International Group in Preventive Diplomacy Program Will Visit U of M Nov. 8
For release: Nov. 5, 2002
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

An international delegation will visit The University of Memphis' Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change on Friday, Nov. 8, as part of the Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution Program. Hooks will speak to the group at 11 a.m. in Clement Hall, Room 409. A question-and-answer session will follow.

Among the countries represented will be Kenya, Uganda, Azerbaijan, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Russia, Indonesia, Burma and Zimbabwe. The delegation includes leaders in education, politics, peace studies and the media.

The goal of the program is to develop an understanding of the United States' approaches to the use of preventive diplomacy and conflict resolution on national and local levels. During their four-day stay in Memphis, the delegates also will visit the National Civil Rights Museum, the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and MIFA.

Hooks, a former executive director of the NAACP, was the first African-American appointed to a judgeship in Tennessee and first black member of the Federal Communications Commission. He has long been a voice for the principles of political and civil rights.

For more information, call Elisabeth Silverman with the Memphis Council of International Visitors at 901-272-7905.

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