Nonviolence Youth Summit
By: Nina Criscuolo
Updated: October 8, 2010
Nearly four-hundred students gathered on the University of Arkansas campus to promote non-violent behavior. Two groups teamed-up for the event -- the Department of Human Services and the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr Commission. Both say teaching young people to deal with conflict in a postive way -- can have a huge impact. According to one Rogers teen, she hopes the kids who participated Friday will pass-on what they've learned to others, so her school can become a safer place. "We have violence all the time, I mean it's in our schools. We just had kids fighting just yesterday in our schools," says Taylor Wise. Kids participated in discussions about what it takes to be a leader among peers, as well as racial profiling. Many local leaders helped out, including Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan and State Senator Sue Madison.
