TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • International Studies Journal
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Upcoming Shows: International Focus
  • May 15:  Applications due for Salzburg Summer Law School Program
  • May 27:  Applications due for the Fulbright Teacher Exchange in Uruguay
  • June 1:  Proposals due for Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability
  • June 1:  Proposals due for Second International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
  • June 1:  Proposals due for 47th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association
  • June 1:  Deadline for GSA Conference Submission
  • June 1:  Applications due for "From Reaction to Prevention: Civil Society Forging Partnerships to Prevent Violent Conflict and Build Peace"
  • June 1:  Submissions due for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law
  • June 1:  Proposals due for WIPCS Conference
  • June 16-17:  Incommunicado Work Conference (ICT4D)
  • July 26-28:  IAMCR Conference:  “Media Panics"
  • August:  Call for Submissions -- Gender and the State Reform in Latin American and the Caribbean
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • United Nations Development Programme: Tsunami Recovery
  • Ethnomathematics Digital Library
  • Canadian Geographic Atlas Online
  • National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth
  • United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • Combating Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and Yemen
  • World Bank Institute
  • IPI Global Journalist

International Studies Journal
Issue 4 of International Studies Journal has just been published. ISJ is run by a private group of professors, in and outside of Iran. The Board of Editors is composed of notable scholars in the fields of international law, human rights, good governance and international relations including: Dr. Mehdi Zakerian, Professor Davood Hermidass Bavand, Judge Ahmed Seif el Dawla, Pr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Pr. Chreif Bassiouni, Dr. Mahmood Monishipouri, Dr. Ineke Boerefijn, Dr. Dietrich Jung, Professor Alexander Knoops, Dr. Ramesh Thakur, Dr. Simon Peterman, Professor Reynald Ottenhoff, Professor Amr Shalakany, etc.

This contents of the current issue:

• Articles
  • The Women’s Convention / Dr. Ineke Boerefijn
  • Vers une définition mondiale du terrorisme international / Dr. Mehdi Zakerian
  • Third World Avoidable Crisis: Mismanaging National Legitimate Grievances / Dr. Houchang Hassan-Yari
  • The Generations of Human Rights / Raha Lucienne Zohadi
  • Iran’s War Reparations / Dr. Davood Hermidas Bavand (in Persian)
  • An Introduction to Recognition of World Order, Cold War, New World Order with an Emphasize on Middle East Events / Bijan Assadi (in Persian)
  • Human Rights, a Tool for Policy-Making in Europe / Ali Rahmani (in Persian)
  • The Gravity of Globalization Impact on Policy-Driven Regionalism across North-South Divide / Massoud Aryainia (in Persian)
• Book Reviews
  • Falk, Human Rights Horizons reviewed by Dr. Mahmood Monshipouri
  • Monshipouri, Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization reviewed by Dr. Mehdi Zakerian

• May 15 - "Egypt"
  • UWM Professors Mohammed Aman, Abbas Hamdani
• May 22 - "World Affairs Roundup"
  • Panel of local foreign policy experts

The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, an annual course under the academic supervision of Professor Otto Triffterer, editor of the Commentary on the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, invites advanced law students as well as young professionals to apply for its Seventh Summer Session.
 

This year's course on First Decisions of the Security Council and the Organs of the International Criminal Court - Shaping and Paving the Roads towards "Peace, Security and the Well-being of the World"? will focus on three major areas. First: The situations currently under scrutiny by the Office of the Prosecution (OTP). Since the formal establishment of the ICC on 1 July 2002, the Prosecutor has received more than 100 communications on possible investigations. Three States Parties to the Rome Statute (the Republic of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic) have referred a situation to the OTP according to article 13 litera (a) Rome Statute. All three situation have been assigned to Pre-Trial Chambers, the Prosecutor has opened two formal investigations on the Republic of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, whereas the Pre-Trial Chamber has already held a Status Conference for the latter. The budgetary needs to open a third investigation have been granted by the Third Assembly of States in September 2004. Only recently by Resolution 1593 (2005) the Security Council referred the situation of Darfur (Sudan) to the OTP. The SLS will deal with all these situations, provide background information on the conflict situations, analyze their political and legal dimensions, their substantive and procedural basis but will also discuss future ways to proceed within the framework of the Rome Statute. Second: The Seventh Session of SLS will draw upon the various ways to enforce international criminal law, not only through national and international courts, but in particular through hybrid and mixed courts and tribunals (such as e.g. the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the special mixed Panels for East Timor, or the new Special Tribunal for Cambodia), as well as through Truth and Conciliation Commissions. Taking into account the growing number of such enforcement organs we will emphasise on the question of concurrent jurisdictions, with a special view to the Complementarity Regime of the Rome Statute. Third: This year's course will concentrate on the interrelation of international judiciary organs, in particular the ICC, with the system of the United Nations. Possible conflicts of competence with the Security Council do not only still need to be solved with regard to the conditions under which the Court can exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. Also the recent Security Council Resolution 1593 (2005) raises fundamental questions with regard to existing international criminal law and regulations of the Rome Statute. Next to these areas of focus the Seventh Session of SLS will cover latest developments of the jurisdiction of the ad-hoc Tribunals, the position of the United States with regard to the ICC, the so called "war on terror" and the question of detention in Guantanamo as well as torture and other inhumane and degrading treatment in Abu Ghraib, but also in many States of the EU during the basic training time of "draftees". The academic program runs Monday 8 through Thursday 18 August, daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a free week-end. The course consists of lectures, work shops and case studies and will be held at the University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law, a 16th- century- Baroque- style palace located in the centre of the old town. In addition, the Salzburg Law School provides for in-depth working materials, full board accommodation and a rousing social programme for a reasonable price! Participants will obtain a certificate of attendance, but may also take an oral or written exam for which 8 credits according to the European Credit Transfer System are available.

