa based non- profit that supports teachers and school leaders to ensure young people leave school thinking critically, and acting as compassionate, engaged, democratic citizens. Since 2005, in partnership with Facing History and Ourselves, Shikaya has trained over 10,000 teachers and reached over 1 million young people. Dylan works globally as a facilitator, materials developer, and author.
JONATHAN JANSEN Holtzmann Family 2019 Global Summit Scholar-in-Residence
Jonathan Jansen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 2016/17 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and in 2018/9 will be a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is currently President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and President of the South
7 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS African Academy of Science.
He started his career as a Biology teacher in the Cape after receiving his science degree from the University of the Western Cape. He obtained a MS degree from & PARTICIPANTS Cornell University and a PhD from Stanford. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vermont, and Cleveland State University.
In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York, the Spendlove Award from the University of California for his contributions to tolerance, democracy, and human rights, and he also won the largest book award from the British Academy for the Social Sciences and Humanities for his book, Knowledge in the Blood (published by Stanford University Press).
His recent books include Leading for Change (Routledge, 2016), As by fire: the end of the South African university (Tafelberg, 2017), Interracial intimacies on campuses (Bookstorm, 2017) and Song for Sarah (Bookstorm, 2017). His 2018 books include Inequality in South African schools (with Nic Spaull, publisher Springer), the Politics of Curriculum (Wits University Press) and Now that I know, a book on South African families who were separated by the racial laws of the 1950s.
GUEST SPEAKERS
MAX DU PREEZ
Max du Preez is a South African journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He was an anti-apartheid journalist who worked to expose government repression. In 1988, he founded Vrye Weekblad, the first Afrikaans-language, anti-apartheid newspaper that offered alternative policy perspectives from mainstream media and was critical of the government. During the transition, Max covered the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission on television. His weekly show, Special Assignment, brought the TRC hearings into homes across South Africa. He has written nine highly acclaimed books on South African history and politics including his memoir, Pale Native – Memories of a Renegade Reporter, and Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, Of Tricksters, Tyrants and Turncoats. He has received several awards including the Nat Nakasa Award for Courageous Journalism and has been named the Yale Globalist International Journalist.
CONRAD KOCH
Conrad is South Africa’s top comedy ventriloquist, and possibly the only one, and is a double International Emmy nominated comedian. His most famous puppet, Chester Missing, has won numerous awards in his own right, including being the first recipient of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s Anti-Racism Award. Chester Missing has interviewed most of South Africa’s political elite and has held a number of regular radio and TV slots, and even wrote an award- winning book. Conrad’s live shows have received wide political acclaim, and are a regular feature at arts and comedy festivals, including at the prestigious Just
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS 8 For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. The truth is, with a master’s degree in social anthropology, talking to puppets was his only career option.
THEMBA LONZI
Themba Lonzi lives in Gugulethu, a township in Cape Town. He is a musician, actor, community organizer, activist, and a reconciliation practitioner. Themba was a teenager during the years of South African Apartheid, and was present at many protests and marches. He remembers his youth as an angry time where he was forced to grow up very fast and without many options that were not violent. His path towards reconciliation was paved through his work in the arts, where he found a means to channel his anger at first, and later his compassion. Themba has a long relationship with Facing History and Ourselves and has helped facilitate numerous Facing History programs in South Africa for teachers and students.
ZOLANI MAHOLA
Zolani Mahola is a South African storyteller, singer, actress, speaker, and agent for social change. She was born in Port Elizabeth in 1981, and studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Cape Town where she met the musicians with whom she would later form the band Freshlyground in 2002. Freshlyground went on to become a household name and one of South Africa’s most acclaimed and successful bands. They captured the heart of South Africa and also claimed global recognition – one highlight of which was a collaboration with pop superstar Shakira with whom they recorded the official song for the FIFA World Cup 2010, performing it at the opening and closing ceremonies for a global audience of over a billion people.
As an artist, her work explores themes of identity and belonging. Zolani believes that all living beings are connected, that our individual stories have value and that a part of her reason for being is to encourage others to move towards becoming the full expression of themselves. She is passionate about sharing her experience for the good of her global community and is expanding her portfolio to include inspirational talks, encouraging others to be curious about their life stories, for their own benefit and for that of their organizations, communities, and greater world.
