(Last revised 15 Mar 2004; under significant re-construction)
Background:
Students following PSTD 701.MV, Peace Studies Seminar or who are using the Seminar for PSTD 190.10, Peace Studies Project are required to read, consider, discuss and write about associated articles or web-materials for each event they attend for credit. The following list provides the links to those readings.
Wk. 1: 12 Jan: *Opening of
the PSTD Seminar: Informal Discussion of PSTD with Prof. Fleishman, Interim
Co-Director of PSTD.
Wk. 2: 19 Jan: Martin Luther King Day (No classes)
19 Jan: MLK Day of Service: "A Day ON...NOT A Day OFF". The Annual MLK Day of Service.
"Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail", 16 April 1963. From The Nobel Prize Internet Archive at [http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/]
"The Martin Luther King Day of Service" web-site. [http://www.mlkday.org/] Sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service [http://www.nationalservice.org/] and USA Freedom Corps [http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/].
20 Jan: "16 Words/500 American Lives: A Vigil at the US Capitol to Remember Lost Lives".
See the resources at "Background Information and Links on the Occupation
of Iraq", UnitedforPeace.org [http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=359]
20 Jan: WORDS OF CHOICE a dynamic theater piece of pro-choice stories of women and their lives.
22 Jan: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award Ceremony.
"Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail", 16 April 1963. From The Nobel Prize Internet Archive at [http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peace/]
22 Jan: "A New Afghanistan Challenges of Governance and the Rule of Law".
Vivien Hart, "SPECIAL REPORT 107: Democratic Constitution Making", United
States Institute of Peace, July 2003.
[http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr107.html]
The USIP's Special Initiative on the Muslim World,Afghanistan Working
Group, "SPECIAL REPORT 105: Unfinished Business in Afghanistan: Warlordism,
Reconstruction, and Ethnic Harmony", United States Institute of Peace,
April 2003.
[http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr105.html]
Wk. 3. 26 Jan: *Students discuss Peace and Conflict Resolution; Prof. Fleishman, Interim Co-Director of PSTD.
25-27 Jan: "Three Minutes to Midnight: NPRI Symposium on the Impending Threat of Nuclear War"
27 Jan: "A Town Hall Meeting: The War on Terrorism and the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the World".
29-30
Jan: JSCOPE
2004, the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics, Hilton
Springfield Hotel, Springfield, Virginia.
Wk. 4: 2 Feb: *"Contagion and Conflict: The Role of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines in War and Peace" -- Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Dept of Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University, and Interim Co-Director of the GWU PSTD Program
"Cures for the Third
World's problems", Samuel Broder, Stephen
L. Hoffman, Peter J. Hotez.
SUMMARY: The application of genomics to the diseases
plaguing the developing world may have huge medical and economic benefits
for those countries and might even prevent...
CONTEXT: ...research into developing world diseases,
as some of these proteins could also be reformulated into vaccine targets
(Hotez, 2002a). In the case of hookworm, a vaccine initiative is underway,
which relies heavily on eliciting host......
EMBO Reports3, 806 - 812 (01 Sep 2002)
[http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v3/n9/full/embor071.html]
"Vaccines as instruments
of foreign policy", Peter J. Hotez
SUMMARY: The new vaccines for tropical infectious
diseases may have unanticipated uses beyond fighting diseases...
CONTEXT: ...Indeed, the notion that vaccines
may function as agents of conflict resolution is one that has deep historical
roots (Hotez, 2001). Edward Jenner, the British inventor of the first smallpox
vaccine, was considered a hero in France...... EMBO Reports2, 862 - 868
(01 Oct 2001)
[http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/embor/journal/v2/n10/full/embor306.html]
5 Feb: Nariman Gasimzada, Visiting Scholar, Georgetown University, "Islam and State: Searching For and Shaping New Models in former Soviet Republics with a Muslim Majority".
5 Feb: 4:30-7:30 pm, Thursday, February 5, 2004, Peace Corps Recruitment -- Marvin Center Grand Ballroom - Third Floor, 800 21st St, NW, Washington, DC 20052 -- Opportunity Knocks 2004 Information and Career Fair, George Washington University.
Peace Corps web-site information. [http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn]
6 Feb: Friday, 4 p.m., GWU's Marvin Center Rm 309, The GWU Philosophy Department's Elton Lecture: Jeff McMahan on "Unjust War".
