West Point graduate and Iraq War veteran Paul K. Chappell speaking to 1200 people at the outdoor Hall of Philosophy of the Chautauqua Institution about realistic hope, the need for peace literacy, the myth that human beings are naturally violent, and the possibility of ending war between nations.
Traveling across the United States and internationally, NAPF Peace Leadership Director Paul K. Chappell lectures on waging peace, ending war, the art of living, what it means to be human. He also teaches workshops and courses on peace leadership. Click on the pictures below to read articles from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation about these events.
NAPF Peace Leadership Director Paul K. Chappell was keynote speaker on the opening night of the OLMUN 2014 Model UN conference in Oldenberg, Germany. Chappell spoke to over 700 high school students from Germany and other European countries on "Why World Peace Is Possible."
Paul was invited by the University of the Sacred Heart in Northern Uganda to teach a three-day Peace Leadership training. Participants included people from South Sudan and Uganda, along with American nuns. Decades of continuous war have resulted in unimaginable traumatic wounds.
NAPF Peace Leadership Director Paul K. Chappell spoke on the principles of nonviolence at the Building Nonviolent Indigenous Rights Movements workshop in Nova Scotia, Canada. This workshop was held at the Tatamagouche Retreat Center outside Halifax, and sponsored by the Wabanaki Confederacy and the Land Peace Foundation.
Paul taught a NAPF Peace Leadership workshop at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Young activists from Arise for Social Justice and students from Greenfield Community College’s Peace, Justice, and Environmental Studies Program learned how to overcome anger, resist violence, and bring nonviolence into their lives.