Zolani lives in Cape Town with her husband and two sons and is currently working on new stories, music, and performances as part of her solo repertoire to be recorded, performed, and released this year.
BILL NASSON
Bill Nasson is one of South Africa’s leading historians. Bill was born in Cape Town where he survived schooling and the trauma of adolescence before being educated in Britain at the universities of Hull, York, and Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, the Australian National University,
9 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS the University of Illinois, and the University of Kent in Canterbury. He lectured in economic history and history at the University of Cape Town for many years before moving to Stellenbosch University where he retired as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. An award-winning author, his numerous book publications include the acclaimed The War for South Africa, Britannia’s Empire, History Matters, Springboks on the Somme, South Africa at War, 1939– 1945, and World War I and the People of South Africa.
NABEEL ALLIE Panelist, Young South African Identity
According to his parents, Nabeel Allie is someone who cleans the pots best. Now, Nabeel does clean the pots very well, but whether this is a tactic to boost his confidence in order to get him to clean more pots at home remains to be seen. An avid reader and writer, Nabeel has written both journalistically for publications like Business Day and Mail and Guardian, as well as academically for New Agenda. He has a ferocious love for history and education and is finishing his Post Graduate Diploma in Education with plans on being a high school history teacher – or, as all his friends tell him, Roy Hellenberg junior.
DOMINIQUE DRYDING Panelist, Young South African Identity
Dominique Dryding is the Afrobarometer Project Leader based at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan survey research project which measures citizens’ attitudes on governance and democracy, the economy, and state capacity, to mention a few. It currently conducts surveys in 36 countries in Africa. Dominique holds a Master of Science Degree in Leadership and Society, with a focus on Peace and Security in Africa from the African Leadership Centre at King’s College London. She also holds a Bachelor of Social Science and Honours in Justice and Transformation from the University of Cape Town. Prior to joining the Afrobarometer team at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, she worked as a research associate at the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research in Nairobi, Kenya. Her research interests include peacebuilding, conflict and security and leadership and governance. She is also passionate about meditation and the pursuit of inner peace in her own life and as a vehicle for attaining world peace.
SIZWE MALINGA Panelist, Young South African Identity
Sizwe Malinga is currently enrolled at the University of Cape Town, working towards a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics & Finance. He is a Make a Difference Leadership Foundation bursary recipient and has contributed to the book, A School Where I Belong. He continues to support the program in its aim to
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS 10 address exclusion and discrimination at schools across South Africa. In addition, he is a keynote speaker; having had the opportunity of sharing a stage with the Premier of Western Cape and the former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, in addressing the future leaders on Democracy in South Africa. He currently works as a Sub-Warden of Social Responsiveness at a UCT Residence and holds the position of Treasurer of the Sub-Warden Association (SWA). He also represents the SWA in the Health & Safety Committee of UCT, which links him directly to the Vice Chancellor and the UCT Executive. This role gives him a platform to address core quandaries on behalf of the students, while also giving him the power to advise the executive on ways to improve student life in the university. Moreover, he is a transformation advocate and budding business and social entrepreneur. Sizwe is tenacious in his belief that transformation must be implemented at all levels of society to create diverse, reflective, and efficient spaces in the economy.
SUE GROVÉ Facing History and Ourselves Educator
Sue Grové is the Head Of Curriculum at Herschel School for Girls. She was formerly the Head of History. In both these roles, Sue has introduced Facing History modules in the Grades 9,11, and 12 History curriculum and infused Facing History in the other Grades and across Learning Areas. Sue has been involved with Facing History since 2005.
JANINE KAPTEIN Facing History and Ourselves Educator
Janine Kaptein is a senior teacher at I.D. Mkhize Secondary School. Janine has been teaching at the school for over 16 years. In 2008, Janine was awarded a fellowship to work with Shikaya supporting Facing History teachers in South Africa. Janine attended the inaugural Facing History and Ourselves seminar in 2003 and has been teaching Facing History ever since.
