UConn Library
Human Rights Archives
Zakes Mda, a South African novelist and playwright, will give the Visiting Gladstein Professor of Human Rights Annual Lecture on “The Fiction of Reconciliation.”
4 pm at Konover Auditorium
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
A reception will follow
The ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PEACE EDUCATION is now accessible.
http://www.tc.edu/centers/epe/
The online Encyclopedia of Peace Education provides a comprehensive overview of scholarly developments in the field to date as well as new insights from across the globe from various actors involved in advancing peace education. This online resource serves as a living reference guide that traces the history and emergence of the field, highlights foundational concepts, contextualizes peace education practice across international and disciplinary borders, and suggests new directions for peace educators. From core conceptual perspectives to the moral and spiritual foundations of the field to the role of the United Nations, the Encyclopedia grounds peace education in a solid theoretical and practical framework through the writings of some of the field’s most renowned scholars and its emerging voices. This online resource targets undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars and practitioners working in international and non-governmental organizations in the field of peace education.
Present entries include:
* A History of Peace Education in the U.S. (Aline Stomfay-Stitz)
* Access to Peace Education (Surya Nath Prasad)
* American Friends Service Committee and Peace Education (Charles F. Howlett)
* American School Peace League and the First Peace Studies Curriculum (Charles F. Howlett)
* Andrew Carnegie’s Educational Efforts For World Peace (Charles F. Howlett)
* Baha’i Faith and Peace Education (Marie Gervais)
* Brookwood Labor College and Peace Education (Charles F. Howlett)
* Caring and Peace Education (Nel Noddings)
* Coexistence Education (Daniel Bar-Tal)
* Comparative and International Education and Peace Education (Robin J.
Burns)
* Conceptual Perspectives in Peace Education (Magnus Haavelsrud)
* Countering Militarism through Peace Education (Carl Mirra)
* ‘Critical’ Peace Education (Monisha Bajaj)
* Elise Boulding and Peace Education (Mary Lee Morrison)
* Environmental Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (Patricia Mische)
* Form and Content of Peace Education (Johan Galtung)
* Futures Education (David Hicks)
* Global Citizenship Education (Lynn Davies)
* History of Peace Education (Ian Harris)
* Human Rights Education (Felisa Tibbitts)
* International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) & Community-Based Institutes on Peace Education (CIPE) (Tony Jenkins)
* Islam and Peace Education (Mustafa Köylü)
* Jane Addams and the Promotion of Peace and Social Justice Among the Masses (Charles F. Howlett)
* John Dewey and Peace Education (Charles F. Howlett)
* Learning to Communicate Peacefully (Francisco Gomes de Matos)
* Learning to Live Together (Margaret Sinclair)
* Maria Montessori’s Contribution to Peace Education (Cheryl Duckworth)
* Merle Curti and the Development of Peace History in American Thought and Culture (Charles F. Howlett)
* Multiculturalism: Critical Reflections (Zvi Bekerman)
* Nonviolence and Peace Education (Barry L. Gan)
* Paulo Freire and Peace Education (Lesley Bartlett)
* Peace History Society (Charles F. Howlett)
* Philosophy of Peace Education (James Page)
* Schools, Violence, and Peace Education (Clive Harber)
* The Moral and Spiritual Foundations of Peace Education (Dale T. Snauwaert)
* The United Nations and Peace Education (James S. Page)
* UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet) and Peace Education (Lynn Davies)
* Unity-Based Peace Education (H.B. Danesh)
* Youth and Peacebuilding (Roshan Danesh)
The Human Rights Reception will take place on Tuesday, September 23 from 4-6PM at the Dodd Center Lounge.
Namaste, the student run human rights journal at UConn, is currently looking for an editor. This is a great opportunity, especially for those interested in the position and are looking for a HR internship for the Spring semester. Namaste is also now accepting essays, artwork, poetry, creative fiction, photography and much more for the next issue of the journal. This is an excellent opportunity to get published as a college student and a great resume builder! If you would like to learn more about the journal or submit your work, please contact Namaste at namastejournal@gmail.com or join the Namaste Journal on Facebook.
The Global Health and Human Rights Film Series is showing A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary about five women with obstetric fistula in Ethiopia.
The dinner, film, and panel discussion will take place on Thursday, October 2, 5:00-8:00PM at the Patterson Auditorium at the UConn Medical School Campus in Farmington, CT.
Dear All,
My apologies for the delay in updates, but there has been a flurry of activity lately with the start of the academic year and little time left for writing!
Here is a brief update:
The UConn Libraries are currently revising their strategic plan, so if you have comments about ways in which the library can improve, things you like, things you don’t like, please let us know! Feel free to leave your comments here on this blog!
Also, the Human Rights Film Series is kicking off this week! The 2008-2009 theme is, “A Cinematic Exploration through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” in celebration of the 60th Annivesary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-2008
The film series is sponsored by the Human Rights Initiative
Text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Film Series Poster (Adobe PDF; 148 KB)
All films are free, open to the public, and held at 4:00 pm in the Konover Auditorium at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
Article 1: Freedom and Dignity
Film: The Kite Runner (2007)
Chronicles the lives of two boys, Amir & Hassan, in a divided Afghanistan on the verge of war.
