Dear All,

Gutten Hagen! "From: "Jay Bernstein, Ph. D."
<libraryofsocialscience@earthlink.net> Subject: Announcing Symposium on the
Psychology of War Announcing the Library of Social Science Symposium on the
Psychological Interpretation of War, January 15-17, 2004, New York City

The phenomenon of warfare is under-theorized to the extent that it is a
virtual blank spot in social theory, despite that fact that war has
shaped the course of history. Rather than interpreting the causes and
meanings of extreme violence in war, social scientists have accepted the
conventional idea that war is a fact of life.

This symposium is undertaken in response to the inadequacy of
contemporary theorization proclaiming that social phenomena can be
explained merely by identifying their "narratives" or "discursive
practices." With regard to the massive destructiveness of warfare it is
necessary to pose the question: What precisely are the motives-the
desires, fantasies and anxieties-underlying the human propensity to die
and kill in the name of sociopolitical ideologies?

With the goal of analyzing the psychological and cultural mechanisms
underlying collective violence in war, militarism, and the related
phenomena of genocide and terrorism, the Library of Social Science put
forth a call for papers that generated 200 proposals from scholars and
professionals around the world.

A select group of scholars from the fields of psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, literature, law, military
science, and religious studies have been invited for intensive
high-level dialogue in a seminar workshop format to develop ideas and
hypotheses on the dynamics of warfare.
Featured speakers include:
. Ana Carden-Coyne, Ph.D., Professor, Centre for the Cultural History of
War, University of Manchester, "American Guts and Military Manhood"
.Gillian Gillison, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies, University of
Toronto: "There Are None So Blind"
.Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D., Director, Library of Social Science, "Dying
and Killing for Nations: The Psychology of War and Genocide"
.Ron Leifer, M.D., Psychiatrist in private practice: "The Roots of War"
· Olek Netzer, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Kibbutz Barkai, Israel:
"The Virus of Dehumanization: Deciphering the Code of Destructive
Behavior in Inter-Group Conflict"
.Eelco Runia, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Groningen University: "Vertigo"
.Juha Siltala, Ph.D., Professor of Finnish History, Helsinki University:
"A Nation Reborn out of Young Blood: Sacrificial Fantasies in the
Finnish Civil War, 1917-1918"
.James E. Waller, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Whitworth College:
"Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing"
The Library of Social Science is a center devoted to the creation and
dissemination on scholarship that has the potential to impact on the
real world. Please visit our website at
http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/
For information on this symposium or other upcoming Library of Social
Science events, please contact Jay Bernstein, Ph.D., Symposium Director
at 718-393-1104, by FAX at 413-832-8145, or by e-mail at
libraryofsocialscience@earthlink.net.
Library of Social Science
92-30 56th Avenue, Suite 3-E
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director
718-393-1081
Jay H. Bernstein, Ph. D., Executive Director
718-393-1104
Mei Ha Chan, Associate Director
718-393-1075
Fax: 413-832-8145
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/ "

Here's the new petition to the House Govt Reform Committee asking them
to include thr Reign of Terror & the case of Leonard Peltier in their
investigation of the FBI. Please sign & distribute widely. John
G
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/balpsg01/petition.html

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Autumn Leaves :)
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Enjoy a festive eve' and Holidays as you can. Ciao, for now. i look
forward.... Viva la evolution, viva green party. james m nordlund

High time this got looked at!

Dear Haswtch,

Hola! Thanx for responding. I agree. For all you do and don't, these related resources are for thee :) http://www.november.org
http://www.stopbadjustice.com
http://www.ncadp.org
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3rd Version of the Stolen Lives Book :) >CONTACT:
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link from there. CRU, American Friends Service Committee 215-241-7137
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or call 800-973-6548
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Injustices/
Addressing, not addressing them
have costs, the former is individual,
the later is global, as well.

"It is the theory that decides what we can observe." ~ Albert Einstein
As always, feel free to copy and share, as well. "Painting is poetry which
is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not
seen." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Prison is designed to break everyone's spirit
and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit
every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of
individuality, all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each
of us human and each of us who we are." ~ Nelson Mandela
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy
and balanced development
is the best form of conflict prevention." ~ Kofi Annan U.N. Secretary
General 1999
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
~ Albert Einstein
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, effects all indirectly."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
~ Mahatma Gandhi, "we must be the changes we wish to ee in the world."
"We" can challenge ourselves and society by challenging defacto slavery
established by the injustice system in the U.S. and everywhere it is? Isn't
an important part of that challenging, working towards abolishing their tool
of terror which determines most follow their leaders out of fear, if little
else? For, we all know the innocent are premeditatedly murdered by the state to that purpose, the death penalty being a tool of the war on freedom. Enjoy your eve' and Holidays as best you can. Ciao, for now. i look forward....
What do you think? Viva la evolution, viva green party. james m nordlund

truth is powerful- at least it should be:)