LEAH NASSON Facing History and Ourselves Educator
Leah Nasson is the Head of History at Herschel School for Girls. She is also on the Board of the South African History Teacher Association. She will soon be taking up the position of Curriculum Developer for History at Curro Schools where she will use Facing History as a foundation for the curriculum she creates. Leah has been involved with Facing History since she began teaching.
11 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS MILTON PHANGWA Facing History and Ourselves Educator
Milton Phangwa was born in Worcester in the Western Cape province. He started teaching at Vusisizwe Secondary School in 1988, where he teaches grade 12 History. He joined Shikaya’s Facing the Past program in the early 2000’s and through it became involved with Facing History and Ourselves. The sessions Milton attended have enhanced his teaching approach.
PARTICIPANT BIOS
JUAN CAMILO ALJURI PIMIENTO
Juan Camilo Aljuri Pimiento has a B.A. and a M.A. in History. He has spent the last decade working for different government agencies in Colombia, leading nationwide strategies for the prevention of school violence, peace education, and fostering active citizenship and socio-emotional abilities in students. He is one of the founding members of the Memoria y Ciudadanía Foundation, a vegan and a passionate videogamer, who cares deeply about the relationship between education and children’s rights in Colombia.
KATE ANGIER
Kate Angier was born and educated in the United Kingdom but spent a gap year before university teaching in Botswana which awoke an interest in southern African History. She moved permanently to South Africa in 1996. Having been awarded a doctorate in South African history from London University, she taught History at a Cape Town high school for 15 years during which time she was introduced to Facing History and Ourselves methodology. She spent three years as the Senior Curriculum Planner for History in the Western Cape Education Department before taking up a position in 2015 as a History Educator at the University of Cape Town where she works with pre-service teachers. Over the last 20 years she has co-authored a range of history textbooks, has completed two tours of duty on the national examination panel, and is currently an external moderator for the Grade 12 History examination. In 2019 she was appointed to serve on the Ministerial Task Team for History which is in the process of rewriting the South African school History curriculum from Grade 4 to Grade 12. Her current research interests are in teaching and learning ‘difficult knowledge’ and facilitating pedagogies of discomfort in post-Apartheid classrooms.
AYLA BONFIGLIO
Ayla Bonfiglio is the Regional Coordinator of North Africa of the Mixed Migration Center at the Danish Refugee Council. For the last decade, she has worked on issues of forced migration and mobility, with a focus on refugee
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS 12 educational attainment. In 2016, she co-founded the Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL) in the Netherlands, where she also currently serves as Deputy Director, which works towards the reduction of divisive stereotypes in educational materials and examines the impact of educational content on conflict and crisis. She has advanced knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Her doctoral research (UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University) examines how refugees and migrants who are pursuing tertiary education in asylum countries shape their forced displacement patterns in relation to higher education. In this role, she has conducted several hundred in-depth interviews with refugees and migrants in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. Ayla has held visiting researcher positions at the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, the African Migration and Development Policy Centre in Nairobi, and Makerere University. In recognition of her work at CELL and her research, she was awarded the 2019 Lion’s Pride honor by Columbia University, as an alumna working to have a meaningful and positive impact on the world. Formerly, she was a Research Officer at the International Migration Institute, Oxford. She obtained an MSc in Forced Migration from the University of Oxford and her dissertation on refugee non-formal education programs was published by UNHCR. Ayla holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Columbia University where she won the Charles Beard Prize for her dissertation on refugee self-reliance. She has worked and carried out research in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda. She has contributed to projects for GTZ, Samuel Hall, IOM, and UNESCO.
IGOR CZERNECKI
Igor Czernecki is Chair of the Board of the Roman Czernecki Educational Foundation. He holds a PhD in Social Theory from Warsaw University and an MA in International History from Columbia University. His book on Religion and Democracy is coming out in 2020.
MARA GREGORY
Mara Gregory is the Program Manager, International at Facing History and Ourselves, where she has worked for the past 5 years. She has an M.A. in the history of medicine from the University of Warwick, where she studied public health and health education in 20th century Britain. She lives in East Boston.
