2018
Paul K. Chappell
A New Peace Paradigm: Our Human Needs and the Tangles of Trauma
Wed, Oct 17, 2018 | 4:30 pm, Room B101 (Lecture Theatre), Abbotsford campus
UFV President Dr. Joanne MacLean is pleased to welcome guest speaker and peace activist Paul K. Chappell to the Abbotsford campus as part of UFV's President's Leadership Lecture Series.
A former soldier who now devotes his life to waging peace, Paul K. Chappell is well qualified to speak on both war and peace. Through his experiences, he has forged his own understanding of war, peace, rage, and trauma, and has focused on creating a life of vision, purpose, and hope.
He graduated from West Point Academy, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a captain in the US Army.
Currently, he serves as the Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He also teaches courses and workshops on peace leadership and peace literacy. He is the author of the seven-book Road to Peace series about ending war, waging peace, the art of living, and our shared humanity. The first six published books in this series are Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, The Art of Waging Peace, The Cosmic Ocean, and Soldiers of Peace.
Chappell’s presentation is titled A New Peace Paradigm: Our Human Needs and the Tangles of Trauma.
Our understanding of peace is only as good as our understanding of the human condition and trauma. Realizing that humanity is facing new challenges that require us to become as well-trained in waging peace as soldiers are in waging war, Iraq war veteran Paul K. Chappell, who grew up in a violent household, created Peace Literacy to help students and adults from various backgrounds work toward their full potential and a more peaceful world.