SUPERIOR (WPR) A group of college students wants to make a world of difference this week.  So they're putting on the 3rd annual Peace building Conference at UW-Superior.

There's the Oxfam hunger banquet.  People pay $5 to get either a bowl of rice like most of the world's third world population would have or a full course meal, something Americans get. UW-Superior senior Ryan Hebert says the 10 percent who get the big meal feel a bit uncomfortable.

Then there's the landmine exhibit that Zach Anderson oversees.  Anderson says landmines are no longer just a third world problem. He says Americans are coming home who are hurt by landmines as part of war.

Bryce Harp's focus is genocide.  He wants to see the 1948 international anti-genocide law become more than a piece of paper. Harp says the international community is always late to respond to genocide.

Then there's the fair trade bazaar. Student Janice Mathews says people who produce the clothes, toys, fruit and coffee we consume need to get paid a living wage.  She says it’s not fair Americans pay $2 for a cup of coffee when the person working on the coffee plantation is lucky to make 30 cents a day.

The program runs all week at UW-Superior's Rothwell Student Center.  

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