2003 News Archive
Center Affiliate Kanan Makiya cited in Saddam Hussein editorial(12/15/2003)
Former Brandeis International Fellow Shiranee Tilakawardane named Supreme Court Judge in Sri Lanka (12/15/2003)
Center mourns the loss of board member Paul Simon (12/10/2003)
Obituary from The New York Times: Paul Simon, former Senator from Illinois, dead at 75
Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellowship Celebration (12/03/2004)
A Region Inflamed: The past; A paper trail follows Iraqi merchants of tyranny (11/24/2003)
The New York Times speaks with Kanan Makiya
Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, Center board member, authors the majority opinion for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court landmark ruling on the protection of rights for same-sex unions (11/19/2003)
- Equal rights -- and rites, The Boston Globe
- Excerpts: the majority opinions , The Boston Globe
Read excerpts from the majority opinion on same-sex marriage written by Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall
Escape From Slavery (11/18/2003)
Living on la Finca: Community Development from the Bottom Up (11/13/2003)
From Minas to Massachusetts (11/12/2003)
The Center hosts a humanities-based seminar on Brazilian immigration in cooperation with the Framingham State College Center for Global Education to explore the enormous influx of Brazilians in the last decade to the "Metro West" region.
- In America: Words have the power to unite, MetroWest Daily News (11/15/2003)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood? Community in a Post-Conflict Nation (11/06/2003)
Between Hope and Struggle: Dialogue in Sri Lanka and Israel (10/30/2003)
The Olympic Truce: An Ancient Peacebuilding Concept for Modern Troubled Times (10/29/2003)
Iraqi's optimism endures - Exiled leader urges crackdown on Ba'athists (10/23/2003)
The Boston Globe reports on Kanan Makiya, his work in Iraq, and his recent return to Brandeis
Rebuilding Iraq: Brandeis scholar offers insight into his native land (10/23/2003)
The News Tribune reports on Makiya's talk to members and guests of the Brandeis Community
Dissent and Conformity in American Political Culture (10/16/2003)
Beehive Collective Tour (10/16/2003)
Literary Responses to Mass Violence (9/16/2003 - 9/18/2003)
Writers and scholars read from their works and considered theoretical models for understanding literary responses to mass violence.
- The examined life: disaster writing (09/14/2003)
The Boston Globe reports on the upcoming conference: Literary Responses to Mass Violence
. . And honoring the victims (09/11/2003)
Author and Center Board Member James Carroll reflects on the anniversary of September 11, 2001 in The Boston Globe
Path to Brandeis rooted amid Ireland's 'killing fields' for new coexistence master's program director (09/09/2003)
Fitzduff is newly arrived at Brandeis, where she is preparing to launch a master's program in conflict resolution and coexistence.
Does the wall also need to cut our campus in two? (09/01/2003)
An emergency appeal by Sari Nusseibeh, the Al-Quds University president and member of the Center's board
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- Israel, Nusseibeh reach deal on route of separation fence (Ha'aretz 9/29/2003)
- Israelis to go to U.S. to discuss barrier rift (The New York Times 9/20/2003)
- Israeli fence threatens to slice through peace (WBUR 9/15/2003)
Brandeis in the Berkshires
Daniel Terris served a program director for the second annual series of institutes where professional and community leaders gathered to examine major issues of the day. Terris was joined by Center advisory board members James Carroll and Sen. Paul Simon.
Related News:
- Three Faiths And A Glimmer Of Hope (The Jewish Week Online 08/29/2003)
- A Koranic reconciliation with the Jewish Return (Jerusalem Post 08/28/2003)
Center continues seminars on end-of-life issues (08/03/2003)
The Center held a seminar entitled "Complex Issues in End-of-Life Care," as part of the long-standing Brandeis Seminars in the Humanities and the Professions program. It was organized in collaboration with the Smith College School for Social Work's Center for Innovative Practice.
