Jill Sternberg/Gamaliel Chair in Peace & Justice

Jill Sternberg

Jill Sternberg was the first graduate of UW-Milwaukee's Peace Studies Program she is the Sept/Oct 2005 Gamaliel Chair in Peace & Justice. She has established a peace center in East Timor, training men and women in non-violence. Jill self-designed the first Peace Studies Major at UW-Milwaukee and has established herself as a gifted and creative leader. She has spent extensive time in the Philippines and East Timor, establishing a peace center, training women and men in non-violence, and developing intercultural mediation teams (just ‘Google’ Jill Sternberg and be amazed at her work and energy.)

A 1990 graduate of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, she has also been active in the Peace Brigades North America Project and the Balkan Peace Team. Jill currently does peace work, including counter-military recruiting education, in New York through A.J. Muste Memorial Institute.

You can find more information about peace and justice efforts through the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN)

Music Featured:
We Know War - John McCutcheon
Simply Love - Carol Johnson
Peace Will Come - Tom Paxton

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SIA-000010

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Jill Sternberg, Gamaliel Chair in Peace and Justice

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Talking about what has been going on in East Timor
Talking about building a peace center in East Timor
Her work as a teacher of nonviolence.

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Jill Sternberg

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