Theodore C. Sorensen,former policy advisor toPresident John F. Kennedy andSenior Counsel at Paul, Weiss,Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison,New York City, will chair theboard of The InternationalCenter for Ethics, Justice, andPublic Life.

Throughout his professionallife Mr. Sorensen has been dedicated to the global community.As a public servant he wasinvolved in the Cuban MissileCrisis, civil rights legislation,and the United States’ decisionto travel to the moon. As aninternational lawyer he hasserved international businessesand foundations and executedgovernmental transactionsthroughout the world. His workhas taken him to more than sev-enty-five countries and to meet-ings with fifty heads of govem-ment and state. He has lecturedwidely in the United States andabroad on politics and foreignpolicy, about which he has writteneight books including Kennedyand Why I Am a Democrat.

The international board, cur-rently in formation, will provideguidance and advice for theCenter’s work. The board willmeet for the first time in 2000.

Rice FamilyFoundation FundsBrandeis InternationalFellowships

The Rice Family Foundationof New York City has awardedthe Ethics Center a five-year$500,000 grant to support thenext rounds of BrandeisInternational Fellowships. Thisprogram brings together a smallgroup of scholars and practitionersfrom countries around the worldto share practices and work on

projects and public,ations relatedto the moral and ethical dimen-sions of their work.

The first round of Fellows,on campus in 1998, consideredissues of intercommunalcoexistence. The sixteenparticipants - from the formerYugoslavia, the Middle East,South Africa, and Sri Lanka -came to campus for two institutesand developed projects in theirhome regions. -A completedescription of their work can befound on the Ethics Center web site.

Collaboration among the1998 Fellows continues.Fellows Judith Green, DraganPopadic, and Zoughbi Zoughbiwill be returning to campustogether in February 2000 forwork on an anthology drawingon the 1998 institutes and oralhistories conducted with theparticipants. In the fall of 2000Galia Golan and Cheryl de laRey will return to Brandeis todesign a special project on genderand coexistence.

.lGuidelines for the next

round of fellowships, which wilfocus on a theme related to education, are under development.These guidelines and relatedmaterials are scheduled for releaseearly in 2000.

Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharzwill present a paper “TheEngagement of the University inCoexistence Education” at aNovember 7-8 conference at HaifaUniversity. The conference, entitled“Interethnic Coexistence: Educatingfor an Emerging Global Field,” issponsored by the Abraham Fund. Dr.Reinharz will extrapolate from theBrandeis experience to suggeststrategies for mobilizing coexistenceefforts among faculty, staff, andstudents.... On October 25, 1999Cynthia Cohen, director of theBrandeis Initiative in IntercommunalCoexistence, along with Ethics andCoexistence Student FellowForsan Hussein ‘00, attended“Paths to Coexistence: Conferenceon Interethnic CoexistenceInitiatives” at the University ofMichigan.. . .Cindy presented a paperon the contributions of the aestheticdomain to coexistence education;Forsan spoke about coexistence edu-cation based on his experiences bothin Shemesh, an Israeli-based coexis-tence organization, and at Brandeis.Forsan, now completing his senioryear, is one of four Slifka Scholarscurrently at Brandeis....In the sum-mer of 1999 Daniel Terris, directorof the Center, traveled to Sri Lankato explore further Ethics Center part-nerships. He was hosted by BrandeisInternational Fellows Jehan Pereraand Kandasamy Sithamparanathan. . . .During the month of October, direc-tor of the Brandeis Seminars in theHumanities, Mary E. Davis, attendedthe national conference of statejudicial educators. She also launcheda series of seminars in juvenile

iustice and conducted a seminarfor federal district court judges inConnecticut.

Brandeis International FellowsPhilip Visser and Judith Greenhave undertaken the first jointproject to be carried out by theBrandeis International Fellows.Having documented their work ona media dialogue project in theblack township of Kathorus, nearJohannesburg, they will now col-laborate to write a case study....Mirha Kratina, BrandeisInternational Fellow from Zenica,Bosnia-Herzegovina, has beenawarded one of eight Ron BrownFellowships for Bosnian studentsto study in the United States. Shewill pursue a master’s degree ineducation at Duquesne University,concentrating her studies in civiceducation.

Two 1998 Ethics and CoexistenceStudent Fellows, Eldad Elnekaveand Benjamin Singerman, havebeen named Hart Fellows by theTerry Sanford Institute of PublicPolicy at Duke University. Eldadwill study health issues amongArab women in Israel. He is partic-ularly concerned with the culturalbarriers that might prevent Arabwomen from accessing health careservices. With the support of aFulbright Student Award,Benjamin will live in Ecuador andcontinue to write about the elevenQuijos Quichua communities ofthe upper Amazon, examining themeaning of indigenous identity....1998 Ethics and CoexistenceStudent Fellow Ariele Cohen hasgraduated from Brandeis andenrolled at American UniversityLaw School in Washington,D.C.. . .Liora Corbin, another 1998Ethics and Coexistence StudentFellow, is in the Middle East forthe year. She is studying at theConservative Yeshiva and workingat the Public Committee AgainstTorture in Israel.

