Newsgroups: bit.listserv.disarm-l
Date:         Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:55:04 EST
From:         "Donald F. Parsons MD" <DFP10@ALBNYVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Spec. Comm. on Arms Control Educ.
              12 Dec 1992 23:27:00 EDT from <JCHAYES@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU>

On Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:27:00 EDT JANET CHAYES said:
>                                For Immediate Release
>
>INTERNATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS UNITED NATIONS
>COMMISSION LAUNCHES  GLOBAL PROGRAM  FOR  ARMS  CONTROL EDUCATION
>
/*  A very welcome move DFP    */
>The Commission's eight projects are:
>
>        *  Development of a prototype undergraduate course in arms
>control for use at schools around the world. The Commission team
>working on this project is led by Dr. Steven L. Spiegel of the
>Department  of Political Science of the University of California
>at Los Angeles, and a fellow at the UCLA Center for International
>and Strategic Studies.
>
>        *  Development of a prototype course for professional schools
>by a team headed by Dr. Victor Sidel, professor at the Albert Einstein
>College of Medicine in New York and a founder and former President
>of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Physicians for the
>Prevention of Nuclear War.
>
>        *  A prototype course linking arms control and the environment
>-- with a special emphasis on the ecologial costs of the recent years
>of conflict in El Salvador. This is a subject not addressed at the UN
>Conference on Environment and Development in Rio. This course is being
>constructed by a team led by Edward H. Page, Director of Business
>Executives for National Security. Among those on the team is Professor
>Juan Jose Garcia of the Univeristy of Cnetral American in El Salvador.
>
>        *  A seminar in arms control education for university presidents
>to inspire them to encourage their faculties to introduce courses in
>security and peace studies. This seminar will be conducted at the
>IAUP triennial meeting to be held this summer in Kobe, Japan and will
>involve hundreds of college and university presidents from around
>the world. A team led by Dr. Miles is developing this seminar and
>includes Heitor Gurgulino de Souza, Rector of the United Nations
>University in Tokyo.
>
>        *  A seminar in arms control education for journalists and
>religious and business leaders to be held in June 1993 at the
>State University of New York/College at Old Westbury to aid them
>in learning new realities about arms control in the post-Cold War
>Era. In 1994, a seminar will be held for diplomats, economists and
>government officials. A special seminar is envisioned for
>Education School faculty and high school teachers. A team headed by Dr.
>Pettigrew is in charge of this project.
>
>        *  An International Training Seminar for scholars from developing
>countries, to be held in the Fall 1993 at Juniata College in Pennsylvania.
>The seminar, developed by a team led by Dr. Andrew Murray, Director of
>the Baker Institute for Peace & Conflict Studies at Juniata College,
>is working with a panel of consultants including Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse
>from the Department of War Studies at King's College, London.
>
>        *  A research project on restructuring the miliary to be
>undertaken by a team led by Stephen Fought of the U.S. Naval War
>College supported by other military and civilian experts including
>Ambassador S. Batsanov, Russian Representative to the UN Conference
>on Disarmament at Geneva.
>
>        *  An electronic communications network using the Internet,
>set up by a team led by Janet Chayes, former Assistant Vice President
>of the Connecticut State University System, and including David Outcalt,
>Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Stanislav
>Mercuriev, Rector of St. Petersburg State University, and Thomas C.
>Daffern of the Institute of Peace Studies of the University of London.
>
   Could the essential results be posted routinely to DISARM-L?

  The above efforts seem very laudable in terms of longterm education
but really do not solve the assessment of arms sales on a more urgent
basis (as mentioned in my post of last week). I see no reason for delay
in giving a DISARM-L report on world arms sales for 1991 and a monthly
report subsequently.  These would be stored in designated LISTSERV
files and will be accessable by all (including the media). The
LISTSERV LDBASE search function can be used to extract a particular
topic. It seems important to me to get this underway right away. Don

>        *  A coooperative effort with UNESCO to expand its development
>of a world directory of arms control and related courses. This project
>team is led by Lucy Webster, editor of the Disarmament Newsletter
>published by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, and
>includes Ms. Kaisa Savolainen, Director of the Division of
>Educational Development at UNESO in Paris.
>
>For further information, phone Dr. Leland Miles (203/255-4269), President
>Eudora Pettigrew (516/876-3160), Ms. Lucy Webster (212/963-5597,
>Professor Karl Grossman (516/725-2858), or Ms. Janet Chayes
>(JCHAYES@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU .
>                                        END

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