Note: Hospitality Suite Programming is Identified in Blue



WEDNESDAY 8/13

 Peace Psychology Past Presidents'  Breakfast Meeting

   8 – 10 a.m.            By Invitation only; Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Orleans Room

Executive Committee Meeting

  10– 3:50 a.m.         Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Orleans Room




THURSDAY 8/14

Symposium: Building Cultures of Peace

    8 – 9:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 160A

Chair: Joseph de Rivera, PhD, Clark University

Steve Nisenbaum, PhD, JD, Harvard University: Negotiation: Human Tool for a Stairway to Heaven?

Eduardo I. Diaz, PhD, Miami-Dade County Independent Review Panel, Miami, FL: Building More Peaceful Communities: The Facilitation of

Constructive Police Reforms

Sandra T. Azar, PhD, Penn State University Park: Achieving Peace in the Family

Discussant: Michael Wessells, PhD, Columbia University in the City of New York

Symposium: Stemming the Tide of Violence

    10 – 11:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 160B

Chair: Fathali M. Moghaddam, PhD, Georgetown University; Craig A. Anderson, PhD, Iowa State University: Direct and Indirect Effects of Electronic    
     Media on Youth Violence
William C. Holmes, MD, MS, University of Pennsylvania: Early Abuse: An Overlooked Factor in Later Violence
Michael B. Greene, PhD, Greene Consulting, Montclair, NJ: Violence Prevention Strategies and Health Disparities Among Youth of Color
Cliff Akiyama, MA, University of Pennsylvania: Youth Gangs: What We Know and How We Can Intervene
Eduardo I. Diaz, PhD, Miami-Dade County Independent Review Panel, Miami, FL: Miami-Dade County Contributions to Juvenile Justice Reforms

Symposium: Health Care—The Great Divide

    1 – 2:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 252B

Chair: Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, City University of New York Hunter College; Lydia P. Buki, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Take Pill Daily:  
     Institutional  Barriers to Health Care in Marginalized Populations
David A. Chiriboga, PhD, BA, University of South Florida: Disparities, Cultural Competence, and Medical Homes: Lessons From Hispanic Populations
Barbara W.K. Yee, PhD, University of Hawai`i at Manoa: Health Disparity Outcomes for Southeastern Asian Americans
Jeffrey King, PhD, Western Washington University: Barriers to Urban American Mental Health Care

INVITED ADDRESS: Ralph K. White Lifetime Achievement Award<>
           3 – 3:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 153B

Fathali M. Moghaddam, PhD, Georgetown University: Multicultural Imperative: Psychological Science and Solutions to Fractured Globalization


Recognizing Our Students and Early Career Psychologists

   4 – 4:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

A social gathering for Peace Division and student members; All are welcome.

Peace Division Working Group (WG)

   8 – 8:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

APA Division 48 Peace and Education Working Group and PsySR Peace Education Action Committee; Linden L. Nelson, PhD, co-chair.


FRIDAY 8/15

Discussion: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the UDHR Ethics and Interrogation

9 – 9:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 252A

Chair: Brad Olson, PhD, Northwestern University; Steven J. Reisner, PhD, Columbia University in the City of New York; Stephen Soldz, PhD, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

Prior to this session is Symposium: Marking the 60th Anniversary of the UHHR—Psychology and Interrogations, also Room 252A, Division 27, 8 – 8:50 a.m.

Student Poster Session

10 – 10:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Exhibit Halls A and B1

Caitlin E. Femec, MEd, James Madison University: Juvenile Justice and Practices That Undermine Rehabilitation: Implications for Psychologists
Carly B. Dierkhising, MA, Pepperdine University: Comparison Study of Delinquent Behavior Among Incarcerated Youth
Silvia Susnjic, MA, George Mason University: Fueling Ethnonational Animosities: The Role of Collective Remembering
Neda Faregh, MA, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada: Mental Health in War-affected, Displaced Populations: Externalizing Behaviors Among
      Adolescents
Laura M. Begley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania: Fundamentalist Demonstrations on the Liberal University Campus: Chaos or Catharsis
Matt S. Motyl, BS, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs: Validation of a Scale Measuring Perceptions of a Common Humanity
Gabriel H.J. Twose, BA, Clark University: South Africa: Remembering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Nadia H. El Tayar, Boston University: Ghana and the United States: Perspective on World Peace
Sarah J. Whitman, MA, Harvard University: Interfaith Peacebuilding: How Psychologists Can Foster Peace Through Interreligious Cooperation
Susan B. McGurr, Montclair State University: Peace Camp: Teaching Children Social Problem Solving Skills
Ryan W. Hunt, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University: Project Camelot: Intelligence, Interrogations, and Military Sponsorship of Psychology
Shannon Gottschall, BA, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada: An Examination of Anticipated Reactions to Segregation


Global Violence, Terrorism and nuclear War

    10 – 10:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

A discussion with Diane Perlman, PhD, Private Practice, Conscious Politics.org.

