Peace Education

A Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association


 

          Newsletter

   February, 2002 Volume 5, No. 1

Note:  This edition includes dates and times for the Peace Education SIG and related SIG presentations at the Annual Conference, 2002 in New Orleans, April 1-5, 2002

ONLINE NEWSLETTER EDITOR:

Aline Stomfay-Stitz, University of North Florida;  astomfay@unf.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

.  A Message from Our SIG Chair,

     Blythe Hinitz

.  Update with Dates and Times for

   Peace Education SIG Sessions for  

   Conference – 2002 – New Orleans,

   April 1 – 5, 2002

.  Sessions of Interest from Related

   SIGs:  Conflict

   Resolution/Violence

   Prevention; Spirituality in

   Education; Wholistic Education;

   International Relations/Studies;

   Research in Global Child 

  Advocacy; Global Education; 

   Critical Educators  for Social

   Justice; Ecology & Environmental

   Education; Research in Social

   Studies Education.

.  Recently Published Books & Other  

  Resources. 

.  Online Resources for Peace

   Education/Peace Studies

.  “Peace Educators Struggle with

   War” – Articles in Education Week (10/24/01).

**The complete Conference Program is on the AERA website – http//www.aera.net/  However, there was still incomplete information at the time our Newsletter was published. You will have to choose the “Sponsor” screen in the opening section to access the “Research in Social Studies SIG” sessions because they appear to be omitted from listings for each day of the conference.

Welcome! As in the past year, I will attend as many conference sessions from our own as well as other related SIGs and will then write up abstracts from the papers for a future edition.

MESSAGE FROM OUR SIG CHAIR,BLYTHE HINITZ

Dear Fellow Peace Education Researchers and Colleagues,

This surely has been both a rewarding and a difficult year for those of us who teach peace.  What has become clearly evident to me during the past year, and particularly since September 11, 2001, is what a diversified group we are.  I believe our strength is in our diversity. We include peace educators and those who teach conflict resolution and mediation; members of local, national and international peace organizations; educators who work with individuals and groups ranging from infancy through tertiary education.  We have found since September the truth in the saying that there is more than one “right way” to engage in peace education.  Many of us have been called upon in ways and by groups that have never dialogued with us before.  I believe that this is good.  The more people talk with each other, discover peace-making strategies, use the creative arts as a means to foster peace and infuse peace education into everything we do, the greater change we have of supporting human rights.  We can help to stop the violence that is escalating around the world, and in our home communities, by being proactive peace educators.  This is the time when the results of our research can be used to the benefit of one person and the benefit of humankind.

I am truly looking forward to greeting many of you at our programs at the American Education Research Association’s annual conference.  It is particularly important at this time that, even if you are not coming to the conference, you let me know that you have paid your membership to the SIG for this year.  This is the first year of centralized SIG billing done by AERA headquarters.  We want to make sure that our records of the Peace Education SIG membership parallel the headquarters records.  As you are aware, the number of program slots at the annual meeting current is awarded according to SIG membership, therefore our membership records must be up-to-date.

I would like to congratulate Dr. Aline Stomfay-Stitz, the editor of this newsletter, on her nomination to the ballot for membership on the SIG Committee that governs all AERA SIGs.  The election is currently taking place.  If you are a member of other SIGs, you might want to make your SIG chair aware of Aline’s candidacy and qualifications.

In this newsletter issue, you will find the information about our SIG Business Meeting and Symposium Panel on Monday, the panel o reviewed papers on Tuesday, the roundtables (including one on 9/11/01) on Thursday, and our co-sponsored sessions.  If you attend AERA, please introduce yourself to me or to one of the SIG officers.  We want to get to know you as individuals rather than names on a list.  I would like to remind that that the election of officers for the coming year will take place at the SIG Business meeting.  Please come and exercise your right to vote.

Best wishes for a pleasant Spring Semester.

Sincerely,

BLYTHE HINITZ, Chair, Peace Education SIG

.  PEACE EDUCATION SIG SESSIONS, including Paper and Roundtable Sessions

I.                        Interactive Symposium and Business Meeting- Session 6.59

Monday, April 1, 2002-4:05 – 6:05 p.m. – Sheraton,

     Pontchartrain G, 3rd floor

Title:  The Changing Facets of Peace Education

Chair:  Blythe Hinitz, SIG Chair

Discussant:  Aline Stomfay-Stitz, Past SIG Chair

Invited Symposium Panel:  Debby Jennings, Hamilton Fish Institute; Diane Levin, Wheelock College; and Betty Reardon, Teachers College, Columbia.

A brief Business Meeting and Elections will take place, but there will be sufficient time for a group discussion with panelists and session attendees, with an emphasis on interaction. We will invite graduate students present to share their research.  A group will join together for dinner at a nearby restaurant. We are really an international gathering.  All are invited.  Please join us!

II.                        Paper Session- Session 15.54

Date:  Tuesday, April 2 – 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.-Le Meridien, Orleans, 3rd fl

(1)          Peace education theory, Ian M. Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee(founding member of the SIG, Convener of the Peace Education Commission of the International Peace Research Association)

(2)          The role of the practitioner in facilitating the handling of controversy in contested societies. Alan W. McCully,, University of Ulster, (Symposium panelist in 2000 ).

(3)          What peace means for us, what conflict means for us:  Understanding Education for Mutual Understanding in the Northern Ireland curriculum. Jean McNiff, University of Limerick.

III.                   Roundtables- Session 45.30

Date:  Thursday, April 4, 4:05 – 4:45 p.m. – Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 6th floor

(1)          Web-Based Education on Weapons of Mass Destruction – Stephen C. Sesko, Monterey Institute of International Studies

(2)          Buddhist Practice and Study:  The Significance for Peace Education. Guy B. Senese, Northern Arizona University;  Christine M. Shea; Jeff Bloom, Northern Arizona University.

(3)          Peace Education SIG:  A  Response to September 11th. Joanne M. Curran, SUNY Oneonta; Blythe Hinitz, College of New Jersey, Aline Stomfay-Stitz, Univ. of North Florida; and Edyth Wheeler, Towson University.

 Related SIG Sessions of Interest:    These will be presented in a listing arranged according to each day of the conference.

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Monday, April 1, 2002

Session 1.18 – 12:00-2:00 p.m. – Paper Session

Location:  Marriott, Studio 3, 2nd fl.

Paper:        Fostering global consciousness among pre-

service teachers.  Amy Roberts, Univ. of  

 Wyoming

Session 1.3 – 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. – Symposium – Ecological & Environmental Education SIG

Location:  Marriott, La Galerie 1, 2nd fl.

Participants: Challenge facing environmental education.  Chet A. Bowers, Univ. of Oregon;

Sustainability, health education and the ‘Test of Ought’.  Gerald Fain, Boston Univ.;

Multicultural educational pedagogy for sustainability.  Theresa Richardson, Ball State Univ.;

Supplementing traditional economics teaching in public schools with a more ecological focus,  Douglas E. Booth, Marquette Univ.; and

Education and Globalization: The link between business, schooling and the ‘Sustainability’ Question,  Robert Farrell, Florida International; George Papagiannis.           

Session 1.62 – 12:00-  2:00 p.m.

Location:  Le Meridien, Suite 801, 6th fl.

Symposium – Hamilton Fish Institute:  A Consortium for

School Violence Prevention

Participants:  Debbie Jennings, Peace Education SIG member; Lori Anderson, George Washington Univ.; Stephen A. Rollin, Florida State University; Rick Lovett, Carl Pope, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Joy Renfro, Eastern Kentucky Univ.; James Griffin, Morehouse School of Medicine; Jeffry Sprague, Univ. of Oregon; and Joan Burstyn, Peace Education SIG member,  Syracuse Univ.

Session 4.80 – 1:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Location:  LeMeridien, France 1, 3rd fl.

Forum:  Teaching for Social Justice: An open space forum on research – SIG for Critical Educators for Social Justice.

