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Jane S. DeLung, president of the Population Resource Center, will speak on “Revolutionary Change: The Power of Youth” at a brown bag noon Wednesday in Interfaith Chapel, Hogg Hall. Lunch may be brought or purchased for $3.
The Population Resource Center is an NGO that reports to Congress and other interested parties on issues of population and its general effect on a variety of policies. DeLung will talk about the impact of youth in the world, their changing demographics, and the differences in culture and aspirations from region to region.
Raisa Sheynberg ’04 (Pennington, N.J.), an international affairs major and government and law minor, served a summer internship at The Population Resource Center through Lafayette’s Neil Levin ’76 Public Service Endowment.
The brown bag is part of a series, The Conflicts of Resolution, sponsored in part by the Chaplain’s Office and organized primarily by Sheynberg. The series will conclude with another brown bag noon Monday in Interfaith Chapel, featuring a panel of students who come from regions experiencing a conflict.
“They will speak honestly about their experience and opinions rather than providing an objective overview of the conflict,” says Sheynberg.
The Conflicts of Resolution is an attempt to raise awareness of the nuances of conflict resolution and present a different approach to resolving them, she says.
“The whole effort is aimed at getting a course at Lafayette on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution,” explains Sheynberg, who recently presented honors research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research on why the Camp David 2000 Summit ended with no agreement. “Professor (Joshua) Sanborn has said that he will work on developing the course to be offered next spring.”
Other talks in the series have included: