TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • 2004 FLAS Fellowship Recipients Announced by CLACS
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Until May 21:  "Becoming Kantepec" Exhibit
  • May 14:  Final Application Deadline for INCORE International Summer School 2004
  • May 14:  Japan Culture Day
  • May 14:  Applications due for Summer "Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law"
  • May 25:  Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
  • June 1:  Applications due for Faculty Travel Grants
  • June 1:  Final day of discounted registration for IGS Best Practices Conference
  • June 11:  Registration due for 2004 Global Studies Summer Institute
  • June 17:  Fulbright Faculty Workshop at Alverno
  • Apply now for 2004 Summer Peacebuilding & Development Institute
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • September 15:  Proposals due for Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • The Global Campaign on Urban Governance
  • Center for International Development at Harvard University
  • Ireland's National Development Plan
  • Frontline: The Invasion of Iraq
  • Digital Earth: GeoWeb
  • Women's Rights and Democracy in the Arab World
  • US and Brazil : Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

2004 FLAS Fellowship Recipients
UWM's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) offers Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for UWM students pursuing a Latin American/Caribbean area studies specialization in their graduate program. The fellowship promotes training in less commonly taught languages through participation in programs of intensive foreign language instruction offered in the U.S. or abroad. These portable fellowships include tuition and a $2,400 stipend for study in an approved intensive language program.

CLACS is pleased to announce the Summer 2004 FLAS recipients:

• Lindsay K. Butler (M.A. candidate, Linguistics) will study introductory Yucatec Maya through the Duke-UNC program (June 7 - July 17) which includes two weeks of intensive classroom instruction at UNC-Chapel Hill and concludes with a four-week field orientation in Yucatán, Mexico.
   
• Ronald J. Gest (M.A. candidate, MAFLL/French and Spanish) will study advanced Portuguese at the Instituto Brasil Estados Unidos (IBEU) in Rio de Janeiro (June 26 - August 7) through the summer exchange program sponsored by the University of Florida/Florida International University.

The young artists use the paintings to express their own visual interpretations of traditional Mayan-Chontal beliefs and customs.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's cultures and communities artist in-residence, Raoul Deal, participated in workshops in Mexico, which taught the youth how to paint.  The workshops used the legend of "Kantepec", a mythical figure who shared his teachings with locals—encouraging them to live in harmony with nature.  In the 1980s when the forest neighboring the community was cut down, Kantepec—who was thought to live in and protect the forest—became the theme of many of the paintings. Many of these original students now serve as a source of knowledge and inspiration to others who want to learn to paint and embody the spirit of Kantepec.

Free admission.  Contributors from UW-Milwaukee to the exhibit include:

• Raoul Deal, Project Director, Department of Visual Art, Cultures & Communities Program Office
• Frank Campenni, Department of Instruction and Media Technology, producer of the television documentary Becoming Kantepec
• Enrique Figueroa, Director of the Roberto Hernandez Center
• Cultures and Communities Program
• Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
• Department of Visual Art--Peck School of the Arts
• Center for International Education

The International Summer School will be held at International Conflict Research (INCORE) in June 14-18, 2004.  The program provides an intensive week of training, networking and discussion in the field of conflict resolution. Facilitated by leading experts, the International Summer School is aimed at policy makers, practitioners, academics, the media, military and development organisations. The School provides an interactive learning environment and attempts to bridge the gap between policy, practice and research.

• The Management of Peace Processes
• Track Two Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation
• Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Peacebuilding Projects

For further information, please visit the Summer School web site:   http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/news/events/ss/ss.html

The presentations will be done in Japanese with English subtitles on the screen.   Doors will open at 11:30 AM.

We are pleased to announce that the registration period for the summer 2004 Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is now open, and we will be accepting applications through May 14, 2004.  Details of this program and course listings follow.  All of this information, as well as applications, are available on our web site at http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/hracademy

For inquiries and requests for applications, please contact us at: American University Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Prof. Claudia Martin and Prof. Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Co-Directors 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC  20016-8181 USA

Tel: (202) 274-4070
Fax: (202) 274-4198
E-mail:  hracademy@wcl.american.edu
Web:  http:///www.wcl.american.edu/humright/hracademy

This event -- which is free and open to the public -- will be held at 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. on  Tuesday, May 25, 2004 in the UWM Student Union Theater located at 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard.

For more information:  please call 414-229-3220 or visit the IWA website at   http://www.iwa.uwm.edu.

Awards will be given partially to defray University-approved travel expenses (transportation, room, board, and conference fees).

Awards will be limited to support for:

• research leading to results expected to be disseminated in scholarly papers, books, or other means
• formal participation, performance, or exhibition outside the U.S.  Participation is defined as presenting the results of research at an international professional meeting, not merely attending a conference. Appropriate documentation must be submitted.
• curriculum development
• travel to plan, develop, or strengthen exchange programs for students to earn degree credits through overseas study or internships, and for faculty to participate in research and scholarship at foreign institutions.

Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global education, the conference will highlight innovative initiatives in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

• Campus-wide strategic planning for internationalization
• General education curriculum
• Professional schools
• World languages
• International students and scholars
• Study abroad
• Faculty development
• Technology and international collaborations

• Conference Agenda:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/draft_agenda.pdf
• Registration Form:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/registration_form.pdf

Program Goals:

• Explore current areas of conflict around the world and the effect on children in our classrooms
• Examine the role of children in environments surrounded by conflict
• Provide examples of classrooms activities addressing these issues

• Attend lectures with prominent experts on conflict resolution and peace studies
• Receive an extensive collection of background, curriculum, and Internet resources
• Discuss and create lesson plans and units to integrate materials into your curriculum
• Earn graduate course credit (for a fee)
• Network with other educators interested in global issues

• Lecturing and research opportunities in 140 countries
• Which country to apply to and how to make contacts abroad
• How to prepare the Fulbright application
• How your campus can host visiting foreign Fulbright scholars

Directions/Parking:   Enter the campus through the main entrance on 43rd Street. Plenty of parking should be available in the lots immediately to your left.  Enter through the Rotunda - you can't miss it. The Conference Center is to your left as you enter the Rotunda.

A map can be found at  http://www.alverno.edu.

Faculty and administrators from two-year, four-year and graduate institutions are invited to apply. Retired and adjunct faculty frequently receive grants as well.

Traditional Fulbright awards vary from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English.

Application deadlines for 2005-2006 grants for which applications are still being sought:

• August 1, 2004 – Fulbright lecturing and research grants worldwide
• November 1, 2004 – spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for international education and academic administrators as well as for the summer German Studies Seminar

The summer 2003 Institute welcomed 106 participants from 26 countries. The participants came from varying backgrounds ranging from international agencies such as UNDP, CARE, USAID, UNHCR, oil companies, teachers, an official from a State police agency, to a representative from the American Bar Association, and small non-governmental organizations. They were joined by Master’s degree students from the International Peace & Conflict Resolution division and the International Development division within the School of International Service.The participants will also be provided with many opportunities to take full advantage of the resources, such as public, private, and governmental agencies in the fields of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and development, Washington, DC has to offer.

Three courses will be offered each week for tree weeks and participants will have to choose one class each week. The courses are:

• Week I: June 28 - July 2
  • Religion & Culture in Conflict Resolution, with Mohammed Abu -Nimer,
  • Bridging Human Rights Conflict Resolution & Development with Diana Chigas,
  • Political Negotiation in Latin America with Graciela (Gachi) Tapia
• Week II: July 5 - July 9
  • Development in Conflict: Practical Approaches to Recovery with Kimberly Maynard
  • Training for Trainers in Peacebuilding & Development with Mohammed Abu-Nimer
  • Applied Conflict Analysis and Resolution with Ronald Fisher and Brian Mandell
• Week III: July 12 - July 16
  • Gender & Peacebuilding in a Development Context with Julie Mertus,
  • Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding & Development with Claudia Liebler,
  • Arts Approaches to Peacebuilding with Babu Ayindo.

Under the Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Program, interested institutions submit proposals to invite scholars to teach one or more courses and to be in residence for a semester or an academic year.  Proposals are welcome from individual institutions, as well as from consortia of two or more institutions.  Institutions can propose to invite specific scholars or, through CIES, request that Fulbright Commissions abroad recommend scholars in the particular fields they would like to develop.  Detailed information and proposal guidelines are available on the CIES website (http://www.cies.org) under the non-U.S. scholar programs.

The program application booklet mentions that proposals should be received at CIES on or before September 15, 2004.  It also mentions that for 2005/2006 extra funds will be available under the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program to support scholars from Muslim-majority countries in the field of Islamic history, culture, and society, broadly defined.

Contact persons at CIES are:

• Karen Watts, Senior Program Officer -- kwatts@cies.iie.org
• Rimma Karlin, Senior Program Coordinator -- rkarlin@cies.iie.org
• Contact person at the Fulbright Commission in Egypt, Rania Atef, Assistant Project Specialist -- ratef@bfce.eun.eg

UN-HABITAT: The Global Campaign on Urban Governance
    http://www.unhabitat.org/campaigns/governance/
Launched in 1999 by the UN-HABITAT group, the Global Campaign on Urban Governance was designed to support the implementation of the Habitat Agenda goal of "sustainable human settlements development in an urbanizing world." Specifically, the Campaign is dedicated to increasing the capacity of local governments around the world to practice good urban governance, with specific attention paid to the excluded urban poor. The Campaign works through a number of strategies, including normative debate, advocacy, capacity-building, and developing a number of toolkits. At the website, visitors can learn about the group's various flagship products, which include the good urban governance index, national and local campaigns, and policy papers, which deal with such timely topics as urban governance in Africa. Along with these materials, visitors will want to take a look at the toolkit (available in a number of formats) titled, Tools to Support Participatory Urban Decision Making.