Session 6.4 – 4:05 – 5:35 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Balcony M, 3rd fl.

Paper Session – Division K

A descriptive study of leadership by Hiroshima and Nagasaki teachers in Social Studies curriculum development and delivery,  Dick Moody, Seattle University; 

The civic learning of civics teachers:  Towards an understanding of pedagogical spaces in the development of active and informed citizens,  Daniel Schugurensky & John P. Myers, Univ. of Toronto. 

Preparation of teacher candidates through required social action, Candice C. Carter, Univ. of North Florida, a Peace Education SIG member; 

Developing authentic instruction in the social studies,  Patricia Avery & Carol Freeman, Univ. of Minnesota; Dan Tanaka, Minneapolis Public Schools.

**Session 6.59 – 4:05 – 6:06-Monday

PEACE EDUCATION SIG BUSINESS MEETING & INVITED INTERACTIVE SYMPOSIUM

 Location; Sheraton, Pontchartrain G, 3rd fl.**

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2002

Session 11.45 –Tuesday,  8:15 – 10:15 a.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Grand Ballroom E, 5th fl.

Symposium – Zero Tolerance:  Results of the face-off between policies, schools, and students, sponsored by Division L.

Participants: 

Zero Tolerance, zero evidence, Russell J. Skiba, Indiana Univ.,

School policies on sexual harassment in an era of Zero Tolerance, Nan D. Stein, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women & Heather Meyer, Bridgewater College.

 Characteristics of students who are suspended from school, Gale Morrison, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara; Aggressive/Disruptive behavior and school removal in a community, Hanno Petras, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Session 11.72 – Tuesday, April 2nd – 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Location:  Le Meridien, Frontenac, 3rd floor

Business Meeting of the Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG

This is an Organizational Meeting, James Mitchell presiding as Chair.

Session 13.10 – Tuesday, 10:35 – 12:05 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Regent, 3rd fl.

Open Meeting (and Business Meeting) of AERA Social Justice Advocacy Committee.

Session 13.38 – Tuesday, 10:35 – 11:15 a.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 6th fl.

Paper Discussion- From smashing racism to managing diversity:  A critical meditation on racism and diversity training, (Paper discussion, Norma J. Smith, Union Institute Graduate School) sponsored by the Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG.

Session 13.57 – Tuesday,  10:35 – 12:05 p.m.

Location:  LeMeridien, Orleans, 3rd fl.

Symposium – Learning from children at the margins; Cross-Cultural Studies in Social Exclusion, sponsored by the SIG for Research in Global Child Advocacy.

Participants:  Valerie Polakow, Eastern Michigan Univ.; Haoua Hamza, Niagara Univ.; Kagendo Mutua, Univ. of Alabama; Janette Havasin, Kent State Univ.; Christodoula Mutakidou, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki; Evangelia Tressou, Univ. of Thessaloniki; Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State; Awilda Hamilton, Kent State Univ.; Lourdes Diaz Soto, Teachers College, Columbia.

Session 14.12 –Tuesday, 11:25-12:05p.m.

Location: Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 8th floor

Paper Discussion:  Conflict Resolution and Violence

     Prevention

Barriers to high school completion:  A young offender perspective, Smale T. Smale & Joe L. da Costa, University of Alberta; 

The impact of formal character education programs:  The required violence reports for middle schools in Pennsylvania.  Barry L. Purvis, Chambersburg Schools; Robert Wright, Widener, University. 

Conflict Resolution practice:  Eliciting student dispositional characteristics, Pamela S. Lane-Garon, California State Univ., Fresno.

** Peace Education SIG Session**

Session 15.54 – Tuesday, 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Location:  Le Meridien, Orleans, 3rd floor

Paper Session: Peace Education: Theory, Research, and Practice – Peace Education SIG

Chair:  Joanne Curran, State Univ. of New York-Oneonta

Discussant:  Edyth Wheeler, Towson University

Peace Education Theory, Ian M Harris, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

The role of the practitioner in facilitating the handling of controversy in contested societies.  Alan W. McCully, Univ. of Ulster.(Invited Symposium panelist in 2000).  