Articles: (i) Encyclopedia Resources
(i-a) Moseley, Alex, "Just War Theory", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2001. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/j/justwar.htm
(i-b) Orend, Brian, "War", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2000. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/war/
(ii) Variety of Relevant Articles for Discussion and Consideration for Journal Entries
(ii-a) Davenport, Manuel, "Moral Restrictions on the Conduct of War",
JSCOPE 2000
(XXII). http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Davenport00.html
(ii-b) Kelsay, John, "Osama bin Laden and the Just Conduct of War,
AMERICA for Oct. 8, 2001
http://www.americapress.org/articles/Kelsay.htm
(ii-c) Kaufman, Frank, "Religion and the War on Terrorism", Interreligious
and International Federation for World Peace, 4 April 2002
http://www.iifwp.org/Religion/War_on_Terrorism.shtml
(ii-d) Dave Grossman's "Killology" web-site:
http://www.killology.com/sitemap.htm
Wk. 5: 9 Feb: *"Peace Service as It Relates to Peace Studies" -- Harry Yeide, Professor of Religion, The George Washington University
"Three Organizations Work To Show That Peace Is The Way". Global Peace Services USA Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 1 March 2002. [http://www.globalpeaceservices.org/Newslet14.pdf] [http://www.GlobalPeaceServices.org]
9 Feb: "Iraq's Future National Security Strategy", presented by The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, 10:30 - 11:30, CSIS B-1B Conference Center, 1800 K Street, NW. "A discussion by THE HONORABLE WALTER B. SLOCOMBE, Caplin & Drysdale, Coalition Provisional Authority Advisor for National Security & Defense (May-Nov 2003), U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1994-2000).
9
Feb: "European
Security Strategy: Is it For Real?", Security for a New Century, 108th
Congress presents....., 2255 Rayburn House Office Building, 2:30 p.m. Tomas
Valasek is the Director of the Brussels office of Center for Defense Information
(CDI), a Washington, DC-based independent research organization monitoring
U.S. military and world security
issues.
10 Feb: "Planning for Peace in Sudan", presented by The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., B1-A Conference Center, CSIS, 1800 K Street, NW.
The Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at CSIS has crafted an action strategy outlining challenges and recommendations for a post-conflict Sudan, which were recently published in "To Guarantee the Peace: An Action Strategy for a Post-Conflict Sudan" [http://csis.org/press/pr04_05.pdf]
11 Feb: Film Screening: "Crucible of War". Wednesday, February 11 2004, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm. "A documentary about how people attempt to recover from senseless violence in the Balkans." Discussion with Leon Gerskovic, Director and Erica Ginsberg, Producer will follow the screening. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
11 Feb: "Afghan Women in the New Constitution". February 11, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Masuda Sultan, Program Director, Women for Afghan Woman. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
11 Feb: Wednesday. Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Location: MC 301. "Young, Gifted and Black Activists in the 1960s." Lawrence Guyot.
12 Feb: Thursday. "The Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Peace-Building Update", With: Ambassador William Swing, Special Representative of UN Secretary-General to the DRC. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium, 12:30-1:45pm. (This event will also be webcast, live at www.wilsoncenter.org.). Ronald Reagan Building: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.
Wk. 6: 16 Feb: President's Day (No classes)
19 Feb: "The Role of the University in International Affairs". Thursday, February 19 2004, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. This UNA-NCA event will feature Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President of George Washington University and Professor Robert Pastor, Vice President of International Affairs, American University. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
Wk. 7: 23 Feb: *"Citizen-Student-Soldier: A conversation with military officers in graduate programs at George Washington University" -- an open discussion of topics in the ethics of war, with those in our university community who choose to participate in war.
Hooker, Richard D., Jr. “Soldiers of the State: Reconsidering American
Civil-Military Relations.”
Winter 2003-04. pp. 4-18. [http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/03winter/hooker.htm]
See also:
(i) Langston, Thomas, "The Civilian Side of Military Culture", Parameters,
Autumn
2000 http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/00autumn/langston.htm
(ii) Hittinger, John, "The Soldier and the Citizen: Lessons from Plato
and Aristotle", JSCOPE 95 (XVII) http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE95/Hittinger95.html
(iii) Burk, James, "The Military Obligation of Citizens Since Vietnam",
Parameters,
Summer 2001 http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/01summer/burk.htm
(iv) Davenport, Manuel, "Moral Restrictions on the Conduct of War", JSCOPE
2000
(XXII). http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Davenport00.html
(v) Toner, James, "Mistakes in Teaching Ethics", Air Power Journal -
Air Power Chronicles, Sum 1998 http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj98/sum98/toner.html
(vi) Kellogg, Davida, "The Tragedy of Kelly Flinn", JSCOPE 98 (XX)
http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE98/Kellogg98.html
(vii) Butler, Remo, "Why Black Officers Fail", Parameters, Autumn
1999
http://carlisl-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/99autumn/butler.htm
(viii) Johnson, Douglas and Stephen Metz, "American Civil-Military Relations:
New Issues, Enduring Problems", Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army,
1995 http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/research_pubs/amcivil.pdf
23 Feb: "New Rich, New Poor: Wealth and Morality in Ukraine". Monday, February 23 2004, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Catherine Wanner, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
24 Feb: "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001". Tuesday, February 24 2004, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Author Steve Coll, managing editor of the Washington Post, discusses the findings of his latest book on the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
25 Feb: "New Scholarship in Race and Ethnicity - "The Meanings of Citizenship: African-American Emancipation and Indian Sovereignty in the Post-Civil War United States"". Wednesday, February 25 2004, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Speaker: Barbara Krauthamer, Professor of History, New York University; commentators: Frederick Hoxie, Professor of History, University of Illinois and Jill Norgren, Professor Emerita of Government, City University of New York. Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th floor Auditorium.
