CURRICULUM RESOURCES
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION*
curriculum@educatorstostopthewar.org
Course description: Rhetoric is our most urgent borderline. This course concerns the increasingly crucial role of rhetoric in understanding, analyzing, and mediating conflicts associated with war, trauma, and terrorism. We will examine specific war and terrorism events rhetorically, analyze rhetorical discourse of terrorists and those who seek them, and cultivate rhetoric as "border discipline" wielded in radically divergent ways by the most recent historical and contemporary architects of war and peace. We will not limit our study to U.S. politics, events, and military campaigns; rather, we will situate war and terror within a global context and explore rhetorical dimensions of war-mongering, dissension, "border crackdowns," scapegoating, refugees (all displaced peoples, i.e., boat people and those in onshore detention camps), rhetorical religious fundamentalism, the rhetoric of savagery, and other political, religious, economic, ethical, historical, psychological, and sociological spheres of the rhetorical discourse, and material conditions, of war and terrorism.
Rhetoric of Peace and Conflict
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to examine war, peace, and conflict as rhetorical phenomena, in other words, as phenomena that are shaped in part by symbolic action. Theories of war, peace, and international conflict will be examined alongside historical documents in order to discover rhetorical processes at work. Special emphasis will be placed on recent historical events. The current U.S.-led "war on terrorism" will be examined as a case study in the rhetorical construction of conflict.
Course Description: As we enter
the 21st century the age old challenge of building a peaceful, just
world and ending war and varieties of violent conflict still confronts
us. One path to creating a culture of peace is through learning about
the nature of war and violence, peace and justice and the
interrelationships among these. This course contributes to such a path
for peace by dealing with perspectives on women and their connections to
peace work, war and militarism. In addition, we will focus upon
historical and contemporary examples of the impact of war upon women and
of women's peace activism in a global context.
Categories
of online syllabi are Development Theory, Economic and Social
History, Environmental Economics, Gender, Race and/or Class, Growth
Theory, International Economics and Globalization, Labor Economics,
Microeconomics, Political Economy and Radical Economics, Poverty,
Regional Economics,
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 2003
This briefing booklet considers the legal, moral, and strategic arguments related to President George W. Bush's threats to initiate a preemptive war against Iraq, with or without an eventual authorization by the UN, as well as the US Government approach to nuclear weapons policy.
(http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/resources/publications/2003_01_iraq-reader.pdf)
Teaching Peace - A guide for the Classroom and Everyday Life
Poets Against War
Poets Against the War serves poets in various ways, including publishing poetry via its website, providing information and resources to aid poets in creating strong networks and taking action in opposition to war.uses.
Artists Against War
Artist For Peace, Justice and Civil Liberties
Useful sources for art and music for class discussion and analysis.
Theater Against War
An international network of theater artists responding to the United States' ongoing "War on Terror", aggressive and unilateral foreign policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties in the US and throughout the world.
Union of Concerned Scientist
Program Overview - Missile Defense, Nuclear Terrorism, Nuclear Weapons, Space Weapons, U.S.-China Relations, International Cooperation, SecurityNet and Archive. A key source for colleagues in science and engineering.
This short resource list incorporates suggestions from many Economy Connection members, some of whom have written articles themselves. The categories overlap, but are divided according to their main emphasis. Most are from a Left point of view, but not all.
Papers, Working Papers, Briefings, Reports and Fact Sheets, etc.
"Due to the large numbers of such works ... provideS links to a number of centers that turn out heterodox economic studies on, among other topics, globalization, neoliberalism, imperialism, capitalism, alternatives to capitalism, the environment and sustainable development, poverty, inequality, welfare, health, studies in race, class and gender, etc."
Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict A Primer
The IMF and the Future of Iraq
Institute for Policy Studies: The Institute for Policy Studies is the nation’s oldest multi-issue progressive think tank. Since 1963, the Institute has worked with social movements to forge viable and sustainable policies to promote democracy, justice, human rights, and diversity. IPS played key roles in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s, the women’s and environmental movements in the 1970s, the anti-apartheid and anti-intervention movements in the 1980s, and the fair trade and environmental justice movements today.