What peace means for us, what conflict means for us: Understanding Education for Mutual Understanding in the Northern Ireland curriculum, Jean McNiff, University of Limerick.

Session 19.21 – Tuesday, 4:05 – 6:05 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Studio 9, 2nd fl.

Symposium – Competing Conceptions of Democracy Education in the U.S.- Sponsored by the Research in Social Studies Education SIG

Participants:Joseph Kahne, Mills College; Joel Westheimer, New  York University; Walter Parker, Univ. of Washington; Diana Hess, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; and Carole Hahn, Emory Univ.

Note: This session can be accessed only through the “Sponsor” search process screen and not daily listings.

Session 19.53 – Tuesday, April 2 – 4:05-6:05 p.m.

International Studies-Cross-Cultural Studies theme

Sponsored by the International Studies SIG; International Relations Committee, Divisions D and L; Peace Education SIG and Research in Mathematics Education SIG

Includes five papers.

Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Session 24.26 – Wednesday, April 3 - 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.

Location:  Marriott, La Galerie 1, 2nd fl.,

Symposium – Emancipatory hope:  Creative visionary dimensions of transformative education.

 Spirituality and Education &Wholistic Education SIGs

Participants: Henry Giroux, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Shirley Steinberg, Montclair State Univ; Mary Ann O’Connor, Univ. of Michigan; Edmund O’Sullivan, OISE, Univ. of Toronto.   

Session 24.66 – Wednesday, April 3 - 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Location:  Marriott, Studio 8, 2nd fl.

Paper Session – Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention:  Evaluating programs

After school programs to help at-risk elementary students build competency skills, John Enger & Candace Lacey, Barry University. 

Peace Works: A program evaluation. Patrice LeBlanc, Nova Southeastern University & Candace Lacey, Barry University.

 An investigation into the current state, causes, and effects of Schools and Safe School policies and strategies, Peter Joong, Toronto School Board.  Impact of violence prevention training on rural middle school students:  How do these skills work outside of school? Robert Drummond, Univ. of North Florida; Heather Senterfitt, Florida Institute of Education.

Session 26.70 – Wednesday, April 3 - 10:35 – 11:15 a.m.

Location:  Sheraton, 816-828, 6th fl.

Paper discussion: Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG

Rethinking Schools:  Helping new teachers develop and maintain teaching:  Beverly Cross, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Stephanie Dawson, Milwaukee Public Schools; Linda Christensen, Portland Public Schools..

Session 28.1 – Wednesday, April 3 - 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, La Galerie 3, 2nd floor

Symposium – Sponsored by Division G.

A conceptual map of the field of Multicultural Education

Participants:  Patricia Ramsey, Mt. Holyoke College, Leslie Williams, Teachers College, Columbia.

Session 28.20 – Wednesday, April 3 – 12:25-1:05 p.m.

Location: Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 8th floor

Paper Discussion, sponsored by the Research in Social Studies Education SIG

Preparing adolescents for citizenship in a diverse democracy, Paulette P. Dilworth, Indiana University.

Session 28.32 – Wednesday, April 3 - 12: 25 – 1:05 p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 6th floor

Paper Discussion – Critical Episodes from the War on Social Studies – Ronald Evans, San Diego State University.

Session 30.12 – Wednesday, - April 3 – 1:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Bacchus, 3rd fl.

Panel discussion- Division G –

It takes a whole school:  An intervention to prevent violence as a change in an urban alternative school

Participants:  Ronnie Casella, Central Connecticut State Univ., Joan Burstyn, Deborah Davis, April Harris, Syracuse Univ.

Session 30.72 – Wednesday, April 3 -1:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Studio 5, 2nd floor

Business Meeting – Conflict Resolution and Cooperative Learning.

Session 34.11 – Wednesday, April 3 - 6:15 – 7:45 p .m.

