Purpose of Symposium
The purpose of the working symposium was to share community engagement strategies across communities and professions, between universities and communities, and across borders. Participants included Baltimore community members and community-engaged faculty from UMB’s seven professional schools. Participants tackled such issues as:
- What are the most effective evidence-based solutions to address community tensions?
- What strategy has worked well in your community or through your community engagement that should be shared with symposium colleagues from Coventry and Baltimore?
- What are enduring frustrations in your community or in your community engagement efforts that could benefit from new ideas from symposium colleagues at Coventry and Baltimore?
Keynote Lecture and Discussion
"Building Cohesion in Deeply Divided Societies" by Lord John Thomas Alderdice, U.K. Parliament
Introduced by Jay Perman, MD, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lord Alderdice is a member of the UK Parliament and Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has been involved in the Irish Peace Process for the last 30 years as a political activist, party leader, and negotiator as well as a civil society leader, academic thinker and analyst. His work challenges deeply held views of the role of law, religion and culture in community distress and community reconciliation. Alderdice has taken his explorations and interventions to many areas of conflict around the globe beyond Northern Ireland.
Symposium speakers included:
Roger Ward, University of Maryland Baltimore Chief Accountability Officer, Vice President of Operations and Planning, Vice Dean of the Graduate School
Mike Hardy, Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University
Bishop Frank M. Reid III, African Methodist Church
David Perry, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago and former Director, Great Cities Institute
Sinead Ouillon, Programme Leader, the Coventry City University Initiative, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations
Michael Pinard and Professor Renée Hutchins, Co-Directors, Maryland Carey Law Clinical Law Program
Harris Beider, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
Bronwyn Mayden, Professor and Assistant Dean, UMB School of Social Work
Susan M. Wozenski, Assistant Professor and Vice Chair, Family Community Health Program, University of Maryland School of Nursing
John Cuddihy, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
David McIlhatton, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
Community panel moderated by Ashley Valis, Executive Director, UMB Strategic Initiatives and Community Engagement, include:
Major Sheree Briscoe, Baltimore Police Department
DeJuan Patterson, PATIENTS Program
Michael Seipp, Executive Director, South West Partnership
J.R. Lee, South West Partnership Public Safety Committee Chair
Erika Alston-Buck, Penn North Recovery
Written work developed by the participants will be published in the Carey School of Law’s Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class.
