Dear
Peace Studies Colleague:
We are now accepting student applications for The Tenth Annual Institute in
Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence: An Experiential Inquiry into
Peace Action. Please note the current theme is now a case study focus
on peace movement.
This combined seminar and internship project features work with and
field research on:
- The Hague Agenda for Peace
- Abolition 2000
- the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- the UN Year/Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the
World's Children
- Global Action to Prevent War
- The International Action Network on Small Arms.
Each student will intern with a member organization of the New Century
Peace Leadership Project, a coalition that advocates and supports
disarmament, demilitarization, nonviolent conflict resolution, and the
protection of human rights in peace and security.
Please also note that the internships offer a $1,000 stipend (minimum)
to each student. Additional funds for travel and living expenses may be
available.
We would appreciate your distributing the information which follows to
your students.
For peace and justice,
Dale Bryan
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Assistant
Director
Experiential Learning Coordinator
Peace and Justice Studies Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies
109 Eaton
Hall,
Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
phone: 617-627-2261 fax:
617-627-3032
email: <dbryan@tufts.edu>
http://ase.tufts.edu/pjs
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A Project of Peace and Justice Studies
in collaboration with The New Century Leadership Project
The 10th Annual
Institute in Social Movements
and Strategic Nonviolence
An Experiential Inquiry Into Peace Action
May 24 - August 4, 2000
The Institute
The institute will explore both the limits and potential of strategic
nonviolence in peace movement, in particular, and the prevailing social
science theories about social movements, generally. To more fully
accomplish its objectives, the institute provides internships at
organizations advocating social change and public agencies implementing
policy on key peace and security issues. This intensive action-learning
program includes a seminar exploring academic analyses, social movement
theory, nonviolence, strategies for social change, and participants'
internship experiences.
Topics To Be Explored:
- social movements and social forces of change
- theory and principles of nonviolence in the work of Gandhi, King, and
Sharp
- transnational mobilization, globalization, and culture of peace
- The Hague Agenda for Peace, UN Year/Decade for a Culture of Peace and
Nonviolence for the World's Children, Global Action to Prevent War, The
International Network on Small Arms, Abolition 2000, and the
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Who May Apply
Juniors and seniors enrolled in peace studies and conflict resolution
programs are especially encouraged to attend. Students in international
relations, women's studies, or one of the social sciences would also
find the institute useful. Master's candidates will be considered.
Academic Credit
Participants may earn two Tufts course credits (equivalent to eight
semester-hour credits elsewhere) for the seminar and internship.
Completion of the seminar for academic credit is required; credit for
the internship is optional.
Cost
$2,370 for seminar and internship (2 credits), or $1,760 for
seminar
(credit) and internship (audit); plus $40 Summer School registration
fee. Tuition is due at the time of registration.
Stipends and Scholarships
All institute participants will receive a $1,000 minimum stipend as
compensation for internship responsibilities. Additional stipend and
travel scholarships may become available. Stipends (and scholarships)
will be paid during the institute.
How to Apply
Complete the attached application form and mail the requisite supporting
information to the Peace and Justice Studies office no later than April
15, 2000 (postmarked). Materials received after that date will be
reviewed on a space-available basis. Interviews will begin upon receipt
of all material.
Internships Available
Each participant will intern twenty-five hours weekly with a NCPLP
member organization. NCPLP advocates and supports disarmament,
demilitarization, nonviolent conflict resolution, and the protection of
human rights in peace and security. Placements offer leadership
development opportunities among strategic decision-making, outreach,
mobilization, research, and coalition-building efforts. Internships are
available with the following groups:
American Friends Service Committee ? to assist the Latin America Action
Program in challenging increased US military involvement in Colombia and
the Andean region, in supporting coalition work for Jubilee 2000's
cancellation of foreign debt of the poorest countries in the world, and
in monitoring congressional legislation on US immigration policies.
Boston Mobilization for Survival ? to assist the Director in organizing
the Campaign for the Iraqi People toward ending economic sanctions
against Iraq, and in presenting workshops on organizing and leadership
development.
Cambridge Peace Commission ? to assist the Director in coordinating a
summer project for a multi-racial team of high school students engaged
in dialogue on issues of race, class, gender, and violence, and building
community and organizing on issues including sweatshops, death penalty
and disarmament.