Divisions of Social Justice

             11 – 11:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite
A discussion with Judith Van Hoorn, PhD, University of the Pacific.


Town Hall Meeting: CSJ and NIMC Continue Discussion on Race, Justice and Peace

    Noon – 1:30 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

Facilitated by Counselors for Social Justice and the National Institute for Multicultural Competence; Co-hosted with PsySR.

Poster Session

1 – 1:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Exhibit Halls A and B1

Daniel M. Mayton II, PhD, LewisClark State College: Replicating and Extending the Profile of a Peaceful Person
DoYeong Kim, PhD, Ajou University, Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea: Malleability of Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward North Korea
Scott L. Moeschberger, PhD, Taylor University: Steps to Peace: Reconciliation Among Excombatants in Northern Ireland
Alice LoCicero, PhD, MBA, Endcott College: When the Last Tamil Dies: Interviewing Children in War Zones
Lori J. Olafson, PhD, University of Nevada/Las Vegas: Morality of War Resistance
Juliet D. RohdeBrown, PhD, Antioch University Santa Barbara: Supporting a Culture of Peace Through Interpersonal and Self Forgiveness
Daya S. Sandhu, EdD, University of Louisville: Conceptual and Practical Framework to Create a Culture of Peace

Symposium: Emotional Perspectives on Intergroup Conflict Around the Globe

2 – 2:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 260

Chair: Joseph de Rivera, PhD, Clark University
Joseph de Rivera, PhD: Emotional Climate and National Unity
Asako B. Stone, PhD, Washington State University: Effects of Social Identity on China-Japan Relations
Jutta M. Tobias, MS, Washington State University: Economic Cooperation and Its Link to Intergroup Reconciliation in Rwanda

Symposium: Asymmetric Conflict

3 – 3:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 206B

Chair: Philip G. Zimbardo, PhD, Stanford University
Clark McCauley, PhD, Bryn Mawr College: Asymmetric Conflict as Politics
Albert Pepitone, PhD, University of Pennsylvania: Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Conflict
Sophia Moskalenko, PhD, Bryn Mawr College: Mechanisms of Radicalization in Asymmetric Conflict
James Breckenridge, PhD, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology: Dynamics of State Response to Nonstate Violence
Anthony J. Marsella, PhD, University of Hawai`i at Manoa: Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Asymmetric Conflict


INVITED ADDRESS: Early Career Awards

       4 – 4:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 209

Chair: Daniel J. Christie, PhD, Ohio State University at Marion

J. Christopher Cohrs, PhD; Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany: Moral Disengagement and Support for War
Barbara S. Tint, PhD, Portland State University: Transitions and Peacebuilding: Exploring Dynamics of External and Internal Change

INVITED ADDRESS: Morton Deutsch Award

       5 – 5:50 p.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 160B

Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, City University of New York Hunter College: Reframing Youth Violence: Interventions That Reduce Its Social Determinants


SATURDAY 8/16

Women in Black Vigil

    7 – 8 a.m. Location to be announced (near Boston Convention Center); contact tobach@amnh.org for details.

Peace Psychology Working Group and Task Force

          8 – 8:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite
Steve Handwerker, PhD, Peace & Spirituality Working Group; Daniel Mayton, PhD, Peace Psychology Task Force.


Symposium: Moral Disengagement and Social Injustice: War and Peace

    9 – 9:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 103

Cochairs: Kathleen Malley-Morrison, EdD, Boston University; Michael Corgan, PhD, Boston University; Abram Trosky, MA, Boston University: Moral
      Disengagement and Social Injustice: Theory and Assessment
Sherri McCarthy, PhD, Northern Arizona University: Moral Disengagement and Peace: Russian and Brazilian Responses
Tanvi Zaveri, MA, Boston University: Moral Disengagement and Invasion: Peru, Lebanon, and the United States
Mariana Barbosa, BA, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal: Moral Disengagement in War and Peace: Portugal and the United States

Symposium: Empirical research on Peacefulness and Warmongering

    10 – 10:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 103

Chair: Daniel M. Mayton II, PhD, LewisClark State College

John J. Dempsey, Jr., PhD, Independent Practice, Vestal, NY: Developmental Path of a Peaceful Person

Linden L. Nelson, PhD, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo: Cognitive and Motivational Predictors of Interpersonal

      Peacefulness and Militaristic Attitude

William A. McConochie, PhD, Political Psychology Research, Inc., Eugene, OR: Measure of Warmongering: Multifaceted but Primarily Unitary Trait

Conversation Hour: Honoring Our Pioneers in Peace Psychology—Conversation and Lunch

    11 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. RSVP by 8/1; Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Grand Salons J and K