To apply, send a letter of motivation, your CV and relevant application documents until May 15, 2005.

For further information please visit our homepage at  http://www.sbg.ac.at/salzburglawschool  or contact astrid.reisinger@sbg.ac.at

The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program is currently seeking teachers or administrators with general proficiency in Spanish and strong cross-cultural skills to act as teacher trainers and make presentations on general education topics in Uruguay for six weeks in Summer 2005.  Priority will be given to applicants who have previously hosted Uruguayan principals or teachers through the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program.

For more information:  http://www.outreachworld.org/activity.asp?eventid=203

This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.

As well as impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.

The deadline for the next round call-for-papers: June 1, 2005. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.SustainabilityConference.com

Following the success of the inaugural International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of California - Berkeley, a second conference will be held in one of the emerging IT centers of the world, Hyderabad.

The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

As well as an impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.

The deadline for the first round call for papers is June 1, 2005. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.Technology-Conference.com

"The North-South Divide and International Studies"

In the second half of the twentieth century, a good proportion of international relations was colored significantly by the East-West cleavage. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective allies, generated  structural influences that were all-pervasive.  Many, if not all, of these influences have now dissipated. Yet there is a good chance that the first half of the twenty-first century will be equally shaped by a North-South cleavage. The gap between North and South is hardly new but it is likely to become more prominent as intra-Northern disputes wane.  Many of the processes of current interest to members of ISA - globalization, democratization, nuclear democratic peace, nuclear proliferation, the ascent of China, and terrorism, to name a few - all have strong links to the differential resources, opportunities, and challenges confronted by more affluent and lesser developed parts of the world.

Is the North-South gap receding or becoming more entrenched? What does it take to move from the South to the North? Are parts of the South descending into reinforcing traps of poverty, civil war, and state failures? To what extent is North-South conflict manifested in non-state terrorism?  Is the North likely to become increasingly preemptive in its attacks on perceived Southern threats? If so, how is the South likely to fight back? Do North-South antagonisms reflect in some way the celebrated clash of civilizations thesis? Or, are we simply exaggerating the extent to which a new structural cleavage will predominate in coming years and/or how we might best interpret it? These are only some of the questions that are likely to dominate international relations discourse in the decades to come. We invite ISA members to tackle these questions, and others like them, for the San Diego meeting - a particularly propitious site given its location quite close to the U.S.-Mexican border for a consideration of the prospects for North-South conflict and cooperation.

Paper and panel submissions will be accepted beginning on March 21 and are due by June 1, 2005. Acceptance letters and notifications for those who submitted proposals will sent by e-mail from ISA on September 30, 2005. Proposals may be submitted online using the following links:

Paper submission:
http://www.isanet.org/SanDiegoSubmit/PaperSubmit.htm

Panel submission:
http://www.isanet.org/SanDiegoSubmit/PanelSubmit.htm

For more information on the 2006 Annual Convention please see http://www.isanet.org/sandiego/ or e-mail isa2006@indiana.edu.

The abstract deadline is June 1, 2005.

For complete details, please see the GSA web site:  http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/Events/Conference%202005/conference2005.htm

The conference will be held at the United Nations in New York from July 19- 21.  Please visit the CASIN website to apply: http://www.americanstudents.us/crimeapp.shtml

The application deadline is June 1, 2005.  Details about the conference can be found in the application and on the UN website:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/prev_dip/fr_preventive_action.htm.

The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law invites high quality papers and book review submissions that examine timely issues in international human rights law. The journal seeks to advance the understanding of human rights and analyze their impact on international law and policy. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law encourages academics, students and related professionals of all nationalities to submit their original work. We aim to be a resource for scholars and professionals devoted to the practice and study of international human rights law.

Submissions should be between fifteen and forty pages each and should be sent electronically to arthur@americanstudents.us by June 1, 2005.  Please include the word "Submission" in the subject line of the e-mail.

