PJSA Blog: Commentaries, Viewpoints, and Visions

Divisions Over Peace Studies

August 10, 2010
Inside Higher Ed
At a time when student interest is growing in nongovernmental organizations and conflict resolution, faculty members in peace studies master's programs and those who employ their graduates appear to have split on the direction these programs should take.
“In a nutshell, academics have a certain perception of
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Tag(s): education; peace studies; international relations

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-08-10 19:21:53 View Replies (1) Post Reply

PJSA statement regarding Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project

In response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling in Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project that supports a broad-ranging law that allows Americans who offer advice to banned organizations, including legal assistance and information on conflict resolution, to be prosecuted as terrorists, the Peace and Justice Studies Association makes the
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Tag(s): humanitarianism; Supreme Court; Activism

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Every Teacher a Peace Teacher

Every Teacher a Peace Teacher
by David Cook
YES! Magazine
June 29, 2010

Earlier this year, I walked into the university classroom where I teach a course in Peace Studies. Seated in a circle around the room were seniors just shy of graduating. They would soon become doctors, social workers, teachers, community organizers, executives,
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Tag(s): education; peace studies; K-12 education

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-07-24 15:45:31 View Replies (0) Post Reply

The Ironies of Peace

In 1982 Mother Teresa of Calcutta stunned the world by announcing that she was going into a raging conflict in Beirut to rescue disabled children from an abandoned orphanage. It was during the bombardment that Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel called “Operation Peace [that word again] for Galilee.”
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Tag(s): Alternatives to militarism; Nobel speech; Obama

Added by Michael Nagler on 2010-06-12 21:54:34 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Quelling Evil

Subject: Quelling Evil is not Evil.
President Obama, in his speech in Oslo, presented the right philosophy about war and peace. There are such things as just wars. Fighting to relieve people from aggression, genocide and terrorism are just wars. This is the mission
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Tag(s): conflict

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Consortium of Professional and Academic Associations Condemns Arizona Immigration Law

An ad-hoc working group comprised of representatives from over twenty leading professional and academic associations has issued a joint statement condemning Arizona’s immigration law (SB 1070) and related state policies such as the prohibition against Ethnic Studies programs (HB 2281), calling for these laws to be rescinded. The "Consortium of
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Tag(s): immigration; education; Activism

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PJSA Issues Statement Condemning Arizona Immigration Law

As one of the leading professional organizations in the fields of Peacebuilding, Conflict Studies, and Social Justice, the Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA) has issued a strong condemnation of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. Joining with other academic and educational associations in related fields, we believe that the
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Tag(s): immigration; Arizona; dehumanization; discrimination

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-05-17 09:02:28 View Replies (0) Post Reply

A Ripple of Hope: RFK and MLK

I rented A Ripple of Hope from Blockbuster online -- and you should do the same. This just-released 54-minute documentary is about Robert Kennedy's April 4, 1968 campaign speech in Indianapolis, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. It is one of the most profound and important speeches
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Tag(s): history; nonviolence; film

Added by Susan Ives on 2010-05-13 09:48:15 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Walls and Bridges

Tearing Down Walls and Building Bridges

Jean-Marie Muller *
Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a war pilot in May of 1940 when he wrote these lines: "The drama retreating is that it removes all meaning from one's acts. Whoever tears down a bridge can only tear it down with disgust.
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Government economic policy may drive world affairs.

PJSA members:

I sent Floyd's recent reference to my broker this morning. My broker is a very bright fellow, with his own firm and thus free to think very independently of big business/ big investment firm policies or philosophies. He talks below
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Tag(s): Goverment policy; Economics; Activism