Brandeis International Fellowships in HumanRights, Intervention, and International Law

In This Issue

2 Visiting Chinese Scholar

3 2001 Ethics & Coexistence Fellows

3 Seminars in Humanities & Professions

4 Middle East Student Retreat

5 Fall/Winter Highlights

6 Seeger/Sapp Residency

8 Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of

Conscience

10 The Lessons of Kosovo

12 Global Education Partnerships

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basis of knowledge, formulate anoverview of the internationaljudicial arena, and identify leadingquestions in human rights law andactivism. They will also engage inhumanities-based reflection onethics, values, and professionalpractice and will consider thecurrent state of judicial education.These discussions will frame theissues and identify key lacunae inthought and practice in the field.Fellows will begin work on theirprojects following the first institute.

The second institute will focuson the discussion of the Fellows’original work to strengthen projectsand inform subsequent revisions,and will coincide with a weeklongjudicial education pilot program for12-16 international judges toexamine key issues related to theirrole and status. Fellows willparticipate in aspects of thisprogram and may lead selectedsessions. Fellows will prepare theirprojects for publication after thesecond institute.

During the third institute,Fellows will create an implementationplan for the ideas generated duringthe institutes. The content andstructure of the educational

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Announcing thepublication of“Catholics, Jews,and the Prism ofConscience:Responses toJames Carroll’s

Constantine’s Sword ” in spring 2001.For more information visit our website at www.brandeis.edu/ethics.See related story on page 8.

T he Center is soliciting applications for the Brandeis International Fellowshipsin Human Rights, Intervention,and International Law. Theprogram convenes scholars,educators, activists, and judgesfrom around the world to develop aframework for reflective practice ininternational courts on issues ofhuman rights and intervention.Ten Fellows will be selected from abroad range of professional groupsincluding: judges, former judgesor legal professionals withinternational experience;practitioners and theorists workingin reconciliation or conflictresolution; human rights activists;diplomats or military officers withexperience in intervention; andscholars with expertise in thehumanities or law. Fellows willattend three one-week institutes atBrandeis University in November2001, June 2002, and April 2003 todevelop a methodology for orientingnew international judges to areas ofhuman rights and intervention.Fellows will also produce projects,such as scholarly articles orteaching modules for judges.

During the first institute,Fellows will draw on one another’sexpertise to establish a common

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New Visiting Scholarfrom China

Dr. Wei Zonglei is a Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University on afellowship supported by the Ford Foundation. He is a researchscholar at the China Institute of Contemporary InternationalRelations, a Beijing-based, fullygovernment-funded Chinesegovernmental research institutedirectly under the State Councilof China. The CICIR wasestablished in 1982 as the firstChinese institute on internationalstudies opening exchanges withforeign think tanks, universities,and governmental/non-governmental institutions oninternational affairs. WeiZonglei’s topic of study isWestern HumanitarianIntervention: Implications forChinese Interests.

StaffDaniel TerrisDirector

Cynthia CohenDirector, The Brandeis Initiative inIntercommunal Coexistence

April Powell-WillinghamDirector, Combined Programs in Ethics,Inclusion, and Social Justice at the HellerSchool and The International Center forEthics, Justice and Public LifeMarci McPheeAssistant Director

Mark Power RobisonSenior Program Officer

Melissa BlanchardWriterJennifer RouseAdministrative Assistant

Sara ZenleaAdministrative Assistant, The BrandeisInitiative in Intercommunal Coexistence

Mary DavisAcademic Director, Brandeis Seminars inHumanities and the Professions Program

MissionThe International Center for Ethics,Justice, and Public Life at BrandeisUniversity exists to illuminate theethical dilemmas and obligationsinherent in global and professionalleadership, with particular focus onthe challenges of racial, ethnic, andreligious pluralism. Examiningresponses to past conflicts, acts ofintervention, and failures tointervene, the Center seeks to enablejust and appropriate responses in thefuture. Engaging leaders and futureleaders of government, business, andcivil society, the Center crossesboundaries of geography anddiscipline to link scholarship andpractice through publications,programs, and projects.

