Former CBS News correspondent Charles Kuralt hosts a public satellite teleconference on how communities locally and around the world can combat violence to be shown 1-2:30 p.m. Friday in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium.
"Stop Violence, Promote Development: Social Workers and the Challenge of Violence Worldwide" will be broadcast to more than 300 college and university campuses, Veterans Affairs medical centers and other sites nationwide.
Teleconference guests will include a Latino gang member from Los Angeles who now works to make peace between rival gangs; an Indian activist who battles gender discrimination, poverty, illiteracy and violence against women in Southeast Asia; and a U.S. photographer who documented the carnage of El Salvador's civil war, then watched young Salvadoran refugees embrace Los Angeles gang life and take gang warfare back to their homeland.
The teleconferences are part of a national campus teach-in on violence, its causes and its solutions sponsored by the National Association of Social Workers and the U.S. Agency for International Development, in collaboration with the Council on Social Work Education, the Benton Foundation, Carolina's School of Social Work and the UNC Center for Public Television.
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