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Michael Ignatieff will come toBrandeis University this winter asa Distinguished Visitor of theEthics Center in conjunction withthe Andrei Sakharov Archive andHuman Rights Center. Mr.Ignatieff will share his expertisein history, philosophy, journalism,and human rights with theUniversity community. A magnetipersonality, he has written andspoken eloquently about a broadrange of contemporary topics,including nationalism and thesearch for justice in South Africaand the former Yugoslavia.

Mr. Ignatieff’s residency will runfrom January 23 to January 26,2000. During that time he willoffer a public lecture in the fieldof human rights, participate in theongoing faculty seminar seriesHuman Rights and ConflictResolution, and address Brandeisstudents at an evening meeting.In addition, he will have theopportunity to visit classroomsand gather informally with memberof the Brandeis community.

Born in Canada and educated atHarvard University, Mr. Ignatieffhas been a fellow at King’sCollege, Cambridge, Ecole desHautes Etudes, Paris, and St.Antony’s College, Oxford.For more than a decade, he hasworked as a free lance writer. Hi:award-winning writings includeThe Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic Waiand the Modem Conscience,Blood and Belonging: Journeysinto the New Nationalism, andScar Tissue, a novel. He hasrecently published a biography ofthe liberal philosopher IsaiahBerlin and will soon complete aten-part history of the twentiethcentury for BBC and CBC radio.

September 21& 22

September 27

September 30 -October 28

October 10 & 11

October 19

October 28

November 1519

November 22

“Coexistence and Community-building at BrandeisUniversity and in the World,” featuring MarthaMinow, Jane Sapp, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,and members of the Brandeis community“One Woman’s Sarajevo,” presentationand poetry reading by Ferida DurakovicEthics and Coexistence Student FellowsBrown-bag Lunch Presentations“Jewish Perspectives on Bioethics in the 21stCentury,,” conference with the AmericanPhysician’s Fellowship for Medicine in Israel“The American Tradition of Non-violence,”presentation by Michael True“MCAS: Education Reformed or Deformed?”panel on controversial statewide tests inMassachusetts, featuring four outstanding educators“Doing Justice and Loving Mercy: Perspectiveson Coexistence and Reconciliation from anAfrican Peacebuilder,” by Hizkias Assefa(see details in this issue)“Non-violence and Empowerment for SocialChange: A Global Perspective,” presentation byGeorge Lakey

Farhat Anbaria. a 1998 Brandeis International Fellow. has been com-missioned b; the International Center for Ethics, Justice,‘and PublicLife to write an occasional paper based on his experiences facilitatinggroups whose members come from communities in conflict. Specifically,the paper will address the impact of power relations on the dynamics ofgroups where encounters take place between people from historicallydivided communities.

Farhat, himself a Palestinian Israeli with extensive experience facili-tating encounters and dialogues, will draw examples from his work withSeeds of Peace International Camp and the Face-to-Face program hedirects at the Arab Jewish Center for Peace at Givat Haviva, Israel. Thepurpose of the paper is to help facilitators become aware of how thedynamics of group-based power impact both formal and informalgroups and to introduce them to strategies for working effectively withthese dynamics.

The paper will be co-authored by Dr. Cynthia Cohen, CoexistenceProgram Director at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, andPublic Life. The collaboration is being made possible by a generousgrant from Humans All Foundation and by the Alan B. Slifka Foundation,which supports the Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence.

We extend our thanksto the individuals

and fbrrndations whosegenerous contributions

in 1998 and 1999have helped to make

the work @theEthics Cerater possible.

Alan Applebaum

Arvey Foundation

Cantor Foundation

Noel M. and Leah Edelson

Abraham and Lillian Feinberg

Daniel Feinberg

Wilfred Feinberg

Leonard J. Garth

Hinerfeld Trust

Hoffman Family Foundation

John and Sandra Horvitz Fund

Humans All Foundation

Ruth D. Kobin

Adele Gurman Konecky

and Murray L. Konecky

Rosalind Lehman

Lindemann Foundation

Peter and Melanie Maier

Morton and Edythe Metzger Fund

Arnold and Irene Rabinor

Carlisle L. Rast

Rice Family Foundation

David Rosenberg

Alan B. Slifka Foundation

Stapling Machines

State Justice Institute

Jeanne Steig

David and Susan Terris

United States Institutes of Peace

Anna S. Weissberg

Norbert and Judith Schneider Weissberg

Marcia S. Wohl

Milton and Joan Wohl

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Launching the Brandeis Initiative in

Martha Minow, Harvard law professor, listens as PumlaGobodo-Madikizela, former member of South Africa’sTruth and Reconciliation Commission, joins the publicconversation “Between Vengeance and Forgiveness.”

Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows, Karen Hovav‘00 (left) and Devika Mahadevan’OO (right), share withmentor Professor Dessima Williams (center) posters oftheir summer internships at the exhibition “Coexistenceand the Quest for Justice.”

(left to right) Slifka Scholars Yoav Borowitz and Forsan Hussein join Alan Slifka and Brandeis President Jehuda Reinharzin welcoming the new Slifka Scholars, Maisa Khshaibon and Taher Baderkhan.

unnl Coexistence l September 26 & 22, 1999

Singer/songwriter, educator, activist, and recording artist Ethics and Cocxistcnce Student Fellow Lauren Elson ‘00Jane Sapp celebrates community in the concert “Lift Every and members of the African Dance Club perform a danceVoice: Songs and Stories in Celebration of Coexistence.” that Lauren learned during her internship in The Gambia.

Elise Boulding,peace researcherand friend of theEthics Center

Scott Kepnes,participant inJane Sapp’scommunity-buildingworkshop, enjoys theperformance with hisdaughter.

SocialAnthropologist

Joins thecenter as

Visiting Scholar

Tsehai Berhane-Selassie,an anthropologist originallyfrom Ethiopia, joins theInternational Center forEthics, Justice, and PublicLife for this academic yearas a Visiting Scholar. Dr.Berhane-Selassie receivedher B.A. from Addis AbabaUniversity and her Ph.D. insocial anthropology fromthe University of Oxford.Her areas of specializationinclude the anthropology ofgender; ethnicity and thestate; anthropology ofdevelopment and politicaleconomy; and human rights.During the year she willmake a presentation to theBrandeis community basedon her current research,speak in undergraduateclasses, and participate inevents sponsored by theEthics Center and theBrandeis Initiative inIntercommunal Coexistence.She will also continue workon a book entitled TheEthiopian State: ParadoxicalAutonomy of Ethnicity andGender.

Six Brandeis students under-took internships in the field ofcoexistence during the summerof 1999. The undergraduatestraveled to Argentina, Israel,The Gambia, Bosnia, Grenada,and China, sending frequentnews of their work to the Center.Selections from two studentjournals follow:

Wendi Adelson ‘01 worked inBuenos Aires, Argentina with LaLinea Fundadora de las Madresde Plaza de Mayo. Her goal wasto learn about the effectivenessof women working for justice ingrassroots organizations in theaftermath of military dictator-ship. Wendi discovered that“grief positively focused oneliminating injustice can fuel anentire movement.” She wroteabout a march in Jujuy with theMothers to raise awareness ofthe disappeared in Argentina:“We were about three hundredpeople, accompanied by a bandplaying Latin marching rhythmswith African influence. . .motivating music and fitting tothe environment as we marchedholding photos of the disap-peared and signs demanding jus-tice, alongside the never-endingsugar fields with mountains onall sides.... I definitely realizedthe power of peaceful demonstration

- the value that sharing a com-mon cause, demanding justice,and having others share in yourcause has on personal grief.”

Before traveling to theMiddle East, Tamara Beliakstudied Arabic. Even beforeher arrival in Jerusalem she rec-ognized the key role languagewould play in her coexistencework at MEND, Middle EastNon-violence and Democracy,and Bat Shalom. Throughouther internship she used herability to speak Arabic and herdesire to learn about Palestinianculture to form productive rela-tionships with her colleagues.On one occasion she, “...wentwith Anti-Housing DemolitionGroup [affiliated with BatShalom] to a Palestinian houseinside the borders of Jerusalem.We went to help rebuild ahouse in protest.... The best partis the teamwork. Everyonestands in an assembly linebringing dirt and rocks to thenext person. It was also funnythat the assembly was a towerof Babel. I heard Hebrew,Arabic, English, and German,warning the next pail [wascoming]. We are all from dif-ferent backgrounds but thecommon bond of human rightsconcerns brings us together.”

Human Rights and Conflict Resolution:Reconciling Two Approaches to Coexistence

Faculty Seminar SeriesOn Wednesday, September 22 Professor Martha Minow of Harvard

Law School led the first in a series of faculty seminars designed toengage scholars and practitioners in collaborative inquiry about boththe human rights and the conflict resolution approaches to coexistence.Some thirty-five people participated in the discussion of ProfessorMinow’s subject “Between Vengeance and Forgiveness.”

