TABLE OF CONTENTS

• EMPLOYMENT
  • June 4:  Applications must be postmarked for "Associate Outreach Specialist" Sought by IWA
  • June 30:  Applications must be postmarked for "Associate Outreach Specialist" Sought by CIE
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • May 25:  Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust
  • May 31:  Applications due for Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference
  • 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
  • June 1:  Applications due for Faculty Travel Grants
  • September 15:  Proposals due for Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
  • World Bank: Anticorruption
  • How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law
  • NOVA: World in the Balance
  • National Museum of African Art

"Associate Outreach Specialist" Sought by IWA
The Center for International Education seeks a full-time (100% FTE) Associate Outreach Specialist to coordinate a variety of activities relating to the public outreach programs and events sponsored by the Institute of World Affairs.

For more information on this internal recruitment, please see the CIE web site:  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/
To download the emplyment announcement.

For more information on this recruitiment, please see the CIE web site:  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/
To download the employment announcement.

This event -- which is free and open to the public -- will be held at 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.  tomorrow, 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.

Resistance to globalization has led its defenders to speak of globalization with a human face. Is this a genuine effort to resolve the inequalities and injustices that have accompanied the globalization phenomenon, or an effort to deflect criticism and protest? What would it really take to globalize not only markets, but peace, justice and human rights?

We invite proposals for paper presentations, organized panels, roundtable discussions, workshops, and other creative contributions on these and related questions, and on pedagogical innovations designed to tackle these issues in K-12 and in university classrooms. In addition, we welcome other contributions consistent with our mission statement (See http://www.peacejusticestudies.org). These themes would include social justice and social change, peace movements and social movements, nonviolence, peace studies and peace education, conflict resolution and transformation, human rights, feminism and anti-racism, global capitalism and resistance to "globalization from above," critical pedagogy, popular education and diversity and multiculturalism.

Please send an abstract (no more than 200 words) to Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY 10471 or pjsa2004@manhattan.edu (please put your last name in the Subject line of your message). A brief biographical sketch would also be helpful.

The deadline for proposal submission is May 31, 2004.  Late proposals will be reviewed and accepted subject to space on the program.

You will be notified about the status of your proposal by July 15.

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

OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
    http://www.nea.fr/
Based in Paris, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) is a specialized agency within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) whose mission is to assist its member countries in "maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes." At the site, visitors can download various policy papers, obtain basic facts about nuclear power and development in the member countries, and read the latest press releases from the NEA. The homepage also serves as a basic introduction to the current activities of the organization, such as the upcoming International Youth Nuclear Congress, its work on nuclear legislation in Eastern Europe, and its latest reports on such timely topics as the regulatory control of radioactive waste management. Visitors may also opt to sign up to receive the latest publications and newsletters from the NEA electronically on this site.

World Bank: Anticorruption
    http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/index.cfm
In its many different guises, corruption around the world tends to affect the poor, who are often the most reliant on the provision of public services, and are also least likely to be able to pay the extra costs associated with bribery and fraud. The World Bank has identified corruption as "the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development," and thusly has set up this anticorruption website to serve as an online resource for policy-makers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other interested parties. On the site, the World Bank lays out its strategy for combating corruption, which includes increasing political accountability, strengthening civil society participation, and improving public sector management. The site also contains a number of helpful resources, such as toolkits for assessing government performance in this area, and information and reports on various regional and country-based approaches to dealing with corruption. The site is rounded out by a calendar of events and key strategy documents, such as "Reforming Public Institutions and Strengthening Governance, A World Bank Strategy."

How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law
    http://www.law.uchicago.edu/academics/publiclaw/resources/62-Jinks.pdf
Authored by Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks, this working paper from the University of Chicago’s Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper series was published first in March 2004, and is due to appear later this year in the Duke Law Journal. In its 57-pages, the paper deals with the ways in which states might effectively change their human rights regime based on various processes of socialization where so-called "bad actors" might be persuaded to incorporate globally legitimated models of state behavior and, on the other side of the coin, how "good actors" might also be persuaded to act better. The paper begins by discussing three mechanisms of social influence, namely coercion, persuasion, and acculturation, then continues on to discuss the nature of conditional membership, the precision of obligations, and concludes with a section on implementation.

NOVA: World in the Balance
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
Taking as its focus the deceptively simple questions, How has the world’s population changed over time? and How will it change in the future?, this engaging website (designed as a companion to the television program) developed by NOVA explores both of these queries through a set of interviews, interactive features, and additional resources, such as weblinks and guides for teachers. The interviews are enlightening, and feature transcripts of conversations with Ding Yihui on climate change in China, Geeta Rao Gupta on the status of women in India, and Lester Brown on population growth. The section on population control campaigns and family planning are particular nice, as they profile, through brief essays and posters, the attempts of India, China, and Kenya to promote these policies. As mentioned, the interactive features are very well-though out, and allow visitors to examine the growth of the human population from the year zero to 2050 and to take a quiz on population trends and environmental challenges.

Insights: National Museum of African Art
    http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/insights/index2.html
Drawing on its extensive collections, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. has created this online exhibit to showcase the work of nine contemporary artists. This ensemble approach essentially reveals the nuances of the artistic process to visitors, and demonstrates the interplay of experimentation, continuity and change in each artist's subjects and materials. The artists here represent just a fragment of Africa's many cultural traditions, but their range of media is quite diverse, including film, fabrics, oils, and various sculpting materials. One artist whose work visitors will want to take a look at on the site is Iba N'Diaye, a Senegalese painter whose love of jazz informs much of his work, especially paintings such as Hommage á Bessie Smith. Another such artist is the late Ezrom Legae, a South African sculptor and draughtsman who used his art to offer visual commentaries on the system of apartheid that was used to dominate blacks throughout his country until the 1990s.