February 24, 2003  Jim McClellan of the British daily The Guardian interviewed James Der Derian of the Watson Institute's InfoTechWarPeace Project, on February 20, 2003,
to introduce an online special on the internet's role in the build-up to war in Iraq. Professor Der Derian, a prominent expert on information warfare, is the principal investigator
of the Watson Institute's Information Technology, War, and Peace Project, a research initiative of its Global Security Program. McClellan's article, entitled "War on the
Web," is available on the Guardian website at http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,898661,00.html.

In addition, Professor Der Derian was interviewed
on February 24, 2003, on the BBC World program,
concerning infowar and Iraq. That broadcast was
aired between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/
world_today_vote.shtml?configfile=vote2.xml.
Professor Der Derian will also discuss the future of
diplomacy on the Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ)
program, Odyssey, this Thursday, February 27, from 12–1 p.m. (central time), 1–2 p.m. (eastern time). Visit http://www.wbez.org/odyssey to listen to the program.

InfoTechWarPeace investigates the effects of information technology on traditional statecraft and new forms of networked global politics. Its goal is to produce the kind of networked knowledge, critical thinking, and ethical sensibility that will help raise public awareness and inform new policies on global technological issues in war and peace.

Already in October 2001 the Project produced an InfoIntervention on Netwar. Der Derian then noted,
"If Vietnam was a war waged in the living-rooms of America, the first, and most likely the last battle of the counter/terror war will be on the Global Net. The task is to get up to
network speed, yet maintain a human perspective." The InfoTechWarPeace site (http://www.infopeace.org) was launched shortly after September 11, 2001, and has recently been receiving 50,000+ hits a month.

For more information, contact Annick T. R. Wibben at Annick_Wibben@brown.edu or by phone at 401.863.7431