For more information, go to the Dodd Center’s website, or see the film series’s Facebook page.
Summer is a wonderful time here in the archives. Since there are fewer instruction sessions to teach and reference questions to answer, it means that I am able to spend more time processing archival collections, and making materials available for researchers.
Here are just a couple of new collections at the Dodd Center which pertain to human rights themes:
A DVD-ROM of Basic Documents and Case Law from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
The DVD-ROM was compiled by the ICTR legal library in 2007 and contains 4,262 searchable PDF documents, including Case Law Decisions, Orders, Indictments, and Judgements; ICTR Basic Documents, Rules of Procedure and Statutes; UN Documents on Human Rights in Rwanda, ICTR Annual Reports, and documents regarding the operation, finances, and personnel of the ICTR.
The Poras Collection of Vietnam War Memorabilia
This collection contains materials from the American Vietnam War era, including American and Vietnamese propaganda, posters from the pro-war and anti-war movements, as well as artifacts from American soldiers who served in the war.
A lot of human rights themed books have been purchased for Homer Babbidge Library in the past few months. This entry deals with books on war crimes and Nuremberg. Check back for lists on other topics.
DOCUMENTS ON THE TOKYO INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL: CHARTER, INDICTMENT AND JUDGMENTS, edited by Robert Cryer. Oxford, 2008.
LAW, WAR AND CRIME: WAR CRIMES TRIALS AND THE REINVENTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, by Gerry J. Simpson. Cambridge, 2007.
MISSING ITALIAN NUREMBERG: CULTURAL ANMESIA AND POSTWAR POLITICS, by Michelle Battini. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE: THE TOKYO TRIAL AND THE NUREMBERG LEGACY, by Madoka Futamura. Routledge, 2008.
NUREMBERG LEGACY: HOW THE NAZI WAR CRIMES TRIALS CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY, by Norbert Ehrenfreund. Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE NUREMBERG TRIAL, edited by Guenael Mettraux. Oxford, 2008.
ATROCITIES ON TRIAL: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF PROSECUTING WAR CRIMES, by Patricia Herberer. University of Nebraska, 2008.
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL: A REAPPRAISAL, by Neil Boister. Oxford, 2008.
TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL: THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR II, by Yuma Totani. Harvard East Asian Series, 2008.
CIVIL WAR AND THE RULE OF LAW: SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, edited by Agnes Hurwitz. Lynne Rienner, 2008.
NO EASY FIX: GLOBAL RESPONSES TO INTERNAL WARS AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, by M. Patricia Marchak. McGill/Queens University, 2008.
HUMANITARIAN OCCUPATION, by Gregory H. Fox. Cambridge, 2008.
I’ll be posting more new book lists in the next few days.
The Romano Human Rights Digital Photograph Collection now contains 23 new images of from cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast. The images are available to UConn students, faculty and staff through HuskyCT. Please contact the curator with your NetID to request access.
More information, as well as PDF versions of Robin Romano’s lectures on child labor, are available on the Human Rights Institute’s website.
Notes and materials from the symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas Into Practice,” hosted by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in March 2008, and co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network, are now available on the Dodd Center’s website. Click here for minutes, notes, and outcomes.
A recurring theme of the symposium was the need for increased communication and collaboration among archivists working with human rights materials. To help meet this need, the University of Connecticut and symposium participants have initiated several projects:
The Human Rights Archives Listserv is open to anyone working with human rights collections, or interested in human rights and archives. The listserv is hosted by the University of Connecticut. The link to subscribe is here.
The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, The Human Rights Institute and The UNESCO Chair in Comparative Human Rights invite you to join us for a talk by Thulani Mabaso.
“Struggle and Forgiveness in the South African Anti-apartheid Movement”
A Conversation with Thulani Mabaso
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Public Lounge
Monday, April 21, 2008
4:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Thulani Mabaso will speak on his experiences in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and his imprisonment at Robben Island. Mabaso was imprisoned in 1984 for sabotage and was a contemporary of Nelson Mandela, Patrick Chamusso, and other important figures jailed during the struggles against apartheid. Originally from Vryheid in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, Mabaso currently resides in the township of Khayaletsha in Cape Town, and tells his story on a regular basis as a tour guide at the Robben Island Prison Museum.
For more information, please visit the Dodd Center’s website.
The Dodd Center has a number of archival collections relating to South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. They include:
African National Congress Collection (a small collection of memorabilia collected as part of the UConn ANC Partnership in 1999)
African National Congress Oral History Transcripts Collection (133 transcripts of oral history interviews with leading anti-apartheid activists conducted between 2000 and 2006.)
Impact Visuals Photographic Collection (photographs and slides which document the anti-apartheid movement and 1994 democratic elections in South Africa)
Tambo (Oliver) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, Oliver Tambo; original documents are located at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa)
Xuma (A.B.) Papers (microfilm copies of the papers of anti-apartheid activist, A.B. Xuma; original documents are located at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa)