The Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Duke/UNC Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution invite you to attend:

Divided Cities and Regions - Planners' Forum Symposium

Negotiating Conflict Between People, Business and Government
November 3 & 4, 2011
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Nov. 3 Skills Session - New East Hall, UNC Campus
Nov. 4 Sessions - Greenlaw 101, UNC Campus

For more information and to register, visit www.conflictplanning.org

Speakers:
Scott Bollens, Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation at UCI
Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT
David Godschalk, Stephen Baxter Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill
Katherine Lewis Parker, Legal Director at the North Carolina American Civil Liberties Union
Pedro Rios, U.S./Mexico Border Program Director at the American Friends Service Committee
Dr. John Cooper, FEMA Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Program Director at MDC

Development occurs in the context of conflict, and development can be the cause of conflict. Whether the project is the sole cause or merely the catalyst, the process of development agitates some of our deepest beliefs about progress, sustainability, equity and justice. Cities across the United States and the World must constantly address division in the process of development and the consequences of division on their residents and neighborhoods. Divided Cities will bring together top scholars and professionals to discuss how to mediate conflict in everyday practice: what have we learned about conflict, and what must we still learn? How do environmental disputes connect to older race- and class-based tensions? How can we initiate economic and community development in a conflict environment?

For more information and to register, visit www.conflictplanning.org