Center for International Development at Harvard University
    http://www.cid.harvard.edu/
Established in 1998 by the Harvard Institute for International Development and the Kennedy School of Government, the Center for International Development (CID) is Harvard's primary center for research on sustainable international development. The CID is currently headed by Professor Dani Rodrik, who provides oversight and direction for the Center. On the site, visitors can learn about upcoming international development conferences sponsored by the Center, read about the various persons working at the Center, learn about various research programs, along with reading various reports associated with each area of inquiry. The site also contains a host of links to online research data sets for persons working in the field of international development, and to the Center's working papers and special reports. Some of the more compelling working papers address the situation of sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa and the rise and fall of the Indonesian economy.

National Development Plan
    http://www.ndp.ie/
Throughout the 1990s, Ireland experienced phenomenal growth in the emerging fields of information technologies (including such sectors as website design), and was dubbed the Celtic Tiger, due to its economic success. The country envisions a strong development plan for the coming years, hence the reason for this very site. Ireland's National Development Plan involves an investment of over 52-billion euros of public, private, and EU funds over the period from 2000 to 2006, and involves significant improvements in health services, social housing, education, roads, rural development, and industry. The site itself contains a bevy of documents, such as an executive summary and a complete version of the Development Plan itself, and a project database, which details the status of the hundreds of projects which are an integral part of this ongoing process. Overall, this site will be of great interest to persons working in the field of social policy, planning, and international development schemes.

Frontline: The Invasion of Iraq
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/
While it's hard to have a thorough and well-developed perspective at times on events in the recent past, this thought-provoking online site on the recent war in Iraq is a place that brings together important analysis from a host of war correspondents, policymakers, and military leaders. The site includes transcriptions of interviews with various persons involved in the recent military conflict, a chronology of events during (and leading up to) the war, and a very good section of analysis, divided into thematic topics that include civilian casualties and one titled Is this Victory?. Of course, visitors will not want to leave the site without looking at the many fine extra features, such as a transcript of a talk with Eamonn Matthews (the program's producer), a very thorough set of materials for teachers, reaction from the press on the program, and a video excerpt.

Digital Earth: GeoWeb
    http://www.dotgeo.net/
GeoWeb is part of SRI International's DARPA-sponsored Digital Earth Project. Drawing from search engines like Yahoo Maps, MapQuest, or TerraServer, the GeoWeb is "a vision for making all geographically referenced, or georeferenced, data available over the Web." The infrastructure allows for open, global, and scalable Internet searches associated with a specific latitude/longitude location. Clients can query the GeoWeb to "discover relevant metadata and use Web-based or peer-to-peer communications to retrieve the actual data." The data can be used, for example, with Internet-connected cell phones and car navigation systems. The website describes the project goals and work on building the standards, tools, browsers, and infrastructure necessary to develop GeoWeb.

Women's Rights and Democracy in the Arab World
    http://www.ceip.org/files/pdf/CarnegiePaper42.pdf
The Carnegie Foundation for International Peace recently sponsored a series of papers that frame key issues relating to democracy promotion policies and programs in the Middle East. The fourth one in this thought-provoking series was authored by Marina Ottaway and offers a critical appraisal of the relationship between women's rights and democracy in the Arab world, and about what an outside intervenor (such as the United States) can rightly hope to accomplish in this arena. Within the report's 12 pages, Ottaway offers a brief overview of the various rights of women in the Arab world, discusses the policy impacts of including women within the democratic process, and concludes with a brief section on the prospects offered by the intervention of the United States government in this process. As Ottaway notes in her conclusion, "There is great need for the United States government not only to rethink the nexus of democracy and the promotion of women, but also to become more sensitive to the great gap that separates what U.S. officials say and what different Arab constituencies hear."

United States and Brazil : Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
    http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/brhome.html
This extremely compelling website, dedicated to examining the interactions between Brazil and the United States from the 18th century to the present, grew out of discussions between Dr. James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, and the former President of Brazil, Fernando Hernrique Cardoso. Developed under the auspices of the Global Gateway program at the Library of Congress, the site contains an impressive amount of primary source materials, including maps, rare books, prints, photographs, and manuscripts. When completed, the project will contain materials organized around four primary themes, but currently only the theme of Historical Foundations is complete. As might be expected, the site is presented in both Portuguese and English, and a powerful multifaceted search engine will help guide users to particular documents of interest. Browsing through the Historical Foundations section of the site, visitors will find a timeline (complete with accompanying visual materials), and five separate sections dedicated to exploration, the colonial period, and so on.