International Jurisprudence: The Best and Worst of Times (07/22/2003)
Theodore Sorensen delivers the keynote address on the occasion of the Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ) July 22, 2003 at the Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria
Brandeis Institute for International Judges 2003 (07/20/2003 - 07/26/2003)
The second Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ), "Authority and Autonomy: Defining the Role of International and Regional Courts," was held at the Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg, Austria on July 20-26, 2003.
Friends of Brandeis in South Africa (07/09/2003)
The first ever Friends of Brandeis in South Africa function was held at All Africa House, University of Cape Town (UCT) on Wednesday, July 9, 2003.
Learn about the Program, the Fellows, and their work
Fellows have been selected for '03-'04 The Brandeis International Fellowship Program: "Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts '03-'04"
Rich legacy to human rights (07/07/2003)
An opinion piece in the The Boston Globe praises the richness of the material in the Andrei Sakharov Archive at Brandeis.
The Center Welcomes Chief Justice Margaret Marshall to the Board (06/25/2003)
Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts joins the Center's Advisory Board.
Digital Stories reach Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan (06/11/2003)
"Seeing Both Sides" (06/05/2003)
Cynthia cohen to speak at Lesley University
Alan B. Slifka honored for dedication to coexistence at Commencement 2003 (05/18/2003)
"Haven or Home?" (05/16/2003)
A pilot program of the Brandeis Seminars in Humanities and the Professions explores issues facing refugees and their host communities
Brandeis scholarships create unlikely partners in peace program (05/14/2003)
The New York Times
Theodore Sorensen, advisory board chair, delivers commencement address at American University (05/11/2003)
Looking for hope in an apartheid monster's eyes (05/10/2003)
Interview with former Center affiliate Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
Student Fellows prepare for a summer of new experiences (05/03/2003)
A nation lost (04/22/2003)
Article in the The Boston Globe by Center board member James Carroll
Speaking with Kanan Makiya:
- A Nation at War: Consitution, The New York Times (04/20/2003)
- Opposition leader urges US to bolster Iraqi democrats, The Jerusalem Post (4/21/03)
"A tribute to the life and work of Theodore C. Sorensen" (04/21/2003)
Brandeis University and the Council on Foreign Relations co-sponsors event
Both Sides of the Bench (04/01/2003 - 04/03/2003)
New Perspectives on International Law and Human Rights
Gender Ethics in a World of Power: An Islamic Perspective (3/20/2003)
Kanan Makiya (03/17/2003)
On Now with Bill Moyers
Being antiwar isn't enough (03/16/2003)
Daniel Terris, LA Times
Towards a Robust Ideal of Peace
Dan Terris, director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
The Psychology of Chronic Conflict - by Dr. Gary Jacobson (03/14/2003)
War's power of seduction (03/11/2003)
James Carroll, The Boston Globe
Russell Banks comes to Brandeis (03/11/2003)
A war policy in collapse (03/04/2003)
James Carroll, The Boston Globe
Watching the war with both eyes (02/25/2003)
James Carroll, The Boston Globe
Our hopes betrayed: How a US blueprint for post-Saddam government quashed the hopes of democratic Iraqis (02/16/2003)
Kanan Makiya, The Observer
Iraqi opposition slams plan for military governor (02/16/2003)
Luke Harding, The Observer
Brandeis Fellow (2001-2003) named President of the Court of Appeals for Sri Lanka
Saying no to war (02/11/2003)
James Carroll, The Boston Globe
Mari Fitzduff appointed professor of coexistence and director of the proposed master's program
Makiya takes leadership role in shaping Iraq's future (01/14/2003)
The Justice
Kanan Makiya participates in a meeting at the White House with Iraqi Dissidents (01/12/2003)
The New York Times
Andrei Sakharov sculpture to be unveiled at special music performance at Brandeis (01/10/2003)
The Boston Phoenix selects The Rose exhibit for its "Editors' Pick" (01/09/2003)
Cynthia Cohen visits the Sewa Lanka foundation, a Center partner in Sri Lanka