25 Feb: The Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Public Meeting, "The Changing Face of U.S. Foreign Assistance Delivery", National Press Club, 529 14th St., N.W., 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045.
25 Feb: The Advisory Committee On Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA), of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Public Meeting, "The Changing Face of U.S. Foreign Assistance Delivery".
May 14, 2003 U.S. Foreign Assistance Strategy – A New Role for NGOs and USAID?, Summary Report (PDF 155KB) Full Report (PDF 1MB)
February 11, 2003 Public Diplomacy and Foreign Aid in the National Interest, Summary Report (PDF 203KB) Full Report (PDF 1.2MB). For a copy of the slide presentation given in Annex 4, "U.S. Foreign Aid Government and Private," please contact Ashley Mattison at 202.347.9211, ext. 215 or at e-mail: amattison@datexinc.com
January 10, 2001"A New Agenda for Foreign Aid" Summary Report (PDF 78.1KB), or Full Report (PDF46.7KB)
27 Feb: "Alternative Dispute Resolution in Environment, Natural Resources and Land Use Disputes", a one-day seminar jointly sponsored by The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (http://www.ecr.gov) and the Federal Bar Association (http://www.fedbar.org).
Wk. 8: 1 Mar: *When soldiers are asked to be combatants and peacekeepers and nation-builders... How should they and we determine what they should and should not do? "The Ethics of Complex Contingencies: Operation IRAQI FREEDOM" -- Lt. Col. Tony Pfaff, Foreign Area Officer, U.S. Army. Author of Peacekeeping and the Just War Tradition, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2000.
Note: A Non-attribution policy is in effect for this presentation, at
the request of the speaker, and in accordance with his regulations within
the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to this speaker and
this event, this policy calls for treating statements made as privileged
information. Agreeing to participate as a member of the audience implies
that you agree to refrain from attributing any statements to the speaker
without his explicit approval and consent. Statements, disagreement, and
other comments made by individuals or groups in an academic forum are safeguarded
through the practice of nonattribution. It is acceptable to say a "previous
speaker" made a particular statement, but the speaker's name is not to
be divulged without his explicit approval and consent. That the speaker
appears in our forum and speaks freely to us is neither tacit nor implicit
permission to attribute statements to him without his explicit approval
and consent. This policy covers unclassified as well as classified information.
As part of this policy, nothing a speaker says will be attributed to him/her
in discussion with any news media, public forum, or in any other way. Members
of the media must self-identify and either abide by the non-attribution
policy or not attend the presentation. Whereas this policy might strike
some as in conflict with academic freedom, its intent is just the opposite.
It is intended to allow the forum to produce an open flow of ideas;
via this policy the participants of the forum are encouraged to speak freely
and ask hard questions, to give their honest input and concerns, even discussing
weaknesses of their
own organization, without the concern of how such direct statements
might reflect on their organization.
Pfaff, Tony, 'The Ethics of Complex Contingencies: Operation IRAQI FREEDOM", JSCOPE 2004. [http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE04/Pfaff04.html]
Pfaff, Tony, "Peacekeeping and the Just War Tradition", JSCOPE 2000. [http://www.usafa.af.mil/jscope/JSCOPE00/Pfaff/Pfaff00.html]
1-7 Mar: The Peace Corps will celebrate Peace Corps Week.
3 Mar: Nadine Strossen speaks on "Homeland Security Enforcement, Compliance and Defense: What Corporate Counsel Needs to Know".
5 Mar: Steven Lee, Hobart and William Smith College, Visiting Fellow, U.S. Naval Academy, 2003-04, speaks on "Humanitarian Intervention and Just War" at The University of Maryland's Committee on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy.
5-8 Mar: "I Will Feed Them with Justice," the 2004 Ecumenical Advocacy Days for Global Peace with Justice.