Contact InformationThe International Center for Ethics,Justice and Public LifeMS 086 Brandeis UniversityP.O. Box 549110Waltham, Massachusetts02454-9110 USAPhone: 781-736-8577Fax: 781-736-8561Email: ethics@brandeis.eduWeb: www.brandeis.edu/ethics

News

In February, Cynthia Cohen, director of the Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal

Coexistence, spoke to students at the Rhode Island School of Design on the role

of the arts and aesthetic processes in educational work associated with

reconciliation and coexistence. Mary Davis, academic director of Brandeis

Seminars in Humanities and the Professions, delivered a keynote address at a

three-day conference in January on Juvenile Delinquency and the Courts in San

Diego. Mark Robison, senior program officer for the Center, participated in two

conferences at Yale University and a conference at Oxford University during

December and February. He presented three papers on the history of the British

Empire in the 18th century with a particular focus on intercultural relations.

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The 2001 Student Fellows will becompleting their summer internships withthe following organizations. Theseplacements are tentative.

• Aliya Caler ’02 Gender Advocacy Programme: Cape Town, South Africa• Maryanne Cullinan ’02 The Corrymeela Community: Ballycastle, Northern Ireland• Anna Jaffe-Desnick ’02 Gender Advocacy Programme: Cape Town, South Africa• Jennifer Lewey ’02 Sewa Lanka Foundation: Colombo, Sri Lanka• Yaser Robles ’03 Ikamva Labantu: Cape Town, South Africa• Daniel Weinstein ’02 (to be determined) Jerusalem, Israel

2001 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows

programs conceived during thethree institutes will form the basisof a new judicial education programsponsored by the Center. The lastinstitute will coincide with thepublication of a compilation ofFellows’ projects and a publicconference to disseminate productsdeveloped during the fellowshipprogram.

Fellows receive round-trip traveland accommodations for all threeinstitutes and a $2,500 stipend tosupport their projects. Applicationsare due no later than June 1, 2001,will be accepted by mail, FAX,or email, and must include apersonal statement, résumé, andtwo supporting letters ofrecommendation. Candidates will benotified by July 1, 2001. For moreinformation visit the Center onlineat www.brandeis.edu/ethics or call781-736-8577. The BrandeisInternational Fellowships are fundedby the Rice Family Foundation.

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This year’s Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows

The State Justice Institute has justrenewed its generous grant to theBrandeis Seminars in the amountof nearly $40,000, the same amountit had allocated for programs injuvenile justice in 1999-2000. Thepreviously funded 18-month grant,“Juvenile Justice at Crossroads:Literature-Based Seminars forJudges, Court Personnel andCommunity Leaders” enabled us tocreate and implement seven day-long seminars under the aegis ofthe Center and in conjunction withthe Massachusetts State JudicialInstitute. This continuation grantfor the period from July 2001through June 2001 will allowDr. Mary E. Davis, academic directorof the Brandeis Seminars, andMarilyn J. Wellington, judicialeducator of the Massachusetts StateJudicial Institute, to extend andexpand their important work with

variousconstituenciesin the field ofjuvenile justice.Through theBrandeisSeminars thisnew grant willexplore vitalissues includingthose of youngfemaleoffenders, racial and socio-economic disparities amongjuveniles, and communityinvolvement for crime preventionand offender reintegration. Ouraspiration is to impel participantstoward pragmatic solutions toproblems confronting those whowork in diverse areas of juvenilejustice – courts, clinics, schools,agencies, police, and communitygroups.

Brandeis Seminars in the Humanities and Professions

Dr. Mary E. Davis

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Students Focus on Dialogue, Public Engagementin Retreat on Middle East

O ver the February break, eight Brandeis students and three recent alumni spent four days on retreat in western Massachusettsexploring the contemporary situation in the Middle East and planningon how they can act publicly to work towards peace and coexistence.The participants were principally Arab and Jewish students from Israeland Jordan, many of whom are at Brandeis on Slifka “coexistence”scholarships. The retreat, funded by Morton Meyerson of Texas andorganized as part of the Brandeis Initiative on IntercommunalCoexistence, exemplifies the ways that Brandeis students are combiningpersonal experience, intellectual engagement, and reflective dialogue tomake a public impact on issues of international importance.

Participating students and alumni included: Judah Ariel ‘04,Taher Baderkhan ‘03, Michael Bavly ‘00, Yoav Borowitz ‘00,Forsan Hussein ‘00, Maisa Khshaibon ‘03, Daniel Langenthal(Heller/Hornstein), Zein Nasif ‘03, Marina Pevzner ‘04, Munther Samawi‘04, and Waseem Yahya ‘03.

Retreat leaders were Center staff members Cynthia Cohen andDan Terris, Gordie Fellman ofBrandeis’ sociology department,and Palestinian-Israelicoexistence facilitator FarhatAgbaria.

Snapshots from the Middle East Retreat:(clockwise from upper right) YoavBorowitz and Forsan Hussein; MarinaPevzner and Zein Nasif; Gordie Fellmanand Farhat Agbaria; Munther Samawi,Judah Ariel, and Waseem Yahya; MaisaKhshaibon and Cindy Cohen.

The Center WelcomesNew Staff MemberMark Power Robison joins theCenter as senior programofficer, working on severalprojects including the BrandeisInternational Fellows program.Mark came to Brandeis in 1998

as executiveassistant tothe Provostand to theDean of Artsand Sciences.His newposition splitshis timebetween theCenter and theOffice of theProvost, where

he coordinates the ConsilienceSeminar, a program thatengages faculty members indiscussions on interdisciplinaryteaching and research. Markrecently earned his Ph.D. inhistory from the University ofColorado and he continues toteach in the American Studiesdepartment at Brandeis. Inaddition to his work as ahistorian, Mark is involved inseveral international initiativesfocused on globalization andhigher education.

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Selected Highlights of Fall and Winter 2000-01 Events

“Global Feminism” with Brandeis InternationalFellows Galia Golan ’60from Israel and Cheryl dela Rey from South Africa

“Racial Knots and How to Untie Them,” with Dr. Beth Roy ’61,author

“Globalization and Militarization in Chiapas, Mexico” featuringManuel Hernandez Aguilar, indigenous leader

“Thinking Globally and Acting Locally: What does HawaiianGardens, CA have in common with Jerusalem?” by TamaraBeliak ‘00

“Justice Against All Odds,” a talk by Pedro Canil Gonzalez,community leader from Guatemala

“Reconstructing Kosovo,” a documentary photography/textexhibit on war, reconstruction and reconciliation in Kosovo,produced by Friends of Bosnia

“Faces of Work at Brandeis: An Exhibitionof Images and Stories” honoring the oftenunseen workers at Brandeis

“Should We Design our Descendants?” with Art Caplan ’71,director of the Center for Bioethics at the University ofPennsylvania

“A Conversation with Ruth Messinger,” president of AmericanJewish World Service

“The Current Situation in the Middle East: TwoViews” featuring Wendi Orange, JewishAmerican writer and therapist, and FarhatAgbaria, Palestinian Israeli coexistencefacilitatorFor details on upcoming

and recent events visitthe Center online atwww.brandeis.edu/ethics

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Pete Seeger and Jane Sapp in Residence at Brandeis University:Building Community through Songs of Social JusticeSponsored by the Campus CoexistenceLeadership Team, a project of the BrandeisInitiative in Intercommunal Coexistence.

January 28 - 29, 2001

Student Conversation withPete Seeger and Jane Sapp

Students raised a host of questionsduring a lunchtime forum, allowingJane and Pete to share their own storiesas well as offer advice for thisgeneration.

“Building Community throughSongs of Social Justice”Pete Seeger and Jane Sappperformed in concert to a sold-outcrowd at Brandeis University’sSpingold Theatre on Monday,January 29th, 2001.

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During the concert, members ofthe Junior Class Forum joinedPete Seeger and Jane Sapp onstage. Together they performed asong written by the Junior ClassForum and Jane Sapp during aseries of song writing workshops.The following student groupsperformed during the concert:Women of Faith, Songleaders ofthe Brandeis Reform Chavurahand Spur of the Moment.

The Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence is supported by the Alan B. Slifka Foundation.

“Faces of Work at Brandeis”Exhibition Opening Reception

Maureen Fessenden, Associate VicePresident, Office of Human Resources andEmployee Relations, and also a memberof the Coexistence Leadership Team,spearheaded the event to celebrate theachievements of 15 staff members fromthroughout the university. Wendi Adelson,’01, who interviewed participants, describedthe impact of knowing more about thepeople who work here at Brandeis; “Not allof the wisdom at this university is spokenby those who stand up in front ofclassrooms.”