Five additional seminars are planned for the academic year. Eachwill be led by a distinguished scholar or practitioner in the field ofcoexistence. Recognizing that in many conflict regions advocates ofhuman rights and conflict resolution find themselves at odds, participantsin the seminars will examine the assumptions underlying each approach.Ultimately, the goal is to produce ways of understanding these tensionsthat will strengthen the work of both human rights advocates andconflict resolution practioners.

Faculty and guests of Brandeis University who would like to participatein one or more of the seminars should contact the Ethics Center:78 l-736-8577 or e-mail: ethics @ brandeis.edu.

Dr. Hizkias Assefa, Coordinator,African Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Network;Distinguished Fellow, George Mason University“Doing Justice and Loving Mercy”Part I: The Paradigm of ReconciliationWednesday, Novenzher 17, 1999 4:00-7:00 p.m. (light dinner will he served)Part II: Forgiveness and ImpunityTlzursday, November 18, 1999 4:00-7:00 p.m. (light dinner will he served)

Michael Ignatieff, Historian and Journalist[title to be announced]Mondq, Jcmuary 24, 2000 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Dr. Kevin Clements, Secretary-General, International Alert;former Director, Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution,George Mason University“Conflict Transformation: Twenty-first Century Dilemmas”Mondq, February 14, 2000 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Dr. Uma Narayan, Philosophy Department, Vassar College“Feminism, Human Rights, and Respect for Cultures: Problems andConflicts”Wednesday, March 22, 2000 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Dr. Raouf Mama, Traditional Storyteller from Benin, Africa; MasterTeaching Artist, Connecticut Commission on the Arts; EnglishDepartment, Eastern Connecticut State University“Myth is More Potent than History: Performance and Discussion”April 5, 2000 4:00-6:00 p.nt

Peace and Conflict in Africa:Reflections from an AfricanPeacebuilderA two-part seriesFree and open to the public

1 Conflict in Africa: Causes,Dynamics, and Implicationsthe Emerging Global Order

November 1.5 at 7:00 p.m.

for

Lurias, Hassenfeld Conference Center

2 Patterns of Peace and Peacebuildingin Africa: Lessons and Reflections

Tuesday, November 16 at 7:00 p.m.Lurias, Hassenfeld Conference Center

Relief Workers and Conflict ResolutionFriday, November 19 from 2:00 - 4:00p.m. Heller 334

Doing Justice and Loving Mercy:Lessons from an African PeacebuilderFriday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m.Lurias, Hassenfeld Conference Center.

Sponsored by the Brandeis Initiative inIntercommunal Coexistence. Co-sponsored bythe Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences,African and Afro-American Studies, Peace andConflict Studies, Sustainable InternationalDevelopment, Brandeis Hillel, and the BostonResearch Center for the 21st Century.

The Brandeis Initiative in IntercommunalCoexistence has been made possible by agenerous grant from the Alan B. SlifkaFoundation.

The Ethics Center welcomes Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, an accomplished social worker andsocial psychologist from South Africa, as a VisitingFaculty Associate for the academic year 1999-2000.Ms. Gobodo-Madikizela will bring to the Brandeiscommunity a wealth of experience in the fields ofreconciliation, social psychology, literary studies,gender studies, and politics. A former member ofthe Human Rights Violation Committee of SouthAfrica’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, shewill teach a course in the spring of 2000 calledThe Rupture of Silence.

The new course, which is part of the Initiativein Intercommunal Coexistence, will provide under-graduate and graduate students with an overview ofSouth African history, ethnic composition, and politicalconflict. It will examine closely the narrativetestimony given to the Truth and ReconciliationCommission by victims, perpetrators, and bystandersof apartheid and attempt to set that testimony incontext. The course will explore the nature of memoryand the language of trauma as well as examinetheories arising from other political traumas,particularly the Holocaust.

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Ethics Center Courses at Brand& tiniversitySpring 2000

AAAS 124b: The Rupture of Silence: The Truthand Reconciliation Commission in South AfricaInstructor: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

AMST 186a: Topics in Ethics, Justice, and PublicLife: Literature, Education, and Moral InquiryInstructor: Daniel Terris

LGLS 127b: Law and Letters in AmericanCulture: Rape and the Written WordInstructor: Mary Davis

NEJS 17 1 b: Describing CrueltyInstructor: Kanan Makiya

PAX 186a: Introduction to Inter-communalCoexistenceInstructor: Cynthia Cohen

WMNS 185a: Harmonies and Tensions:Contemporary Issues in Black-Jewish Relationsin the United StatesInstructor: Jyl Lynn Felman

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