Wk. 9: 8 Mar: *How can culture help to change political and ideological structure? "Hard power--soft power: The Role of Rock Music in Tearing Down the Iron Curtain" with Andras Simonyi, Ambassador of Hungary.Monday, 6:10-7:30 p.m., in ACAD 100, on the Mt.Vernon Campus of GWU.
"ROCK AND REBEL", [From Hungarian Ambassador Andras Simonyi's speech
at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on November 8, 2003.]
ACTIVISM,
Archives of the Progressive Review.
[http://prorev.com/active.htm]
"The Artists' Network of Refuse and Resist! Artists dedicated to creating a Culture of Resistance." [http://www.artistsnetwork.org/]
"The Freemuse website", FREEMUSE: Freedom of Musical Expression. [http://www.freemuse.org/]
8 Mar: International Women's Day 2004 -- CODEPINK.
Wk. 10: 15 Mar: Spring Break (No classes)
18 Mar: "Eyewitness to Occupation: Ten Months in Baghdad", Featuring Rick McDowell and Mary Trotochaud, AFSC Iraq Country Representatives. American Friends Service Committee. Bethesda, MD. Thursday 18 March. Public Forum 7:30 PM. Bethesda Monthly Meeting. Edgemoor Lane and Beverly Road, Bethesda, MD (on the campus of Sidwell Friends Lower School). See their "Baghdad Journal" linked at [http://www.afsc.org/human-face/tour.htm]
20 Mar: "MARCH 20th: The World Still Says No to War" -- "The Global Day of Action against War and Occupation"
Wk. 11: 22 Mar: *"Homeland Security and the Prospects for Peace"-- a conversation with Frank Cilluffo, GW’s Associate Vice-President for Homeland Security, member of The National Homeland Security Advisory Council.Formerly with the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), in Wash., DC.
"Critical Infrastructure Protection: Who’s in Charge", Statement of Frank J. Cilluffo, Co-chairman, Cyber Threats Task Force, Homeland Defense Project, Center for Strategic & International Studies to the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Reform, October 4, 2001. [http://www.homelandsecurity.gwu.edu/dhs/congress/oct4_01.html]
Frank Cilluffo and Robert Kupperman, "Between War and Peace: Deterrence and Leverage". This article originally appeared in the Winter/Spring 1997 edition of The Brown Journal of World Affairs. [http://homelandsecurity.gwu.edu/dhs/pubs/cilluffo_warpeace97.html]
23 Mar: "Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) Event Enforcing Indegenous Peoples' Rights to Territory, Culture and Life in the Inter-American Human Rights System". [http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/news/calendar/200403.html]
23 Mar: USIP Institute Roundtable: "Islam in Middle Eastern Textbooks: Nation-Building, Identity, and the Question of Reform". Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2004. Time: 9:30–11:30 AM. Location: U.S. Institute of Peace, 1200 17th St., NW, Washington, D.C. [http://www.usip.org/events/2004/0323_wkseducation.html]
25 Mar: "Orthodoxy and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy in Russia". Thursday, March 25 2004, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. James Billington, Librarian of Congress and former Director, Woodrow Wilson Center. [http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.welcome]
Wk. 12: 29 Mar: *"N.F.S. Grundtvig and the Danish Folkhighschool Movement" -- Clay Warren, Chauncey M. Depew Professor of Communication, Chair, The George Washington University
"Carrying on Despite the Violent Twentieth Century: A Tenacious
History of People’s Education" by Chris Spicer, 2000.
[http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/book/roots/spicer.htm]
[mailto:cspicer@admin.umass.edu]
[http://www.peopleseducation.org]
Wk. 13: 5 Apr: *TBA
5 Apr: "Containment, Reagan, and the Collapse
of Communism". Monday, April 05 2004, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Sheldon Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of History, Oxford,
OH, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-term Scholar, Kennan Institute.
[http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.welcome]
7 Apr: "Can We Keep the Poor Warm in Transitioning States? Problems of Social Protection in Eastern Europe". Wednesday, April 07 2004, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm. Michael Cain, Associate Professor of Political Science, St. Mary's College of Maryland. [http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.welcome]
7 Apr: World Health Day 2004 of the World Health Organization (WHO) -- the theme is Road Safety.
Wk. 14: 12 Apr: *TBA
Wk. 15: 19 Apr: *TBA
23-24 Apr: IMF / World Bank Annual Meeting & Protest. Washington, DC. Protest of "US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)".
23-24 Apr: "Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Restorative Justice". Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA. Pendle Hill Peace Network. [http://forum.phpeace.net/conference.php] [http://www.phpeace.net/publications/]
24 Apr: First Annual World Healing Day.
Wk. 16: 26 Apr: *TBA
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