NAYLA KHODR HAMADEH
Nayla Khodr Hamadeh is an educational activist. After a long career in teaching and curriculum development, she decided to focus her work on history education. In 2013, she co-founded the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) and is currently its president. She is involved in the planning and implementation of a variety of projects focusing on advancing a disciplinary approach in history
13 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS education in Lebanon. Her work focuses on the role of education in building sustainable peace. She has been leading the NGO well aware that this process carries with it the need to enhance how we build knowledge, provide curricular models that better inform the process of curriculum making, and build collaboration and networking among teachers to break barriers resulting from confessional segregations and the protraction of the conflict. Nayla has Master’s degree in Educational Foundations and Policy Studies from the American University in Beirut. In 2010, she was awarded the “Randa Khoury Innovation in teaching award” from the International College, Beirut. In the past ten years, she has participated in many global programs and conferences as presenter and workshop leader.
ROY HELLENBERG
Roy Hellenberg obtained his degree and Higher Diploma in Education at UCT, majoring in History and Psychology as well as studying English and Anthropology. He has spent over 25 years as an educator and school leader in both under- resourced and well-resourced schools in South Africa. An ongoing interest has been education in a post-conflict society and how it can be used to address the gross human rights violations of the past. He has attended and spoken at local, national, and international conferences on this topic. Since 2006, he has worked with Shikaya and Facing History and Ourselves in designing and running national teacher training programmes that focus on teaching methodologies that encourage the development of critical thinking and democratic debate with the purpose of growing young people who are compassionate, engaged, and active citizens. One aspect of this work has been running a whole school programme that addresses exclusion and discrimination at schools across South Africa entitled A School Where All Belong. He has also co-authored a book with Dylan Wray and Prof. Jonathan Jansen by the same name. He has also lectured 3rd and 4th year education students in Professional Ethics and Teachers as Reflective Practitioners. He currently holds the position of Executive Head at a private school in Johannesburg that comprises a pre-primary, primary and high school. He is the proud father of four children and the happy husband of one wife.
OLGA KACZMAREK
Olga Kaczmarek is Director of International Relations of the Forum for Dialogue. She holds a PhD in cultural studies and is a lecturer at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. She was a Fulbright fellow at Penn State University in 2012/2013. She previously collaborated with the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews on The Polish Righteous program and worked as a Forum for Dialogue educator.
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS 14 VALERIE LINSON
Valerie Linson is an experienced media and communications professional who creates award winning content for television, social and digital media. Valerie is passionate about organizations that focus on developing great ideas, cultivating thought leadership, and contribute to creating thriving and equitable societies. Valerie is also an experienced writer, storyteller, and editor with a critical eye and ear for current events, news, history, and pop culture. Before joining Facing History and Ourselves as the Director of Communications, Valerie was the executive producer of two television programs at WGBH Boston (public broadcasting’s flagship station); she was also an independent filmmaker on documentaries with national distribution on PBS including: This Far By Faith: The African American Religious Experience; On Our Own Terms: Bill Moyers on Dying in America; and Soldiers Without Swords: The Black Press.
DEA MARIĆ
Dea Marić is a lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she teaches courses related to History Teaching. She studied History and Sociology at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In addition, she was a stipendist of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. She took part in international research projects and published about history education. She also developed and participated in national and international projects in the field. In the course of her professional career, she has worked in various positions in schools, CSOs, and institutions responsible for implementation of European Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral programme in Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in European and World Context. Her main research interest is the social role of history education in the context of post-conflict societies. She is a president of the Croatian History Teachers Association and an active member of the European History Teachers Association (EUROCLIO).
SEAN PETTIS
Sean Pettis has worked for Corrymeela since 2010 and is the Manager of the ‘Legacies of Conflict’ program. Amongst other tasks, he coordinates the Facing History and Ourselves work across Northern Ireland and has been active in the field of peace and reconciliation for the past 15 years. In his spare time he is a committed, but highly amateur footballer (soccer) and musician. He is married to Sharon and lives in Belfast.
