2011–12 Conflict

Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World. “The Mother of All Conflicts—Infinite Economic Growth vs. a Finite Planet.”

Stacy Bannerman, author of When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Reservists and the Families They Leave Behind. “The War at Home: What America’s Longest War Has Shown Us About Who We Are, and Who We Can Become.”

Doug Peacock, naturalist, outdoorsman, and author of Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness and Walking it Off: A Veteran’s Chronicle of War And Wilderness. “The Greatest Adventure: A Survivor’s Guide to a Melting Century.”

Linda Chapman, director, Art Therapy Institute of the Redwoods. “The Neurobiology of Violence and Healing with Art Therapy.”

Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and retired career officer in the U.S. Army. Bacevich is the author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010) and The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008). “A Decade of War,”