War. Good morning. Fork you all for joining todays session. Its going to be really informative. So glad youre all here with this very distinguished panel. Leadership, ethics and Practice Initiative here at the elliott school. The goal of this initiative sponsored by our dean is to give ofater profile to the topics leadership, ethics and their Practical Application in the education of our students graduate and undergraduate. This initiative brings practitioners to the school to learn about ethical and leadership challenges those practitioners face and how they address them. The same bringing scholars to the school to address these very same topics. I would also like to mention this morning that we are being filmed by cspan history. So we are fortunate to have these proceedings recorded. Young people both in and out of faced huge questions during the vietnam war. Would they take a stand. How would they put their values into practice. How would they come together to make a difference . An
Coming up next, contributors and editors from the book the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement, discuss their personal experiences and that movement. The Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office Hosted this event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. Of thee director Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. Me methodists actually hired right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and
This is a 90 minute event. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to the book launch for the people make the piece, lessons from the vietnam Antiwar Movement. Hi, my name is doug hofstetter. I am the director of the Mennonite Central Committee. United nations office. I actually got my start during the Antiwar Movement here with the United Methodists office, which is donating this room today. The methodists actually hired me right after i came back from vietnam doing my alternative service there with the Mennonite Central Committee in the middle of the war, in the middle of a war zone, helping children learn to read and write their own language. I wanted to also announced to everyone that we have a number of cameras here in the room. Cspan is covering it. So, when we get to questions and answers i will ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you so that you can be heard by the audience that will be watching on Television Later on. Thank you very much and welcome to todays launch. [applause]