Institute for Defense & Disarmament Studies - to help update,
illustrate, and expand a web site covering recent developments in
armaments, military spending, arms control, armed conflict, and conflict
resolution.
Massachusetts Peace Action ? to assist in the development and
implementation of educational efforts in two areas: on globalization and
US intervention policy and international peace keeping; and weapons
trade at home and abroad, both in coalition with multi-racial youth
groups in Boston.
Project on Defense Alternatives - to assist in the development,
updating, and promotion of PDA's several Web sites that provide
extensive collections of critical perspectives on U.S. military policy
and strategy to tens of thousands of scholars and activists world-wide.
A project of the Commonwealth Institute.
Women's Action for New Directions ? to assist the Director in
galvanizing activists and women state legislators to work for
disarmament, nuclear abolition, and ending a culture of violence and
militarism through redirecting excessive military spending to human and
environmental needs.
World Federalist Association of New England ? to assist the Director in
mobilizing members and other community activists both in advocacy of the
institutions, laws and policies needed to establish a democratic world
federation - an essential foundation for a lasting culture of peace ?
and in promoting The Hague Agenda for Peace.
Additional sites may be added. Check our web site for updates and for
more complete descriptions of internship responsibilities.
"For the experience of in-depth work with an organization, and for the
worth of in-depth theoretical analysis that provides a constructive
critique of that work, this program is good for anyone who wants to
understand and/or join the ranks of those working for progressive social
change."
Ginny Hamilton, Tufts University student, summer 1991
Faculty
Dale Bryan, Institute Director, is Assistant Director of the Peace and
Justice Studies program, and Experiential Learning Coordinator of the
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Tufts University. For sixteen
years he has directed the PJS internship component, and designed
service-learning and experiential-education projects.
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"Now I am a true believer in experiential education! Academics and
activism are not mutually exclusive, as I previously thought. Being able
to examine my social justice work in the light of theory and history has
helped me tenfold in my future work."
Christine Leaño, Yale University student, summer 1996
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"The institute served as a vehicle for change in my life. The
program
baptized me in social movement fire and renewed in me a spirit for
addressing the social ills of society."
D'Vell M. Garrison, Howard University student, summer 1993
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"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence by
attending conferences you practice it on the picket lines."
Cesar Chavez
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"World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor
unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin
anew."
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The institute will meet on the Tufts campus in Medford, Massachusetts, a
few minutes from downtown Boston and many points of interest. The MBTA
Red Line stop is a short walk away, and Harvard Square can be easily
reached by bus or subway. Cape Cod, Plymouth, the Berkshires, Newport,
R.I., and southern New Hampshire and Maine, are all a day trip away by
car.
Housing, Meals, Campus Facilities
Participants who require housing during the institute can reserve a room
in the summer residence hall for $916 for the ten weeks. Meals may be
purchased in several campus dining facilities. While on campus,
participants will have full campus privileges, including use of the
libraries, recreational facilitates, swimming pool, and dining halls.
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Application Form: Institute in Social Movements and Strategic
Nonviolence
Name:________________Birthdate:____________Soc. Sec. #____-____-_____
Current year in school:_______________________School:________________
Current Address:_____________________________________________________
Current Phone: (_____)_______-_______Permanent Phone:(____)__________
Permanent Address:___________________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________________________
Major/Program:_______________________________________________________
Please indicate your 1st and 2nd choice among the available internship
placements:
1st_________________________________2nd______________________________
Along with a transcript, resumé, and two letters of recommendation (one
academic, one employment or activism related), please send a 1-2 page
statement that mentions: your interest in the institute; current
academic interests; activism or service experience (if any); reasons for
your first and second choices, as well as interest in others; courses
completed that relate to social movements, nonviolence, and peace and
human rights issues; and travel scholarship needs, if any.
Check here if you want academic credit for the internship.
Check here if you will require campus housing.
Please return no later than April 15, 2000 (postmarked) to:
Dale Bryan, Assistant Director, Peace and Justice Studies, 109 Eaton
Hall, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. By fax: (617)627-3032