Creating a Non-Violent Future
Creating a Non-Violent Future: Children's Rights and Advances in Protection from Corporal Punishment

VIDEO RECORDINGS
To View Special Address from Marta Santos Pais, click here:
Marta Santos Pais Address
View the live presentations here
See Speaker PowerPoint Presentations:
Gershoff Presentation
Lombardo & Polonko Presentation
Distinguished guests and speakers included:
Name | Affiliation |
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Marjorie Fujara, M.D. | John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, Chicago |
James Garbarino, Ph.D. | Maude C. Clarke Chair in Humanistic Psychology, Senior Faculty Fellow, Center for the Human Rights of Children, Loyola University Chicago |
Gertrud Lenzer, Dr. phil. | Professor and Director at Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York |
Christian Pfeiffer, Ph.D. | Director of Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hannover, Germany |
Susan Bitensky, J.D. | Alan S. Zekelman Professor of International Human Rights Law, Director of Lori E. Talsky Center for Human Rights of Women and Children, Michigan State University |
Joan Durrant, Ph.D. | Professor at the Department of Family Social Sciences, Adjunct Professor at Arthur V. Mauro Center for Peace and Justice, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin |
George Holden, Ph.D. | Professor and Undergraduate Director at Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences, Southern Methodist University |
Asadah Kirkland | Author of Beating Black Kids, New York |
Samuel Martin | New Foundation for Biblical Research, Jerusalem, Israel |
Marie Masterson, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor at Dominican University, Chicago |
Seth Scholer, M.D. | Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville |
Catherine Taylor, Ph.D. | Associate Professor at the Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans |
Eric Weber, Ph.D. | Associate Professor of Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi, Oxford |
In addition to the speakers, there was a special welcome from Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children. The address was read by Gertrud Lenzer.
A special thank you to our steering committee who put in many hours preparing for the event:
Name | Title | Affiliation |
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Ellen Chiocca, MSN, CPNP | Clinical Assistant Professor | DePaul University, Chicago |
Eric Sanchez Gomez | Student | Loyola University Chicago |
Madeleine Y. Gomez, Ph.D. | Founder | PsycHealth Ltd., Chicago |
George W. Holden, Ph.D. | Chair, Professor and Undergraduate Director | Southern Methodist University, Dallas |
Katherine Kaufka Walts, J.D. | Director, Center for the Human Rights of Children | Loyola University Chicago |
Gertrud Lenzer, Dr. phil |
Professor, and Director, Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy & Public Service |
Brooklyn College, The City University of New York |
Marie Masterson, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Dominican University, Chicago |
This event was sponsored by Loyola University Chicago's Center for the Human Rights of Children, Family Health Network, Community Care Alliance and Hartgrove Hospital, PsycHealth Ltd., Infant Welfare Society of Chicago, Children's Studies Center at Brooklyn College CUNY, Southern Methodist University, Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine and Biomedical Graduate Degree Programs, & Loyola University Chicago's School of Education.