Location:  Sheraton, Ellendale, 4th floor

Business Meeting – Critical Educators for Social Justice SIG

Session 34.18- Wednesday, April 3 - 6:15 – 6:55 p.m.

Location:  Marriott, Studio 10, 2nd floor

Business Meeting:  Spirituality and Education SIG

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2002

Session 41.26 – Thursday, April 4th – 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Bayside B, 4th floor

Panel Discussion – The social injustice of globalization and marginalization:  Influential systems and subsubsystems

Globalization and marginalization:  Lessons in the political economy,

Carol C. Yeakey, Univ. of Virginia;

Schools as markets, Judith B. Buck;

Disconnected and disenfranchised:  Global dimensions of inequitable technologies, Jeanieta W. Richardson, Hofstra Univ; Paul E. Green of California, Riverside;

The politics of meritocracy and testing in American education and its implications, Eugene L. Anderson, American Council on Education.

Session 41.35 – Thursday, April 4th – 12:25 – 1:05  p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 8th fl.

Paper Discussion – Research as advocacy:  Situating education research in a framework of advocacy

Sponsored by the Teacher as Researcher SIG

Research as advocacy, Mark Girod, Western Oregon University; Michael Paradales;  Gina Cervetti, Univ. of California, Berkeley.

Session 41.51 – Thursday, April 4th - 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Location:  Le Meridien, France III, 3rd floor

Symposium – Addressing and assessing student security when confronted by violence

Assessing student security when confronted by acts of violence, Robert C. Morris, State Univ. of West Georgia;

Addressing legal implications of school violence, Luke Cornelius, State Univ. of West Georgia.

** PEACE EDUCATION SIG 

     ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS**

Session 45.30 – Thursday, Apr.4th  - 4:05-4:45 p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 6th floor

Paper Discussion

Participants:  Web-based education on weapons of mass destruction, Stephen Sesko, Monterey Institute of International Studies; 

Buddhist Practice and Study:  The significance for peace education.  Guy Senese, Christine Shea; Jeff Bloom, Northern Arizona Univ.   

Peace Education SIG:  A response to September 11th.  Joanne Curran, SUNY-Oneonta, Blythe Hinitz, College of New Jersey, Edyth Wheeler, Towson University, Aline Stomfay-Stitz, Univ. of North Florida.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2002

Session 50.17 – Friday, April 5th – 8:15 – 10:15 a.m.

Location:  Marriott, Studio 5, 2nd floor.

Paper Session – Administering social justice?  Control, power, leadership and politics.

Participants:  Dana Rapp, Ashland Univ., Eric Weiner, Montclair State Univ.; Monica Pini, Univ. of New Mexico; Cesar Rossatto, Univ. of Texas, El Paso; Mark Dressman, Julia Johnson, Philip Wilder, Univ. of Illinois-Champaign; Kathleen Sernak, Rowan Univ.

Session 50.29 – Friday, April 5th – 8:45 – 9:25 a.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 8th fl.

Paper Discussion – Current thought in Wholistic Education

Sponsored by the Wholistic Education SIG

Participants:  Pierre-Yves Barbier, Rudolf Steiner College; Robert H. London,  San Bernardino; Mary Beattie, OISE/Univ. of Toronto; Robin A. Martin, Iowa State Univ.; Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon, Univ. of Tennessee.

Session 50.32 – Friday, April 5th – 8:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Location:  Sheraton, 821, 8th floor

Interactive Symposium, sponsored by division G

Change from the outside:  How social change groups work to influence education

Schools and social protest groups:  An historical perspective, Craig Peck, Stanford University;

Shaking up the system:  The role of nonprofit social change groups,  Sarah N. Deschenes, Stanford Univ.;

Vehicles for change: The role of grassroots community organizations, Rachel Ebby, Stanford Univ.;

Empowerment through knowledge:  A professional development experience with school reform and social change, Teresa McCaffrey, Univ. of Washington.

Session 54.34 – Friday, April 5th – 12:25 – 1:05 p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Armstrong Ballroom, 8th floor

Paper Discussion – Saying more:  Research issues for multicultural learning

Sponsored by the Research in Social Studies Education SIG-  Marilyne Boyle-Biase, Indiana Univ.

