Global Studies Summer Institute Examines 'World Disorder'

MILWAUKEE - The Global Studies Summer Institute (GSSI) is an annual four-day program intended to provide K-16 educators with an opportunity to learn about and discuss contemporary international issues and their practical applications for the classroom.

This summer's Institute, entitled "Understanding the New World Disorder: Exploring Global Security Issues in the Classroom," will examine issues related to the changing conceptions of security, and many issues related to understanding what contributes to security or insecurity in our world. Issues that will be addressed by speakers and participants include the relationship between globalization and human security, security and the nation-state, and the connections between global security and issues including human rights, health, information, the environment, human development, and the media among others.

Highlights of the 2002 GSSI will include: live videoconferences with the World Health Organization in Geneva and UN Headquarters in New York; a videoconference featuring Tom Gjelten, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for National Public Radio; a presentation by Col. Randall Larsen of the Institute of Homeland Security at ANSER; and a videoconference featuring Lenny Foner, an expert on information security from MIT, and Catherine Lotrionte, Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

GSSI sessions are closed to the public. However, space may be available for interested individuals at some program sessions.

Contact Alex Dye at 414-229-4344 oradye@uwm.edu for more information, or visit the GSSI web site at www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/gssi.html.

The Global Studies Summer Institute is organized annually by the UWM Center for International Education. Co-sponsors of the 2002 GSSI include the International Studies Resource Network, the Institute of World Affairs, the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Milwaukee Public Schools, the UW Center for South Asia, the Friends of International Education, the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Amnesty International USA, and the United Nations Office of Public Information.

Special thanks to the Annette J. Roberts and Joan R. Robertson Fund for World Peace, World Law, and Peace Education for their generous support.

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