The roles of citizens and voluntary organizations in managing peace in Northern Ireland will be the topic of a presentation at West Virginia University at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Hatfield’s in the Mountainlair.
p. The evening will include lectures by Arthur Williamson, director of the Center for Voluntary Action Studies at the University of Ulster, and Jon Van Til, a professor at Rutgers University. Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Dean M. Duane Nellis will introduce the speakers.

Van Til has been appointed as a Carlson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the WVU Division of Social Work. The Carlson Professorship was established through a gift by Anna Deane Carlson, a 1943 graduate of the sociology program. The professorship enables the School of Applied Social Sciences to invite a distinguished teacher and researcher to come to campus and spend a semester working with WVU students and faculty.

Van Til will lead a study tour of WVU and Rutgers students to Northern Ireland in Spring 2004.

The event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the WVU Division of Social Work in the Eberly College, in association with the School of Applied Social Sciences, Office of International Programs and WVU Honors Program.