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04.24.06 Writing in Exile: Shahriar Mandanipour Talk on April 23 - The <a href="http://www.brown.edu/web/gab3/view.php?id=332">Brown Persian Club</a> presented a talk by the 2006 <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Literary_Arts/IWP/index.html">International Writers Project</a> Fellow <a href="http://www.watsoninstitute.org/contacts_detail.cfm?id=642">Shahriar Mandanipour</a> on <strong>Sunday, April 23,</strong> at 8:00 p.m., in Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House, College Green. Mandanipour, an award-winning Iranian author, is the third fellow since the program was begun in 2004, each of whom has been in residence at the Watson Institute. The Institute cosponsored this event.
10.22.04 Position Available: Administrative Assistant - Position Summary: Provides general administrative support to faculty and staff, including serving as first point of contact for calls and visitors to the Institute.
08.02.04 Position Announcement: Postdoctoral Researcher - The Global Environment Program at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies invites applications to join the Middle East Environmental Futures Project (MEEF), a multinational, interdisciplinary environmental research effort bringing together over 40 environmental scholars and NGO officials from Israel, Palestine and North America.
07.21.04 Watson Scholars of the Environment Receive UNEP Certification - Eleven Watson International Scholars of the Environment received joint certificates from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Watson Institute on May 12, after they successfully completed the intensive semester program, which engages practitioners from developing countries in environmental science, technology, and policy approaches vital to problem solving in their fieldwork
07.21.04 Better Late than Never! - While the rest of the 2004 Watson International Scholars of the Environment arrived at the Watson Institute in January, Syamak M. Moattari, managing director of the nongovernmental organization Green Front of Iran, was still in Tehran, awaiting his visa from the U.S. authorities.
05.06.04 Position Available: Web Administrator - Manage the design, development, and updating of the Watson Institute web site. Design, build, and administer databases.
03.11.04 Watson International Scholars of the Environment: Visions and Voices - The Watson International Scholars of the Environment will present "Visions and Voices for Rethinking Sustainable Development" in three sessions on March 4, March 11, and March 18.
10.23.03 Call for Applications: Ralph Bunche United Nations Internship Grant Competition - As part of the commemoration of the Ralph Bunche Centenary, the Watson Institute has arranged a three-month internship for a graduating Brown University senior in the United Nation's Department of Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit.
10.20.03 Position Available: Financial Assistant - Provide financial support for the Department Manager and Principal Investigators.
10.17.03 Position Available: Administrative Coordinator - Position coordinates financial administrative operations for 1) The Center for Latin American Studies and 2) Watson Institute's Political Economy and Development Research Program.
09.05.03 Position Available: Office Assistant - Provide administrative support for the Choices Education Program.
08.18.03 Call for Applications: Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program - The Watson International Scholars of the Environment are currently accepting applications to their 2004 program.
06.24.03 Position Available: Academic Programs Coordinator - Coordinates all administrative functions for four instructional programs.
05.04.03 Watson Institute Hosts UN Security Council Members for Sanctions Reform Workshop - Representatives from all 15 current members of the United Nations Security Council attended a May 2–3 workshop at Brown University. The Watson Institute hosted the event, which reviewed sanctions reform processes developed during the past five years and provided an off-site setting for discussion among Mission staff, the UN Secretariat staff, and sanctions experts.
04.30.03 Watson Institute, Fletcher School, UNDP Collaborate on Afghanistan Workshop: April 30–May 2 - An international workshop, "Justice and Local Government in War-Torn Societies: Afghanistan and Beyond," will commence at Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with an April 30 public panel from 3:00–4:30 p.m., and continue with a May 2 keynote from 5:00-6:45 p.m., featuring David Rieff, author of the provocative critique of humanitarianism in A Bed for the Night and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Note change of keynote presenter and keynote date from the original webposting, which stated the Hon. Haneef Atmar on April 30.)
04.25.03 Dennis Ross, Former Chief Negotiator for US Middle East Peace Team, to Speak at Brown: April 29 - Ambassador Dennis Ross, the United States' chief Middle East negotiator in both the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, will speak at Brown University on Tuesday, April 29, 8:00 p.m., Salomon Center 101, College Green, Brown University.
04.25.03 Brown Journal of World Affairs' Former Editors Gather for 10th Anniversary - Former editors of the student-run Brown Journal of World Affairs will gather to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication on April 25 at 4:00 p.m. in the Watson Institute'Joukowsky Forum.
04.21.03 Michael Doyle, Special Advisor to Kofi Annan, to Speak about Peace Building Strategies on April 21 - The Watson Institute for International Studies presents the Directors Lecture Series on Contemporary International Affairs, "Strategies of Peace Building," with Michael Doyle, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
04.18.03 International Human Rights Advocates to Explore Monitoring and Postconflict Transitions: April 22 - Jiri Dienstbier, Antonio Donini, Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro, and Xu Wenli—human rights and humanitarian action advocates—will participate in a public panel presentation on Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 5:30 p.m., in the Watson Institute's Joukowsky Forum.
04.16.03 Chung-in Moon to Address North Korean Nuclear Crisis on April 16 - The Fourth Annual Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture
04.07.03 Tinker Field Research Grants 2003 - Now accepting applications for the Field Research Grants from Tinker Foundation for research in Latin America and Iberia.
04.07.03 Providence Journal Bulletin: Abbott Gleason— "U.S. War Against Liberals Goes Global" - Abbott Gleason, "U.S. War Against Liberals Goes Global," an oped in the Providence Journal Bulletin, April 7, 2003.