Co-hosted: Peace Division and Psychologists for Social Responsibility

Chair: Richard V. Wagner, PhD, Bates College

Dorothy Ciarlo, PhD, Retired, Member of APA, PsySR and Division 48

Milton Schwebel, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University

M. Brewster Smith, PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Ethel Tobach, PhD, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY,
Herbert C. Kelman, PhD, Harvard University

iNVITED ADDRESS: New Directions in Peace Psychology Early Career Award Winners Speak

    1 – 1:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Provincetown Room

Chair: Daniel J. Christie, PhD, Ohio State University at Marion

Peter T. Coleman, PhD, MA, Teachers College, Columbia University: Suppose We Took Peace Seriously? A Dynamical Systems Approach

Victoria Sanford, PhD, City University of New York Herbert H. Lehman College: Land of Pale Hands: Femicide, Social Cleansing, Impunity

in Guatemala

J. Christopher Cohrs, PhD, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany: Social Psychological Research on Peace: An Overview
Daniel L. Shapiro, PhD, Harvard University: Challenge of Identity in Our Globalized World

Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s Development of a Casebook on Psychology, Military and Political Ethics, and Interrogations

    2 – 2:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

A Discussion with Jean Marie Arrigo, PhD., Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony (PEAT); Co-hosted with PsySR.

BUSINESS MEETING

    3 – 3:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Provincetown Room

Chair: Deborah Fish Ragin, PhD, Montclair University.


PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

    4 – 4:50 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Provincetown Room

Deborah Fish Ragin, PhD, Montclair University.

Honoring Peace Psychologists & Our International Humanitarian Workers: A Reception & Social Hour

    6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

All are welcome; Co-hosted with PsySR.




SUNDAY 8/17

International Perspectives on Reconciliation, A Discussion

                    8 – 8:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite
                            A discussion with Mathilde Salmberg, PsyD, Georgetown University, and colleagues.


Symposium: Reducing Service Disparities for Culturally Diverse Children—Research, Practice, and Policy Intersections (co-sponsored with Division 37)

    9 – 10:50 a.m. Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, Meeting Room 150

Chair: Julie M. Levitt, PhD, Independent Practice, Bala Cynwyd, PA; Margarita Alegría, PhD, Cambridge Health Alliance, Somerville, MA: Disparities
      Framework for Children’s Health and Social Services
Anna S. Lau, PhD, University of California–Los Angeles: Disparities in Youth Mental Health Services Depend on Problem Type
Amy E. West, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago: Culturally Informed Methods to Reduce Service Disparities for Urban American Indian Youth
Bertha Holliday, PhD, APA Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Washington, DC: Systems Approach to Psychological Services for Diverse Children

and Families

            Larke Nahme Huang, PhD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD: Contextual Issues in Mental Health and Substance
              Abuse Service Delivery for Culturally Diverse Youth: Implications for Policy

Discussant: Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, Children’s Hospital Boston, MA

An Educator’s Experience in the Post 9/11 World, a Conversation

                10 – 10:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite
A discussion with Debbie Almontaser, MBA, MS, former Project Director and founding Principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, NYC.


Street Violence and Its Impact on Children and Families: Developing Conflict resolution and Violence Prevention Programs

    11 – 11:50 a.m. Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Peace Division Hospitality Suite

Discussion with Ann E. Tobey, PhD, Director of the Juvenile Justice & Youth Advocacy Program for Boston, Wheelock College.

Symposium: Integration of Civil RIghts, Peace, and Environmental Movements

    12 – 1:50 p.m. Sheraton Hotel, Fairfax Room

Chair: Yasser A. Payne, PhD, University of Delaware; Debbie Almontaser, MS, MBA, New York City: Educator’s Look at the Three Movements
Anderson J. Franklin, PhD, Boston College: Different Bottle, Same Flavor: Civil Rights and Peace Efforts Repeated
Joseph E. Trimble, PhD, Western Washington University: Interethnic Conflict, Colonialism, and Conflict Negotiations Among American Indians
Albert Valencia, EdD, California State University Fresno: Civil Rights, Peace, Environmental Movements Need to Include Migrants/Immigrants



HOSPITALITY SUITE HOURS:

Thursday, 4-9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; and Saturday 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-noon

EXHIBIT HOURS:

Thursday, 4-5 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; and Saturday 8 a.m.-8:30 p.m.

All are welcome to view “Life Worth Remembering: Images from Four Street Memorials" photographic exhibition from Wheelock College of Boston Street Memorials in memory of child victims of violence, coordinated by Dr. Ann E. Tobey.

Educational material about peace psychology and our theme will be available during Suite hour

Visit the APA Convention Website for Registration Information at www.apa.org/convention
Download the Peace Division Program Schedule in PDF Format

Visit the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence Website at www.peacepsych.org!