Frostburg: Promoting Peace on Campus and in the Community

Nearly 100 students, faculty, volunteers of Mountainside Community Mediation Center (MCMC) and other Frostburg community members participated in a peace march that led to the Sustaining Campus and Community Dialogue Series on Oct. 15. The theme of the march was promoting peace on campus and in the community and was held to celebrate National Conflict Resolution Day and the American Bar Association’s Mediation Week. T-shirts designed by student Roland Lovett promoted “Walk in Peace, Learn Through Love.”

The march was organized by communication studies major Antionette Coward, who is interning with MCMC for her CMST capstone, and was sponsored by the dialogue series project, the FSU Intercultural Communication class, FSU’s departments of Communication Studies and Philosophy, and Allegany College of Maryland’s Peace Studies Club. Sponsors and others, including Al Feldstein, creator of the “Buttons of the Cause” poster, provided giveaways to promote deliberative democracy, alternative dispute resolution and peace. The dialogue series is sponsored by FSU, MCMC and the Maryland Judiciary’s Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office.

See a video of the march at http://youtu.be/kL7iN2jd7Wc. For more info on the dialogue series, which will continue in the spring, see www.frostburg.edu/dept/cmst/dialogue-series.