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1/31/05

WOMEN'S PEACE INITIATIVE TOPIC OF SLU TALK

CANTON – The Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the department of 
religion at the Chautauqua Institution, will give a talk at St. Lawrence 
University on Wednesday, February 9, at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden, on the 
Global Women's Peace Initiative, which she chairs. The event is open to 
the public, free of charge.
	Campbell is an ordained minister with standing in two Christian 
denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American 
Baptist Church. In many ways, Campbell is a "first woman." In virtually 
every job she has held, she was the first woman to carry that responsibility. 
Campbell was the first woman to be associate executive director of the 
Greater Cleveland Council of Churches; the first woman to be executive 
director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches; the first 
ordained woman to be general secretary of the National Council of the 
Churches of Christ in the USA; and today, she is the first woman director 
of religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution, a center for religion, 
the arts, education and recreation. 
	The 2002 Global Peace Initiative gathering brought 500 women together 
to "forge a partnership to reduce conflict, violence and religious hatred." 
Campbell has stated, "The purpose of the initiative is to form a global 
network of women working together to support the peaceful resolution of 
conflicts, and to aid in the economic and spiritual rebuilding of 
post-conflict nations, working in partnership with the United Nations 
Development Fund for Women, as well as other U.N. and government 
agencies."

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