See Phyllis
Bennis,
Understanding the U.S.UNDERSTANDING THE U.S.-IRAQ CRISIS:
A Primer January
2003
Introduction: Margaret Power [MS Word format]
The American Prison and the
Normalization of Torture: H. Bruce Franklin [MS Word format]
Nicaragua: A Tortured Nation:
Richard Grossman [MS Word format]
The Tiger Cages of Con Son:
Don Luce [MS Word format]
Guantánamo Prison: Jane
Franklin [MS Word format]
Torture of Prisoners in U.S.
Custody: Marjorie Cohn [MS Word format]
The Abu Ghraib Scandal and
the U.S. Occupation of Iraq: John Cox [MS Word format]
Staughton Lynd, ed., WE WON'T GO: Narratives of Resistance to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the 1990-91 US-Iraq War, and the 2003 US-Iraq War, HAW Pamphlet 2 (May 2004). Available in HTML (better for online viewing) and Word and PDF (better for printing).
Stuart Schaar and Marvin E. Gettleman, Brief Bibliography of English Language Sources and Studies on the Middle East and Muslim South Asia, HAW Pamphlet 1 (revised edition, September 2004). Available in HTML (better for online viewing) and Word and PDF (better for printing).
Teachers Against War
This site is a resource bank for teachers -- in all disciplines and at all levels -- who wish to address issues of war and peace with their students. For the time being, we are primarily addressing the Iraq crisis, but we also wish to collect and publicize materials about other conflicts.
The Military Out of
Our Schools Program
CCCO's Military Out of Our
Schools Campaign works with people like you, local members of
communities nationwide, to
restrict recruiter's access to schools and gain equal access to talk
about the realities of military life and present alternatives to
military service .
GI Rights Hotline
A network of nonprofit,
nongovernmental organizations who provide information to service members
about military discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other
civil rights.
Center On Conscience and
War
The Center on Conscience & War (CCW),
formerly the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious
Objectors (NISBCO), was formed in 1940 by an association of religious
bodies. CCW works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious
objectors. The Center is committed to supporting all those who question
participation in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent
residents, documented or undocumented immigrants citizens in other
countries. Public Education and Outreach provides information on the
theological, historical and legal dimensions of conscientious objection
and military conscription;
- providing information on how to document one's convictions as a conscientious objector;
- providing draft and military counselor training;
- alerting the public to proposed changes in regulations and legislation affecting conscientious objectors;
- serving as an international resource center for documents relating to military conscription and conscientious objection;
- assisting youth to decide what they believe about participation in war and military service;
- documenting and reporting human rights violations arising from military service and conscientious objection.
AFSC looks at "Iraq Aftermath: The Human Face of War."
International Justice and Law
General
Documentary Resource: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Documents in
Law, History and Diplomacy
The Human Rights Network
(requires FLASH) (an HTML version is available).
The University of Minnesota
Human Rights Library
Case Study: The Russell Tribunal and International War Crimes.
The International Court of Criminal
Justice
Iraq
Phyllis Bennis,
Understanding
the U.S. Iraq Crisis: A Primer
"The CPA Official Story"
("Due to the dissolution of the CPA, this site for the CPA-Iraq
Coalition will no longer be updated. It will remain available for
historical purposes until June 30, 2005. Current information for the new
sovereign Iraq may be found on the U.S. Embassy-Iraq Web site at:The
Story from the U.S. Embassy)
Informed Comment - Thoughts on the
Middle East, History, and Religion by Juan
Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
Learn About Iraq -
Webpage of the American Friends Service Committee
Reports from Iraq -
Occupation Watch
Research on War and Occupation -
Iraqbodycount
Electoniciraq
*Compiled by David Applebaum, Rowan University.