The Quaker Initiative to End Torture’s Conference on Torture will take place June 2-4, 2006 at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. The conference has the dual intentions of education and action for the long term.  Speakers will discuss the basics of current legislation, international law, treatment of survivors and perpetrators, and the recent history of torture.  The focus will be on creating and choosing actions to end torture.  The Planning Committee hopes to draw on the work of many groups and will have legislative updates from Friends Committee on National Legislation and reports on the torture in United States prisons from American Friends Service Committee staff. Friends are encouraged to send ideas for workshop topics, and names of potential presenters.

John Calvi