James CarrollIt is of ultimate importance to me asa practicing Catholic that my churchhas seriously undertaken the projectof moral reckoning with this tragic

past, beginning,especially, withthe papacy ofPope John XXIIIand morerecently withthe powerfulpersonalwitness of JohnPaul II. Thecurrent popehas done moreto heal thebreach betweenChristians andJews, and inparticularbetweenCatholics and

Jews, than any previous pope, andthe work that I have done precisely asa Catholic is in response to themillennial call I heard from him.

The culmination of John Paul II’switness was his historic act ofrepentance in 2000, coupled with his

visit to Jerusalem and his reverencingof the Western Wall. This actsymbolically reversed 2,000 years ofChristian denigration of the Templeand Christian rejection of the right ofJews to be at home in Jerusalem andIsrael.

Momentous as those acts were,however, it is necessary to see themas the beginning of something, notthe end. This historic act ofrepentance is reflected in two Vaticanstatements: “We Remember” of 1998,and “Memory and Reconciliation” of2000. That repentance wasincomplete, in the first place becauseit was abstract. The Pope apologized,yes, but without saying what exactlyhe was apologizing for.

The historic act of repentancewas incomplete, in the second place,because it omitted or evenmisrepresented key events in thishistory. In the Vatican’s memory ofthe Final Solution, for example,“many” Christians rescued Jews while“some others” participated in theirdestruction. In fact, as I once heardEva Fleischner observe, the exactopposite is the case: some Christianswere rescuers, but many were

Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of Conscience

O n January 22, 2001, Brandeis University hosted “Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of Conscience,” a symposium to coincide with the publication of a major book by James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword:The Church and the Jews, A History (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). Carroll’sbook maps the two-thousand-year course of the history of Roman CatholicChurch’s relationship to Judaism — from the time of Jesus to the Holocaust— and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic.

The Brandeis symposium explored the troubling history of relationsbetween Catholics and Jews and served as an opportunity to explore theissues facing any person who looks deeply and critically at abuses of powerwithin his or her tradition. The event was divided into three sessions:Constantine’s Sword: The Historians’ Perspective, Between Catholics andJews, and History as Refracted Conscience. The following are excerpts froman edited version of the proceedings, which will be available from the Centerin spring 2001.

Dan Terris, Eva Fleischner and JamesCarroll continue the discussion.

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complicit in the Holocaust. Notcontent to defend the silence of PiusXII as the best his difficult situationwould allow, “We Remember” turnsthe Pope into a hero of resistance onbehalf of Jews, a dubious claim to saythe least.

The historic act of repentancewas incomplete, third, because theacknowledged defenses wereattributed far too narrowly as privateacts and exceptions. The result is thatthe real horror of Christianantisemitism, so public and soconstant, has yet to be fullyconfronted.

Arthur GreenI agree with James Carroll that theRoman Catholic Church has to fullyadmit its responsibility. In theologicallanguage, that means confessing itssin. And it is the sin of the Church,the body of Christendom, with all theattraction to worldly power that

James CarrollWriter

Donald DietrichBoston College

Eugene FisherUnited States Conferenceof Bishops

Eva FleischnerMontclair State University

Arthur GreenBrandeis University

Irving GreenbergJewish Life Network

Edward KaplanBrandeis University

Kanan MakiyaBrandeis University

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Paul Mendes-FlohrUniversity of Chicago

Krister StendahlBishop Emeritus ofStockholm, Sweden

Daniel TerrisBrandeis University

Robert WistrichHebrew University

carried it to greatness — it is theChurch that needs to attest to its sin,not just the errant ways of someChristians who “distorted” or “failedto understand” the Church’s messageof love.

At the same time, we Jews for toolong reveled in the moral righteousnessgranted us by our victimhood. Anyhint of talk about Jewish complicityin the nightmare of our history, anysense that Christian exclusivism, forexample, had been inherited from ourclaims of unique chosenness as God’sonly people, was dismissed as a cruelway of “blaming the victim.” But ourcollective re-entry into the world ofpower politics and our often powerfulvoice as citizens in democraticcountries no longer allow us theluxury of this dismissal.

