Keynote Speaker
Paul ChappellÂ
       
Author and Peace Educator
Paul is an international peace educator and serves as the Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain. He is the author of the seven-book Road to Peace series about ending war, waging peace, the art of living , and our shared humanity. Â
www.paulkchappell.com
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Watani Stiner             
Watani went to prison in 1969 after two black Panthers were shot and killed at UCLA by a member of another revolutionary Black Power group called Us, of which Watani was a part. Watani and his brother were sentenced to life in prison although neither of them had taken part in the killings. Five years later, he escaped from San Quentin and fled to South America, where he lived in exile for twenty years and raised 7 children In 1994 , concerned for the safety and welfare of his children, Watani voluntarily walked into the U. S. Embassy in the country of Suriname and negotiated his surrender.  It was in 1998 that Watani signed up for his first workshop in San Quentin Prison.  Following 21 more years of incarceration, he was released in 2015, and continues to share his personal story of reconciliation and advocate for Restorative Justice.Â
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