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Ethics Central, the Center's Newsletter

Spring 2008
  • From the Director - "An End to Unilateralism," a call for the next administration to embrace international law
  • The Center celebrates its 10th anniversary, featuring a keynote address by Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice
  • The new book The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases is the focus of a roundtable discussion
  • William Haglund is the Center's second annual Distinguished Visiting Practitioner
  • The Center hosts the 2nd West African Judicial Colloquium
  • The Ethics Center Student Fellowship program marks 10 years of student engagement
  • The 2008 Ethics Center Student Fellows are announced
  • A new dual Master's Degree in Development and Coexistence is launched
  • New publications: a report on BIIJ 2007, a report on the "Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle" conference, and a special anniversary publication exploring 10 years of the Center's history
Fall 2007
  • From the Director - "After 10 Years, Taking Stock" an invitation for feedback on the work of the Center
  • The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases is released
  • "Acting Together on the World Stage" event features international theatre artists and peacebuilding experts
  • An excerpt from Complementary Approaches to Coexistence Work
  • Brandeis Institute for International Judges weighs 'Independence and Interdependence'
  • Center director named associate VP for Global Affairs
  • Ethics Center welcomes new staff
  • New students begin the Master of Arts in Coexistence and Conflict
  • Brandeis students produce a new online anthology
Spring 2007
  • From the Director - "After Carter," a reflection on the campus visits by former President Jimmy Carter and Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz
  • Saving Species, Saving Lives: Balancing Biodiversity and Human Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle: Democracy, Human Rights, Gender and Development
  • Announcing two online publications: Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts and Telling the Story
  • Student Profiles: Andrew Ginsberg and Moussokoro Kané, two students in the Slifka Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict
  • Welcome Barbara Strauss '02 to the Ethics Center staff
  • Coming Soon: The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases
  • Master's Students Visit Peacebuilding Agencies in NYC and Washington

Fall 2006

  • From the Director - "Re-inventing Decency," a plea for the right response at the right moment
  • 9/11: Brandeis Reflections Five Years Later
  • New International Advisory Board Members
  • Welcome Theodore A. Johnson and Stephanie Gerber Wilson to the Ethics Center staff
  • Know Your Rights!, a collaborative project with the West African Research Center/Association and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • The Al-Quds/Brandeis partnership continues to expand
  • Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace: Coexistence International at the International Peace Research Association's biennial conference
  • The Slifka Program teams with MusicUnitesUS for a new Intercultural Residency Series

Spring 2006

  • From the Director - "International Law Cannot Stand Alone," a defense of international courts and tribunals and their place in bringing about peace
  • New International Advisory Board Members Selected
  • "The Long View" - a Board event focusing on impending world problems
  • Brandeis Institute for International Judges 2006 - Dakar, Senegal
  • West African Judicial Colloquium - Dakar, Senegal
  • The Human Barometer Excericse

Fall 2005

  • From the Director - "The Struggle for Equality Hits Home," a look at the lessons of Hurricane Katrina
  • First Slifka Fellow Selected
  • Partnership between Brandeis and Al-Quds University in Jerusalem is Launched
  • Telling the Story: Power and Resonsibility in Documenting Human Rights, a Two-Day Conference
  • Creative Approaches to Coexistence and Reconciliation: A Playwright Collaboration
  • A Perspective from Nablus

Spring 2005

  • From the Director - Ethics at Work: Why Tough Program Leaders Need Tough Programs
  • The Center Welcomes New Advisory Board Members
  • The Newcomers Among Us: The Experiences of Haitians Who Have Made Boston Their New Home
  • Local Action/Global Impact: An Interactive Forum
  • Faith in Action - From Brandeis to Nicaragua, From Boston to Sudan
  • International Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict Launched in March
  • Remembering Ingrid Muan

Fall 2004

  • Slifka Master's Program Opens with 13 Students
  • The Coexistence Initiative (TCI) Joins the Center
  • BIIJ Spotlight: Human Dignity as a Human Right (BIIJ)
  • Complementarity and Cooperation: International Courts in a Diverse World (BIIJ)
  • From the Director
  • Local Action/Global Impact

Spring 2004

  • Justice Across Cultures
  • From the Director: Legacies of Leadership
  • BIF & ECSF Presentations (BIF & ECSF)
  • Literary Responses to Mass Violence
  • Newcomers Among Us
  • "Fellows" Collaborate (BIF & ECSF)
  • 2004 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows (ECSF)
  • Center Board Meets Students

