Oct. 1, 1998
Contact: University News Services (804) 924-7116

TICKETS FOR NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES CONFERENCE TO BECOME AVAILABLE NOV. 2

	Tickets for each session of the historic Nobel Peace Laureates
Conference, to be held Nov. 5 and 6 at the University of Virginia, will
be made available free to the University community and general public on
Monday, Nov. 2, conference organizers have announced.
	Ticket distribution will begin at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 2 at the Scott
Stadium east ticket booth, located on Whitehead Road, and will continue
until 2 p.m. while availability lasts.  Parking for those seeking a
ticket will be available in a designated area near the ticket booth and
also in metered lots on Whitehead Road.
	The international group of Nobel peace laureates will convene in
morning and afternoon sessions on Nov. 5 and 6 in Old Cabell Hall
Auditorium to discuss with each other and the audience their efforts to
promote peace, human rights and reconciliation around the world.
	Only one ticket, providing entry to one of the four sessions,
will be issued per person. The sessions and themes of the peace laureate
they will focus on are:
NOV. 5				
Session 1,  9-11:30 a.m 			
-- JosŽ Ramos-Horta (Nobel Laureate, 1996, East Timor), "Democracy
and Diplomacy in the Asia Pacific Region"
-- Betty Williams (Nobel Laureate, 1976-7, Northern Ireland),
"Children's Rights: The Need to Establish Safe Havens for Children of
War"  
Session 2, 1:30-3:45 p.m.
-- Rigoberta Menchœ Tum (Nobel Laureate, 1992, Guatemala), "The Role
of Indigenous People in a Democratic Guatemala"			
-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Nobel Laureate, 1984, South Africa),
"Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Experiences of the Truth
Commission"			


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NOV. 6				
Session 3, 9-11 a.m.
-- President Oscar Arias Sanchez (Nobel Laureate, 1987, Costa Rica),
"International Code of Conduct for Arms Transfers"			
-- Harn Yawnghwe, on behalf of Aung Sang Suu Kyi (Nobel Laureate, 1991,
Burma) "The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and Its Impact on Asian
Values and Democratic Principles"			
Session 4, 1:30-4:15 p.m.
-- Bobby Muller, speaking about the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (Nobel Laureate, 1997) "The Vietnam Veterans of America
Foundation and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines"				
-- Jody Williams (Nobel Laureate, 1997, U.S.) "International
Organization in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines"						
-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Nobel Laureate, 1989, Tibet) "The Need
for Compassion in Society:  The Case of Tibet"			
	Civil rights leader Julian Bond will moderate the conference.

	Tickets must be picked up in person Nov. 2 and, for security
reasons, photo identification and verification of Social Security number
or other positive identification will be required to receive a ticket.
Tickets are non-transferable.  Complete identification will again be
required with a ticket for admission to a conference session.  Cameras,
recorders, cell phones, backpacks, briefcases and large purses won't be
allowed in Cabell Hall.
	Public viewing of the conference for those without a ticket will
be available in Newcomb Hall Theater on the Central Grounds, Caplin
Auditorium at the Law School on the North Grounds, and the Nursing
School's McLeod Hall Auditorium where live broadcasts of the sessions
will be shown on large projection screens.  The conference also will be
broadcast over U.Va.'s Local Area Network on channel 43 and in
Charlottesville and Albemarle County on Adelphia Cable channel 14 as
well as live nationally via satellite (see attached information).
	The Nobel Peace Laureates Conference on Human Rights, Conflict,
and Reconciliation is presented by the University of Virginia and the
Institute for Asian Democracy. University sponsors include the Office of
the President, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, and the Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Series committee.
Corporate and individual sponsors include Dr. Inder and Vera Vaswani
Chawla, Terrence D. Daniels, PMD International, Inc., CFW Intelos, and
Wallace Stettinius.
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	For more information visit the conference website at
http://www.virginia.edu.nobel/ or call (804) 924-7908.  

Television reporters should contact the TV News Office at 924-7550.