{"id":2203,"date":"2014-03-04T02:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2018-06-26T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T19:41:45","slug":"highlights-featuring-his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2014\/03\/04\/highlights-featuring-his-holiness-the-14th-dalai-lama\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights featuring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">His Holiness the 14<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Dalai Lama\u00a0and keynote speaker, Sister Helen Prejean, a strong advocate of eliminating capital punishment, were the featured presenters the first day of the 26<sup>th<\/sup>Nobel Peace Prize Forum, \u201cCrossing Boundaries to Create Common Ground\u201d, hosted by Augsburg College, the University of\u00a0<\/span>Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Policy, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/03\/Dalai-Lama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2204 size-thumbnail\" title=\"Dalai Lama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/03\/Dalai-Lama-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/03\/Dalai-Lama-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2014\/03\/Dalai-Lama-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A week prior to March 1<sup>st<\/sup> the event had already sold out, at 3400 tickets. Upon arrival at 7:00am, the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">atrium of the Minneapolis Convention center was packed with streams of people waiting in line to hear\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">the Dalai Lama. Participants arrived from all over the world, experienced the only event that celebrates\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and inspires peacemaking. In addition to many sponsorships that made this\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">event possible, Google + is also sponsoring the event and live streaming all the workshops and speakers\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">online. To connect digitally the Forum can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+NobelpeaceprizeforumOrg\/posts\">Google +<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nobelforum?ref=br_tf\">Facebook<\/a>, and Twitter. Audience\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">engagement whether near or far is what makes the Forum successful and meaningful for all involved.\u00a0<\/span>Thank you for your support!<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">There are still tickets available for Law &amp; Business Day, Health &amp; Science Day, and Global Day.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif;\">Please consider joining us for the following Forum days, March 7, 8, &amp; 9th\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/peace.augsburg.edu\/\">peace.augsburg.edu<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Holiness the 14th\u00a0Dalai Lama\u00a0and keynote speaker, Sister Helen Prejean, a strong advocate of eliminating capital punishment, were the featured &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49496,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/49496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}