The panel was co-sponsored by Radcliffe Education for Action and Phillips Brooks House International Peace Games.

It brought an end to a day of activities commemorating Violence Against Youth Awareness Day. Other activities for the day included a noontime demonstration on the steps of Widener and a candlelight vigil immediately following the panel.

The day was part of the annual Education For Action-sponsored action week, "Challenging Systems of Violence."

"Today our main focus was to increase awareness and to give students concrete steps so they can go out and deal with the problem of violence against youth," said Lisa D. Graustein '96, who is a co-director of the International Peace Games.

Peace Games is a Phillips Brooks House-sponsored program that involves more than 150 undergraduate and community volunteers who teach over 800 fifth and sixth graders how to deal with violence and conflict resolution.

Meredith M. Quinn '99, one of three co-coordinators for the day's events, said the program's goals were to promote awareness of children and violence and to provide students with information to act on the issue.

"Many people think the only adults who should be worried about violence against children are those with children," Quinn said.

"But I think it is everyone's responsibility," she said