Questions and correspondence should be sent to the same email address.

About CASIN
The Council for American Students in International Negotiations, Inc., (CASIN) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that promotes scholarship, discourse and engagement in international policy.

CASIN seeks to deepen the United States' commitment to its international leadership role and encourages student participation in the international policy-making process.

Arthur Traldi
Editor-in-Chief, Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law  arthur@americanstudents.us The Council for American Students in International Negotiations http://www.americanstudents.us

This conference is sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and by Marian College and its Social Justice Committee.

Dr. John Davies is currently Co-Director of the Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding Projects, and Senior Faculty Associate with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), Department of Government and Politics, at the University of Maryland.

Incommunicado http://www.incommunicado.info is a two-day workshop that intends to approach the growing 'ICT for development' (ICT4D) sector and its conceptual and organizational idioms from a committed yet- critical 'insider' perspective.

The Incommunicado gathering wants to explore discourses, concepts and strategies. It offers neither an esoteric, self-referential 'critique fest' nor a mere exhibition of best-of-ICT4Dprojects. Instead, it aims to create a space to allow those active mainly in the field of ICT4D to come together with people from other areas of media activism and criticism.  To facilitate such encounter and exchange, the Incom event will not follow the standard academic conference format but organize an open workshop to encourage cooperative work and informal networking.

The call outlines five (overlapping) topic areas, and an editorial collective will ensure that current information on all topics as well as moderators and focused presentations are available. A pre-conference publication will bundle perspectives considered most relevant by participants and made available online. The conference location itself supports open exchange and networking and can accommodate self-organizing groups anywhere between 15 and 200 people.

Pre-conference cooperation via the conference wiki or the incommunicado mailing-list is encouraged.  With this conference the Waag-Sarai exchange platform also intends to intensify Euro-Asian dialogues.

The event is part of the activities of the Incommunicado network, a research list and weblog that focus on the reappropriation of ICT across the 'Global South'. The idea of being (held) incommunicado - to be in a liminal state vis-a-vis multiple regimes of information as well as human rights - serves as point of departure for analyses, critiques, and projects beyond the standard agenda of ICT-for-Development.

For more information:  http://www.incommunicado.info

For more information on this International Association of Media and Communication Research Conference, please see: http://iamcr2005.shu.edu.tw/basic_info.htm

Certain events, from time to time, shock the world: sometimes into action; sometimes into paralysis. Often, it seems, it is because of the way they are featured in the media. Generally, they are 'bad news' - disaster and conflict. Recall the Chicken Flu sacre in Asia, the SARS epidemic, various terrorist atrocities, the 911 attacks in the USA. Even Janet Jackson's exposure of herself. Twenty five years after observers of the 'active audience' challenged effects theory, the media and their messages seem to reassert their power. And some governments seek to strengthen their controls, whatever the cost to democracy.

Media panics have themselves became the focus of media attention, as well as of scholarly interest. The 2005 IAMCR conference will focus on the topic "Media Panics: Freedom, Control and Democracy in the Age of Globalisation."

At least two theoretical perspectives apply. One is that exaggerated media reports of disasters and violence are either things to be corrected and controlled or as reflective of the culture of our time. Any attempt to curb them is an infringement on our freedom. The other involves the age-old debates that pit social and psychological effects of media against their mass market orientations. How and why have media panics come to be the major concerns of our societies? How do people in different worlds and circumstances respond to this communication phenomenon?

The use of new technology in communication, the process of news production, the content of media coverage from opposing perspectives, and the influence of these events on different audiences and national are some examples. Furthermore, regulation/deregulation of the global media, empowerment of audience in the development of media literacy, as well as meanings of the global and local interactions in this "panic" context are all critical issues to be examined.

This issue seeks to provide a forum for studies dealing with the relationships between the first and second generation of state reforms and the cultural, economic, and social situation of women. We welcome papers on gender differences in the civil service, cultural stereotypes of bureaucracy, and women as the clients of changing public services and structures.
Also, we strongly encourage discussions into new terrains such as the interactions between gender and the privatization of public utilities, as well as women's collective action and their incidence on those public policies geared towards state innovation and change.

Papers can be submitted in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. If accepted, the author will have to provide a Spanish version of the article. The review panel is composed of international scholars from institutions in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S.

The deadline for submission is August of 2005. The expected publication date is March of 2006.

All papers should be sent electronically to:

revistapoliticaygestion@unsam.edu.ar
Attn. Ana L. Rodríguez-Gustá, Guest Editor.