15 FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS SUSIE RICHARDSON
Susie Richardson is a member of the Facing History Board of Directors and has served on the San Francisco Bay Area Advisory Board since 2002. After the honor of participating in the Global Summit in Northern Ireland last summer, she was thrilled to welcome Professor Martha Minow to Palo Alto last December where she helped 150 people reflect on Democracy and the 2018 elections. Susie co- chaired three Facing Benefit dinners and was the San Francisco Advisory Board Chair for four years. She travels often to other offices, and she has participated in Facing History’s study trips to South Africa, Northern Ireland, Poland, and Alabama. Susie will be hosting former White Nationalist Derek Black at an event immediately before her departure to South Africa. Susie was on the Palo Alto Board of Education for eight years and serves as an advisor to several education non-profits.
ATIF RIZVI
Atif Rizvi is co-founder and Executive Director of Conflict and Education Learning Laboratory (CELL). He has worked for over two decades in strategic planning in tertiary education and institution building. He was educated at Harvard University and worked as a Senior Researcher in Education at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). At HIID, he was also the Assistant Editor of The Forum, a joint Harvard-USAID publication dedicated to advancing basic education and literacy. Atif was the Executive Director of the Global Matriculation Initiative (GMI) at the Worldpaper Inc., in Boston from 1995 - 1998. Following, he was a consultant for the UNESCO and World Bank Task Force on Higher Education and Society. Between 2002 - 2008, Atif was the Executive Secretary of the UNEP Sasakawa Endowment Fund and the Prize for the Environment. He has also held positions at UNICEF, UNESCO, and the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Atif has worked on achievement assessment, educational access and equity, and basic education delivery in a number of conflict-affected areas.
YAEL SIMAN
Yael Siman has a BA in International Relations (Iberoamericana University) and a PhD in Political Science (University of Chicago). She was a fulbright scholar from 1995-98. She teaches a course on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity at Iberoamericana University and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. She collaborates with Facing History and Ourselves in Latin America. She is the head of the A.G. Leventis Chair on Cyprus Studies at Anáhuac University. Born and raised in Mexico City, she is the third generation of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Russia. She has lived in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Chicago, and New Jersey, leading her to appreciate the value of cultural diversity, democracy, and peace. She created a civic organization Nenemi Paxia to contribute to cItizenship education in Mexico, a country that she loves and where she lives with her family.
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST | SPEAKERS & PARTICIPANTS 16 STEVEN STEGERS
Steven Stegers is the Executive Director of EUROCLIO, where he has worked since 2006. In his time at EUROCLIO, he has focused predominantly on projects in which educational resources are being developed as part of a collaborative process. He has worked for several years as coordinator of projects seeking to innovate history, citizenship, and cultural education in the Black Sea region, and North Africa and the Middle East. Steven led the development of Historiana – one of EUROCLIO’s flagship projects, and its first development of online educational resources. He is experienced in managing projects, public speaking, fundraising and advocacy, and has been involved as an expert for several intergovernmental organizations and the International Baccalaureate.
CAROLINA VALENCIA
Carolina Valencia is a historian and teacher focused on peace education. She has taught children of all ages in public and private schools around Colombia. Carolina currently works at the Teacher’s College of the Externado University in Bogotá. She teaches a seminar called “Peace Education” to master’s students and oversees several investigations whose basic aim is to understand and improve peace education in Colombia. She has also worked with the Colombian government, designing public policies concerning social sciences and peace education curricula. Carolina was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She has three children and five grandchildren.
LIZ VOGEL
Liz Vogel joined Facing History in 2001 as a Development Associate in the San Francisco Bay Area office, and currently serves as the Executive Director in Los Angeles. She leads the Los Angeles team as they support teachers and students in more than 1,300 middle and high schools across Southern California, including LAUSD, which is the second largest school district in the U.S. Liz’s vision is to create a Facing History pathway through middle and high school, giving every student in Los Angeles multiple touch-points to link their learning to their lives, and to deeply consider the role they can play in shaping our future. Liz graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Women’s Studies/History from Pomona College. She served as a volunteer with the San Francisco Court-Appointed Special Advocate program for over a decade, working on behalf of children in foster care. Liz hails from the Jersey Shore but claims fierce allegiance to her California lifestyle.
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FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES:GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FACING THE VIOLENT PAST