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The Fourth Quaker Conference on Torture & Accountability
September 24-26, 2010 at the Quaker Center,
Ben Lomond CA:
http://www.quakercenter.org/Go to Registration Information HERE
Update August 26! We are pleased to announce a fourth special guest has been added to the conference program. Hector Aristizabal, creative director of ImaginAction, brings together art and action to heal and enhance communication. Hector has been a featured performer at several QUIT conferences...we are delighted he can be with us again.
Human rights attorney and investigator Scott Horton will be the keynote speaker. Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of SOA Watch, and Terry Kupers, consultant to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the issue of torture.
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Scott Horton is a human rights lawyer and author. His investigative journalism has brought new light to American Torture. Scott Horton has been one of the most tenacious investigators and reporters on issues of torture and accountability. Earlier this year, he broke the stunning story about three Guantanamo prisoners, whose deaths there were previously reported as suicides. Horton's investigations showed they more likely died during torture by US secret units. They were killed at a previously unknown "black site" outside the Guantanamo complex. Scott continues his reporting at a hard-hitting blog, "No Comment" published by Harper's Magazine.
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Roy Bourgeois, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former missionary to Bolivia, founded SOA Watch in 1990, and has been active in the effort to abolish the "School of Assassins" ever since. He has also been active in the struggle for women's ordination in the Catholic church. Learn more about Father Roy Bourgeois at SOA Watch.
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Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P. is Institute Professor at The Wright Institute, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and, in addition to practicing psychiatry at his office in Oakland, a consultant to various public mental health centers and jail mental health services. He provides expert testimony as well as consultation and staff training regarding the psychological effects of prison conditions including isolated confinement in super-maximum security units, the quality of correctional mental health care, and the effects of sexual abuse in correctional settings. Learn more about Dr. Kupers at http://www.wi.edu/faculty_kupers.html.
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Hector is a native from Medellin Colombia and currently lives in Pasadena CA. Hector’s commitment to the human rights work forced him to leave his country in 1989 due to death threats. Hector holds an MA degree in Psychology from the Antioquia University in Medellin, Colombia and a degree as a Marriage Family Therapist from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena. During the last 15 years Hector’s main work and interest has been on the use of Theater of The Oppressed techniques, traditional myths and story telling as a way to combine theater, drumming, and dance with psychotherapy in the creation of "modern rituals" as a way to address the healing needs of many of our communities. In his recent book Blessing Next to the Wound Hector talks of his transformation from torture victim to healer. Learn more about Hector at http://imaginaction.org/ or on YouTube at |
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