United Nations Development Programme: Tsunami Recovery
    http://www.undp.org/tsunami/
While the tsunami that devastated a substantial portion of South and South East Asia at the end of December 2004 may have fallen off the radar of the mainstream media, there remains a great deal of reconstruction work going on in the region. The United Nations Development Programme continues to assist with efforts throughout the area, and this website the organization has set up provides information about such endeavors. Visitors to the site can peruse the latest news reports and updates by country (such as Somalia, Sri Lanka, and India) or begin by looking at the regional overview section of the site. The site also contains a link to the full coverage area offered by the Crisis Prevention & Recovery unit, which contains recent assessment reports by country.

Ethnomathematics Digital Library
    http://www.ethnomath.org/index.asp
The Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL) is "a resource network and interactive learning community for ethnomathematics, with emphasis on the indigenous mathematics of the Pacific region." The collaborative project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and overseen by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL). Based on the premise that "mathematical ideas are mental constructs created by individuals and groups in response to cultural activities" (such as navigation, building, and trade) the group identifies, reviews, seeks copyright clearance, digitizes, indexes, and archives ethnomathematics materials that they consider high quality. There are about 700 items in this growing collection, which visitors may search by keyword or browse by subject, geographical area, or cultural group.

Canadian Geographic Atlas Online
    http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/intro.aspx?lang=En#
Online atlases vary widely in quality, but this latest project from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society is a laudable production both in terms of its organization and also its multi-layered content. This highly interactive atlas allows users to explore all of Canada's landforms and boundaries through a pop-up atlas browser that includes a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, interface tool by which users can zoom in or out, measure distances, and even print out the maps they create. Some of the additional features let users explore the country thematically by region (such as the Boreal Shield) or by the dynamic theme of "Extremes of Weather". There is even a "Kid's Atlas", which is specifically designed for young people with the hope that they will also learn a great deal about Canadian places and geography. Much of the material on the site is also available in French.

National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth
    http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/index_flash.html
Teaming up with PBS, National Geographic has created an intriguing four-part documentary series titled "Strange Days on Planet Earth" that is meant to explore a number of events and processes (such as climatic change and invasive species) and their long- and short-term effects across the planet. Hosted by actor Edward Norton, the series producer's have also created this complementary website where interested parties can learn more about these processes. For example, in the "One Degree Factor" section (which explores global climatic change), users can read interviews with experts working in this field and also learn about the relevance of this process to their own lives. The site also contains a nice glossary of terms and a place where individuals can offer their own comments on the program.

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
    http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/index.html
During the 20th century, there has been a concerted effort by a number of transnational organizations and advocacy groups to effectively lobby for the rights and protection of indigenous groups in all parts of the world. In 2000, the United Nations Economic and Social Council established the Permanent Form on Indigenous Issues to effectively address the needs of the 370 million indigenous peoples around the world. On the site, visitors can read official documents and proceedings created by the Forum's work, peruse a photo gallery of indigenous peoples, and read the text of various speeches on indigenous issues. Finally, visitors will also want to peruse the list of upcoming events sponsored by the Forum and also review its latest press releases.

Combating Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and Yemen
    http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIA_content/documents/Yemen%20Report%20BCSIA.pdf
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has a number of thematic areas of research, ranging from work on international security to work on the intersection between science, technology, and public policy. This particular paper comes from the Center's program on intrastate conflict, and is authored by Deborah L. West. The 38-page paper comes out of discussions held at a conference on governance and policy in Yemen and the Horn of Africa in November 2004. Within its pages, the paper offers some expert recommendations for combating terrorism in these two regions and also includes an overview of the current state of affairs and potential terrorist activity in the area.

World Bank Institute
    http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/WBI/0,,pagePK:208996~theSitePK:213799,00.html
The World Bank has a number of specialized units designed to perform research in order to allow the organization to make informed policy decisions throughout the world. This website happens to provide information on the World Bank Institute, which effectively serves as the capacity development arm of the Bank and also "helps countries share and apply global and local knowledge to meet development challenges". On the Institute's site, visitors can find out about its various programs, which include work on preventing HIV/AIDS risk in the Balkans and scholarships designed to promote knowledge sharing and capacity building in the developing world. Visitors will want to pay close attention to the Publications area, as they may view or download working papers from a wide range of topics, including energy policy, labor force development, and development economics.

IPI Global Journalist
    http://www.globaljournalist.org/index.html
The University of Missouri's School of Journalism is one of the most respected journalism schools in the United States, so it comes as no surprise to know that it sponsors the International Press Institute's (IPI) Global Journalist magazine. The publication comes out quarterly, and on this site visitors can read the latest edition, or browse issues from 1999 to the present day. Each issues contains feature articles, a calendar of events, letters to the editor, and reports from the IPI. Some of the articles from the most recent issue include coverage of the Chinese media, the variety of coverage in Moldovan newsrooms, and other topics. The site also includes archived editions of the Institute's thoughtful radio program, "Global Journalist Radio". Here, visitors can listen to mediated discussion on topics such as nuclear proliferation, democracy in Central Asia, and the Iraqi elections.