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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:27:00 EDT
From:         JANET CHAYES <JCHAYES@HAMP.HAMPSHIRE.EDU>
Subject:      Spec. Comm. on Arms Control Educ.

                                For Immediate Release

INTERNATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS UNITED NATIONS
COMMISSION LAUNCHES  GLOBAL PROGRAM  FOR  ARMS  CONTROL EDUCATION

A Commission supported jointly by the International Association of University
Presidents and the United Nations is creating a global program for arms control
education. This program will include eight projects, among them development of
prototype undergraduate and professional school courses in arms control and a
series of seminars for university presidents, scholars from developing
countries, journalists, and religious and business leaders.

The IAUP/UN Commission on Arms Control Education outlined its undertaking
at a press conference in November at the United Nations where the 140-member
Commission has been holding monthly meetings for more than a year.

Its membership includes leading experts in arms control education from
throughout the world, two ambassadors to the UN, two UN under-secretaries, UN
disarmament specialists, the Secretary General of the Pugwash Conference on
Science & World Affairs, the Director of the UN Center for Disarmament in
Africa, the scientific advisor to the Defense Secretary of Great Britain, the
Advisor to the Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Latin
American Association of Social Scientists, the Russian representative to the UN
Conference on Disarmament at Geneva, and presidents of colleges and
universities internationally.

Prvoslav Davinic, Director of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs,
says "the Commission and its work represent an educational network
not previously achieved by the UN. The work of the Commission is
central to creating a more enlightened citizenry and a  leadership...
more receptive to arms control as a means of converting military
expenditures to economic and environmental needs."

Dr. Rafael Cartagena, President of the IAUP, declares that the Commission
"is at the heart of what the International Association of University
Presidents is all about." The motto of the IAUP is "Security of Mankind
through Education."

The co-chairpersons of the Commission, Dr. Leland Miles, President
Emeritus of the IAUP, and Dr. L. Eudora Pettigrew, President of the
State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, stress that the
Commission projects can be important in maintaining peaceful relations
among nations. "This kind of education is, in the long run, the best
type of preventive diplomacy," said Dr.Miles. "The projects may
encourage nations to learn more about peace and less about war,"
said Dr. Pettigrew.

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.

        *  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 .
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