Fall 2003

  • Announcing a New Master's Degree Program in Coexistence and Conflict
  • CHYME
  • From the Director: The Art of the Unspeakable
  • Brandeis International Fellows 2003 (BIF)
  • Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ)
  • Tribute to Theodore Sorensen
  • New Staff and Advisory Board Members
  • 2003 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows (ECSF)

Spring 2003

  • Mari Fitzduff Appointed Director of the Master's Program in the Program in Intercommunal Coexistence
  • New Round of Brandeis International Fellows (BIF)
  • South African Art
  • From the Director: Towards a Robust Ideal of Peace
  • International Law and Human Rights Symposium
  • Refugee and Resettlement Seminar
  • 2003 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows (ECSF)

Fall 2002

  • Inaugural Session of the Brandeis Insitute for International Judges (BIIJ)
  • Reflections on the International Rule of Law
  • From the Director: On Acting Alone
  • Five Years of Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows (ECSF)
  • Choreography of Conflict
  • New Chair in Ethics
  • Brandeis in the Berkshires

Spring 2002

  • Brandeis Instiute for Interternational Judges (BIIJ)
  • Humanities and the Professions
  • Human Rights and September 11
  • September 11 Course Offering and Lecture Series
  • 2002 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows (ECSF)
  • Brandeis International Fellows Institutes (BIF)
  • CHYME

Fall 2001

  • From the Director: We Will Be Tested
  • Guidebook for Peacebuilders
  • Global Partners in Education
  • International Documentary Film Series
  • 2001 Ethics and Coexistence Fellows (ECSF)
  • Brandeis International Fellows 2001-2003 (BIF)
  • CHYME (formally Middle East Youth Leaders Exchange)

Spring 2001

  • Visiting Chinese Scholar
  • 2001 Ethics & Coexistence Fellows (ECSF)
  • Seminars in Humanities and Professions
  • Middle East Student Retreat
  • Seeger/Sapp Residency
  • Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of Conscience
  • The Lessons of Kosovo
  • Global Education Partnerships

Winter 2000-01

  • New Chair in Ethics
  • Undergraduate Student Fellows Share their Experiences Abroad
  • Speak Truth to Power
  • Juvenile Justice at the Crossroads
  • Power Relations and Group Dynamics
  • Coexistence Initiative Update
  • Brandeis International Fellows Return (BIF)
  • Undergraduates Head Abroad (ECSF)
  • Coexistence Initiative Update
  • The Kosovo Interventions: Two Perspectives
  • Doing Justice and Loving Mercy
  • The Japanese American Internment
  • Empathy with "Apartheid's Crusader"
  • A New Public Education

Fall 1999

  • Theodore C. Sorensen to Chair Center's Board
  • Rice Family foundation Funds Brandeis International Fellowships
  • Michael Ignatieff
  • 1998 Fellow Continues Work on Groups in Conflict
  • Coexistence and Community Building at Brandeis University and in the World
  • Social Anthropologist Joins the Center as Visiting Scholar
  • Reflections on 1999, Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows
  • Human Rights and Conflict Resolution: Reconciling Two Approaches to Coexistence
  • Doing Justice and Loving Mercy
  • Spring 2000 Courses Feature South Africa TRC Member

Summer 1999

  • New Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence at Brandeis
  • Fulbright Scholarship and USA Today Awards for Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows
  • News of Brandeis International Fellows
  • Pilot "Education Partnership" Begins in Grenada
  • Goldstone Speaks on "Crimes Against Humanity: How Should They Be Judged?"
  • Coexistence Program Director Heads to Belfast
  • New Grant Funds Seminars on Juvenile Justice

Winter 1999

  • Human Rights Symposium
  • "Exposition:" A Showcase of Student Fellows' and International Fellows' Work
  • Partnerships in Israel
  • Ethics Center Student Fellows 1998 and 1999 (ECSF)
  • Brandeis International Fellows
  • Abraham Feinberg, Founder 1908-1998
  • Science Fiction Texts for Judges in Brandeis Seminars
  • Ethics Center New Location
  • Curriculum Project

Summer 1997

  • Welcome
  • Coexistence Student Fellowships
  • Brandeis Seminars in Humanities and the Professions
  • Brandeis International Fellowships in Coexistence
  • Palestinian Scholar and Activist to Be the Center's First "Distinguished Visitor"