Session 54.75 – Friday, April 5 – 12:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Location:  Sheraton, Pontchartrain E, 3rd floor

Paper Session: Understanding why conflict and violence occur in the schools.

The contributions of high risk peer group behaviors on junior high victimization, Ron Astor, Univ. of Michigan; Rami Benbenishty, Muhammed  Haj; Anat Zeira, Hebrew Univ.; Ronald Pitner, Roxanne Marachi, Suzanne Perkins,  Univ. of Michigan.

Additional papers by Sandra Harris, Stephen F. Austin State Univ.; Judy Isernhagen, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln; Sandry Lowery, Stephen F. Austin State University.

Attributions toward violence of male juvenile delinquents:  A case methodological analysis, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Howard Univ; Christine E. Daley.

School shooting case studies:  Lessons in prevention, responses, &  conflict resolution, Rebecca Gajda, Univ. of Vermont; Ellyn Dickmann.

Elementary preservice teachers constructing meaning about school, Kimberly M. Williams, SUNY, Cortland;

What makes a safe school? Principals’ perspectives – Part one, Sheryl E. Cohen, Peninsula Pointe Academy;

Students behaving badly: Consequences of weapons violations in school, Wendy B. Dickinson, Grace W. Hall, Univ. of South Florida.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS & OTHER RESOURCES:

Bjerstedt, A. (2001).  Educating towards a culture of

     peace:  A select bibliography focusing on the last 25

     years.  Malmo, Sweden:  University of Malmo

Peace Education SIG member, pioneer IPRA Peace Education Commission Convener.

Borstelmann, T. (2001).  The Cold War and the color

     line:  American race relations in the global arena. 

     Cambridge:  Harvard University Press.

Brown, J.H., D’Emidio-Caston, M., &Benard, B. (2002). 

     Resilience Education.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Corwin

     Press.

Crocker, C.A., Hampson, F.O. & Aall, P.(Eds.).   (2001). 

     Turbulent peace:  the challenges of managing

     international conflict.  Washington, DC:  U.S.   

     Institute of Peace.

Dam, K.W. (2001). The rules of the global game:  A new

     look at US international economic policymaking.    

     Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

DiGiulio, R. (2000).  Positive classroom management:  A

     step-by-step guide to successfully running the show

     without destroying student dignity.  2nd ed. 

     Thousand Oaks, CA:  Corwin Press.  Author is a

     Peace Education SIG member.

Elshtain, J.B. (2002).  Jane Addams and the dream of

     American democracy:  A life.  New York:  Basic

     Books.

Gardner, H., Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Damon, W.

     (2001).  Good work:  When excellence and ethics

     meet.   New York:  Basic Books.

Halberstam, D. (2002).  War in a time of peace.  New

     York;  Scribner’s.

Janke, R.M., Penshorn, J. & Berlowe, B. (2002).  The

     compassionate rebel.    Scandia, MN:  Growing    

     Communities for Peace(P.O. Box 248, Scandia, MN

     55073). 

Peterson, T.V. (2002).  Linked arms:  A rural

     community resists nuclear waste.  Albany, NY: State

     University of New York Press.

Porteous, J.D. & Smith, S.E. (2001).  Domicide:  The   

     global destruction of home.  Montreal:  McGill

     University.

Rosenberg, W. (2001).  Legacy of rage:  Jewish

     masculinity, violence, and culture.  Boston: 

     University of Massachusetts Press.

Rucker, P.M. (2002).  This troubled land:  Voices from

     Northern Ireland on the front lines of peace. New

     York:  Random House (Ballantine hardcover)

Small, M.F. (2001).  Kids:  How biology and culture

     shape the way we raise our children.  New York: 

     Random House.

Thompson, M., Grace, C., with Cohen, L.J. (2001).  Best

     friends, worst enemies:  Understanding the social

     lives of children  (within a “climate of school

     violence.” New York:  Random House.