04.07.03 Providence Journal Bulletin: Eric Berman—"Troubling Questions about an African Coup" - Eric Berman, "Troubling Questions about an African Coup," an oped in the Providence Journal Bulletin, April 7, 2003.
04.03.03 James Der Derian Comments on Virtual War Gaming in New York Times - James Der Derian, principal investigator for the InfoTechWarPeace Project, is qoted in the April 3, 2003, New York Times, Circuits Section, on virtual war games. See "More Than Just a Game, But How Close to Reality?," by Amy Harmon.
04.02.03 Brian O'Neill Coauthors Study on EU Population Shifts - Brian O'Neill, assistant professor (research) at the Watson Institute, has just coauthored a paper on "Europe's Population at a Turning Point," in the journal Science (vol. 299, 28 March 2003).
04.02.03 Neta Crawford Examines Preemptive Doctrine and Justification for Military Action - Neta Crawford, associate professor (research) at the Watson Institute and principal investigator for the Global Ethics Project, recently published two articles in the Boston Review and Newsday.
04.01.03 Neta Crawford Participates in Children of War Program - The Watson Institute's Neta Crawford will appear tonight, Tuesday, April 1, with several well-known activitists and theatre celebrities at an event entitled "Children of War: The Fact of Conflict in Iraq," 7:30 p.m., Beneficent Church, 300 Weybosset Street, Providence. For more information, call 401.965.0780.
03.27.03 Brazilian Human Rights Leader Joins Other Human Rights Advocates in Residence at Watson Institute - The Hon. Paulo Sèrgio Pinheiro, Brazil's former secretary of state for human rights and an international leader for human rights, is a visiting professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies during the spring of 2003.
03.26.03 InfoTechWarPeace Posts InfoIntervention on Embedded War Media - The InfoTechWarPeace Project has just posted an addition to its growing library of "911 InfoInterventions."
03.26.03 RI High School Students Head to State Capitol for International Civic Education Program - Rhode Island High school students will travel to the State Capitol in Providence on Monday, March 31, 2003, to debate critical international concerns on the environment, immigration, trade, conflict resolution, and the role of the U.S. in the world. Prominent in their deliberations will be the war in Iraq. The students are engaged in the fourth annual Rhode Island Capitol Forum on America's Future cosponsored by Global Rhode Island and the RI Secretary of State's Office. Senator Lincoln Chafee, former Ambassador William Twaddell, Mr. William Shuey of the International Institute of Rhode Island, Secretary of State Matthew Brown, and Dr. Richard Nuccio of Salve Regina's Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy will address the students.
03.26.03 Brown News Service: Brown to Host ASEH Conference, Pulitzer winner Jared Diamond - Brown University will host the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, titled "Frontiers in Environmental History: Mainstreaming the 'Marginal,'" March 26–30, 2003, at the Providence Biltmore Hotel. See Brown News Service release, "Brown to Host ASEH Conference."
03.26.03 Brown News Service: "A Time of Great Consequence"—23rd Brown/Providence Journal Conference - The 23rd Brown/Providence Journal Conference, "A Time of Great Consequence: America and the World," will be held from March 30 through April 4, 2003, featuring leading analysts, policymakers, and cultural experts, who will consider the U.S. role and responsibility "as the world's last superpower."
03.25.03 Brown University Inaugurates International Writers Fellowships - Brown University announces and seeks applications for an innovative new writing program—The International Writers Project Fellowship. The one-year resident Fellowship aims to support international creative writers—fiction, dramatists, and poets—who risk danger within their home country for artistic free expression. In addition, the program each year will feature a speaker series focused on human rights and free expression globally and a festival highlighting the particular national artistic and political identity of the resident writer. The Fellowship is a partnership between Brown's Creative Writing Program and the Watson Institute for International Studies. The William H. Donner Foundation is funding the program.

The application deadline is April 15, 2003.
For more information, contact Professor Robert Coover; Robert_Coover@brown.edu; 401.863.1152.
03.25.03 Postition Available: Associate Director - For more information, please see the listing on the Brown University Human Resources website.
03.18.03 High School Students Head to State Capitols for International Civic Education Program - High school students from Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Utah will travel to their respective state capitols between March 21 and April 18 to debate critical international concerns on the environment, immigration, trade, conflict resolution, and the role of the U.S. in the world. Prominent in their deliberations will be the looming war with Iraq. The students are engaged with these issues in the classroom as part of the Capitol Forum on America's Future, designed by Brown University's Choices for the 21st Century Education Program.
03.17.03 September 11 Digital Archive Selects InfoTechWarPeace Website as "One of the Best on the Internet" - The September 11 Digital Archive, organized by the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, highlights InfoTechWarPeace website in its indexed and annotated guide to websites, naming it "one of the best on the internet."
03.14.03 Choices Curriculum Unit on Iraq Crisis Cited in New York Times - The Choices for the 21st Century Education Program's online mini-unit, "Teaching with the News: Crisis with Iraq," was cited in a March 7, 2003, article in the New York Times, "Schools Seek Balance as Students Join War Debate," by Sam Dillon.
03.11.03 March 11 Event at Brown Probes Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Resolution - "Israelis and Palestinians: How Will They Make Peace?" is the theme of a March 11 event at Brown University, featuring leading experts on the region. The program considers the history of the conflict, an update on increased violence in the last year, and what, if any, resolutions are surfacing to end the crisis.
03.10.03 March 14 Workshop: Democracy, Bosnia-Style? - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: Watson Instiutute, 111 Thayer Street, Joukowsky Forum.
03.07.03 Brazil's Former President Cardoso To Be Based at Watson Institute - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the former president of Brazil will be Brown University's new professor-at-large, based at the Watson Institute.