As we ask that Christians gofarther than is comfortable inexamining their history and attitudesin relation to us, we have some

serious questions to ask of ourselvesas well. The limiting of noble Biblicalethical proclamations to one’s fellow-Jew rather than extending them to allhumanity, as found in not a fewrabbinic commentaries, isunacceptable. The relative toleranceof halakhic authorities in the past fortaking economic advantage of non-Jews, including governments, has tobe re-examined and repudiated. Thedaily blessing that thanks God “fornot having made me a gentile” is fullyas worthy of rejection as the one inwhich we men are to thank God “fornot having made me a woman,” allapologetics notwithstanding. Therabbis’ demonization of Esau, thesupposed ancestor of Christendom,and of Balaam, the prophet of thenon-Jews, speak ill of our tradition.

Dare weask others tochange andourselvescontinue tospeak, as we doin the weeklyHavdalahservice at theconclusion ofthe Sabbath, ofa God whodistinguishes“light from darkness, the holy fromthe profane, Israel from the nations?”When we ask ourselves the reallyhard question of the Holocaust —“Had we not been the victims, howmany of us would have risked ourlives and our children’s lives to savegypsies, or gays, or Catholics, forthat matter?” — we do not have thenerve to even try to answer. The nextquestion — “Would our Judaism havedemanded of us that we do so? — isalso one that we cannot ignore.

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community or any national state.A similar gap existed during theapartheid years in South Africa.Although apartheid laws wereimmoral, they were enforced.When laws are regarded as immoral,credibility is lost, resulting in acomplete breakdown of the criminaljustice system. In South Africa,there was a deterioration of thewhole moral fiber. The same thingwill happen in the internationalcommunity if this gap is not closed.

The Commission concluded thatto close the gap the internationalcommunity and the GeneralAssembly must identify politicaland moral conditions that justifymilitary intervention on humanitariangrounds. We have set out 11 specialconditions to begin the developmentof a non-binding declaration thatprovides a political and moralframework to guide the internationalcommunity in deciding whetherthere should be militaryintervention.

Hurst HannumI believe that the interventionwas not only illegal but it wasillegitimate, unethical, politicallycounterproductive, and in everyother respect a mistake. We have to

address the facts when consideringthe legitimacy of intervention. TheCommission had difficultygathering statistics on violent actsagainst civilians. Preciselyquantifying the abuse was difficult,if not impossible. Therefore, noone knew the extent of the violenceand yet, a bombing campaign wasunleashed. Between 1,000 and2,000 Albanians and Serbs werekilled during the internal war. Atleast 500 civilians were killed byNATO and between 5,000 and10,000 people were killed duringthe 78 days of the bombing. In themonths following the bombing, thenumber of killings roughly equaledthose that occurred prior to thebombing, the difference being thatSerbs became the victims instead ofAlbanians. Under thosecircumstances, it is difficult for meto conclude that the operation wasjustifiable or legitimate in anysense.

Legitimizing the intervention isdisastrous for additional reasons. Itencourages manipulative separatistviolence in other regions. Non-humanitarian political interventionswill also be encouraged because ofthe looseness with which the NATOintervention occurred and wasdetermined to be justifiable by theCommission. It diminishes respectfor the rule of law at an internationallevel. Lastly, it undermines thedevelopment of criteria forhumanitarian intervention, assuggested by the Commission. Iftheir proposed criteria justify theKosovo intervention, interventionscan be justified in any region.Criteria for intervention must bereserved for the Somalias andRwandas and cannot be misusedfor the Kosovos.

Intervention and Prevention: The Lessons of Kosovo

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Richard GoldstoneThe Commission had no difficultydetermining the legality of theintervention. It was absolutelyillegal. It was contrary tointernational law and violated theUnited Nations Charter. However,we determined that the interventionwas justified from a political and

ethical point ofview. TheCommissionused the termlegitimate;however, I nowbelieve justifiedis a moreappropriateterm. By

legitimate we meant it wasjustified because of the ethical andpolitical considerations regardingthe occurrence of ethnic cleansingand the threats of ethnic cleansingof ethnic Albanians in Kosovo bythe Milosevic regime.

The Commission carefullyconsidered the wide gap betweenlegality and ethical and politicaljustification. The UN Charter makesthe intervention illegal. Therefore, agap exists between the law andmorality, which is a dangeroussituation for the international

n December 12, 2000, Brandeis hosted “Intervention and Prevention: The Lessons of Kosovo,” a roundtable discussion on the 1999 conflict inKosovo and its implications for the future. The occasion for this forum wasthe release of the report by The Independent International Commission onKosovo. The event was divided into three seminars: Military Intervention:Politics, Ethics, Law, and Public Opinion; The Status of Kosovo:Challenges to the Ideal of the Multi-Ethnic State; and Prevention andIntervention: Lessons for the Future. A publication of the proceedings willbe forthcoming in 2001.

The following excerpts are from the session Military Intervention:Politics, Ethics, Law, and Public Opinion. Panelists discussed theconclusion, outlined in the report, that although NATO’s actions were illegal,they were politically and ethically justifiable.

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Henry SteinerBefore we intervene, how do weknow how to solve violence if itsuddenly erupts? Does the fact thatwe cannot come to a clear means andinstrumental solution mean that weshould not intervene? Should we notintervene because we are unclearabout will happen once we stopwhatever it is that we think must bestopped, be it killing or torture?When is it right to move in? It isunclear what would have happened tothe Serbians and Kosovar Albanianshad NATO not engaged in bombing.Yet, we talk so much of preventiveintervention. There have to beserious violations of physical securityand physical integrity to justifyintervention. However, must there bemassive killing? What kind of

Dejan AnastasijevicJournalist, Time MagazineEileen BabbittTufts UniversitySeyom BrownBrandeis UniversitySteven BurgBrandeis UniversityRichard GoldstoneJustice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (Commission Chair)Paula GreenKaruna Center for PeacebuildingHurst HannumTufts UniversityMichael IgnatieffWriter, Harvard University (Commission Member)Martha MinowHarvard Law School (Commission Member)Susan MoellerBrandeis UniversityJoan PearcePublic Utilities Department, UNMIK, KosovoBarry PosenMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyGeorge RossBrandeis UniversityJoshua RubensteinAmnesty InternationalHenry SteinerHarvard Law SchoolDaniel TerrisBrandeis UniversityDanilo TürkUnited Nations

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probabilities do we need? We mustexamine whether this is a realisticway of approaching intervention.

The situation in Kosovo wasassessed against the background ofwhat happened in Bosnia andCroatia. The record of Milosevic andthe militant nationalist Serbs wasknown. Therefore, there was anawareness of the substantialprobability of massive violenceagainst the Kosovar Albanians. NATOcame to an educated conclusion thatthere would be massive violence.There are many perplexing questionsto which I don’t have answers.However, I am disturbed by the factthat the critiques of intervention, asthey relate to Kosovo, might forestallfuture interventions in situationsfacing these same issues.

Panel members Eileen Babbitt, GeorgeRoss, Daniel Terris, Richard Goldstoneand Danilo Türk

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Global Education Partnerships at Brandeis University

is to strengthen communities,particularly disenfranchisedcommunities, and to enhance therelationships among distinctcultural groups within and betweencommunities.

Three partnership teams, eachconsisting of a Brandeis facultymember, two students, and acommunity partner, will be formed.The project will take place over thespring, summer, and fall of 2001.Partner organizations have beenselected in Grenada, Haifa, andAlabama. April Powell-Willinghamis the project director and facultymembers Dessima Williams andGordie Fellman of the sociology

department and Susan Curnan, ofthe Heller School’s Center on Youthand Communities, will lead theGrenada, Haifa and Alabama teamsrespectively. Teams will participatein a ten-day institute, led bymusician and educator Jane Sapp.Ms. Sapp will work with teams todevelop the institute curriculum.Participants will collaborate to designand implement a culture and artsbased educational project. They willalso participate in workshopsdesigned to empower members toexplore new methods of educationand community-building using artisticexpression and the exploration ofcommunity heritage.

Global EducationPartnerships projectdirector AprilPowell-Willingham

ith funding through a grant by the Coca-Cola Foundation, the Center is pleased toannounce a new project focusing on

the exploration offamily, community, andthe cultural, aesthetic,historical, and

intellectualinheritances of

youth as sourcesof learning. Thepurpose of“GlobalEducationPartnershipsat BrandeisUniversity”