Touval, S. (2002).  Mediation in the Yugoslav wars: 

     The critical years, 1990-95.  New York:  Palgrave at

     St. Martin’s.

Van Ausdale, D. & Feagin, J.R. (2002).  The first R: 

     How children learn race and racism.    New York: 

     Rowman & Littlefield.

Webster, F. (Ed.)  (2001).  Culture and politics in the

     information age:  A new politics.   New York: 

     Routledge.

Wylie, D. (2001).  Hunger and the triumph of cultural

     racism in South Africa.  Charlottesville, VA: 

     University of Virginia Press.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Choices Project at Brown University (events of

     September 11th)

        www.choices.edu/Sept11/top.html

Friendship Through Education

        http://www.friendshipthrougheducation.org/

Humanitarian Resource Institute(International Peace

     Center)

        www.humanitarian.net

Internet Public Library(for academic periodicals &

     online texts).

        www.ipl.org

Peacemakers Speak (16 Nobel Peace Laureates on the

     tragedy of September 11th)

        www.thecommunity.com/crisis

President’s Campaign to Feed Children of Afghanistan

        www.whitehouse.gov

School Mediator Newsletter (free) (Richard Cohen)

        http://www.schoolmediation.com

Subscribe by sending email to:   

     sma@schoolmediation.com

Search:  Searches several engines at once

        http://www.ihound.com

Sustainable Development International(Wind Energy)

        www.sustdev.org/about

Theology and Peace Online Bibliography

        http://www.ithpeace.de/bibl

Taiping Declaration on the Culture of Peace

        http://www.everlastingpeace.net

Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths, a free ebook by Mark

    Shepard.  Access Nonviolence page and then ebook:

        http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence

Media and Peace Institute, University for Peace (Paris)

        www.mediapeace.org

Stanley Foundation (available online)

Recent publications(humanitarian intervention, ballistic

     missile defense, China, etc.).

        www.stanleyfoundation.org

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

A JOURNAL REVISITED:   Common Cause , published by Duke University Press,  has been described as a journal with a mission to bring together “intellectuals and public figures” to bridge the gaps between disciplines, geography and ideology” in search of  “a common cause” to examine issues that may be divisive.

The current issue (Vol. 8, No. 1, edited by Jeffrey M. Perl has in its current issue essays “that initiate a continuing symposium on dispute, conflict, and enmity” titled “Peace and Mind.” To subscribe:  1-888-387-5764; www.dukeupress.edu/ck

POLICY BRIEFS from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  Available on their website:  www.nd.edu/~krocinst/ocpapers/

Topics include the children of Northern Ireland, Guatemala, Muslim perspectives on September 11th, conflict resolution, and Kashmir and the War on Terrorism. 

MERGER OF SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONS:  The Association for Conflict Resolution has recently merged with The Academy of Family Mediators, the Conflict Resolution Education Network and the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.  Their website is:  www.acresolution.org

BIRTH OF A NEW JOURNAL:  Peaceful Planet. The free, on-line  journal will focus on issues related to world peace, social, and environmental issues.  Available at:  geraldfox@mac.com or fox@env.kiakyu=u.ac.jp

CONFLICT RESOLUTION SCHOOL-BASED RESEARCH PROJECT:  Daniel O’Leary, former Executive Director of COPRED, has launched a plan to create a resource guide on “School-based programs to promote constructive modes of conflict resolution since 1980.”  Contact him at:   lutifish@yahoo.com

Education Week Features Articles on Peace Education

Peace Education SIG Chair, Blythe Hinitz and founding SIG member, Ian Harris were both quoted on their opinions in view of the September 11th tragedy, in an article on peace education titled “Peace Educators Struggle with War” by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo in Education Week (October 24, 2001.)  A week previously, Mary Ann Zehr explored the feelings of students at the Germantown Friends School in an article titled “At a Quaker School, Mixed Feelings on War” that appeared in the October 17, 2001 issue of Education Week.  Both articles can be accessed at:

http://www.edweek.org/ew/newstory.

                                           cfm