Historically and today, at all levels of media and education, and in most nations, but especially ours, nationalism and the glorification of war are practiced structurally and intentionally to convince people that it is acceptable to participate in state-sponsored mass killing. Join Dr. Leo Sandy for an exploration and discussion of how pervasive militarism and nationalism are used to sell war to young people and all of us. Dr. Sandy hopes to help us understand the ways we might challenge the persistent propaganda of empire and short-circuit the war machine.

Leo R. Sandy, Ed.D. is currently professor emeritus at Plymouth State University where he taught in the Counselor Education and School Psychology program and where he also taught peace studies. Leo completed his graduate work at Boston University in 1983 and has been a school psychologist for over 40 years. He currently doed adjunct teaching at Keene State College and Plymouth State University and volunteers as a parenting educator at Concord State Prison. Dr. Sandy is a Vietnam era Navy veteran who is married and has two adult children.

About NHPA’s bi-weekly Zoom Peace & Justice Conversation Series: 2020’s upheavals brought us to a new moment of reckoning and possibility. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to bring you into these conversations about issues and options for the future.  There is no charge to attend, but your contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated: https://nhpeaceaction.org/donate/