Brandeis Campus Demonstration Project on Intercommunal Coexistence - Report of the First Year Evaluation, Belle Brett and Barbara Bamberger, July 2000.

Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence - Annual Reports
In 1999, with support from the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, Brandeis launched a three-year Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War era -- the precursor to the now-permanent Alan B. Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence. The following are the annual reports from each year of the BIIC's existence: 2002 | 2001 | 2000

"The Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence: A Multi-faceted Comprehensive Approach to Improving Intergroup Relations," Cynthia Cohen with Marcia McPhee, in Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations: Theory, Research and Practice, Walter Stephan and Paul Vogt, eds., 2004. Teachers College Press

Brandeis Intercultural Residency Series 2005-06 Assessment Report, Cynthia Cohen and Judith Eissenberg, 2006.

Brandeis Students on Coexistence, edited by Devika Mahadevan '00, 2000. A booklet of student writing on coexistence theory and practice reflecting a diversity of thought and experience. It is intended for a variety of audiences, including students, scholars, and practitioners interested in coexistence issues.

A Call to Conversation: Majority/Minority Relations at Brandeis University, Cynthia Cohen, March 2002. An invitation to members of the Brandeis community to listen more deeply to each others' experiences of majority/minority relationship at Brandeis.

Can Brandeis Be This Place?, Cynthia Cohen, 2000. A plan of action for building community and strengthening coexistence at Brandeis 2000-2001.

"Coexistence and Reconciliation in the Northern Region of Ghana," Hizkias Assefa, in Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence: Theory and Practice, edited by Mohammed Abu-Nimer, May 2001.

Coexistence and the Quest for Justice, (HTML) multiple authors, 2000. Project Summaries of the 1998 Brandeis International Fellows. Fellows were selected from the Balkans, the Middle East, South Africa, and Sri Lanka to engages in a cross-cultural process of reflection on coexistence methods and to stimulate consideration of the ethical dimensions of coexistence work.

Coexistence at Brandeis: Reflections and Recommendations April 2002, Cynthia Cohen. The preliminary report from the Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence (BIIC) to the Brandeis community. It is intended to illuminate issues of coexistence at the university and to encourage conversation about them.

Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East (CHYME) (HTML), 2004. A program in cooperation with MASAR (Jordan), Givat Haviva (Israel), and the Palestinian House of Friendship (PNA) to build capacity within a cohort of exemplary youth leaders, enabling them to design and implement cross-border community research projects.
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Complementary Approaches to Coexistence Work - Focus Paper Series, Coexistence International. With this publications series, CI examines where and how certain fields intersect with coexistence work. What challenges and opportunities exist when disciplines work together toward the common goal of a more peaceful, just world? This series illustrates the possibilities of effecting positive coexistence through cooperation among related fields.

Core Competencies for Graduate Programs in Coexistence and Conflict Work - Can We Agree?, Mari Fitzduff. A four-page brochure suggesting core competencies for graduate programs like the Slifka master's program. The publication is part of the Project on Leadership notes series conducted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Country Studies, Coexistence International. With this publication series, CI describes the state of coexistence within different countries, and compares diversity and coexistence policies from countries around the world. CI has made no attempt to assess the implementation or success of such processes, or to endorse any of the initiatives mentioned in the report. We believe, however, that the documentation of the existence and scope of such efforts can contribute to a wider understanding of the variety of approaches for addressing issues of coexistence and intergroup conflict.

"Creative Approaches to Reconciliation," Cynthia Cohen, in The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace, edited by Mari Fitzduff and Christopher E. Stout. ISBN #0-275-98201-7. Copyright © December 2005. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Greenwood Publishing Group Inc., Westport, CT.

"Engaging with the Arts to Promote Coexistence," Cynthia Cohen, in Imagine Coexistence: Restoring Humanity After Violent Ethnic Conflict, edited by Antonia Chayes and Martha Minow, 2003.

Global Partnerships for Education, Stephanie Gerber, 2002. Brandeis faculty and students worked with partners in Haifa, Grenada, and Chelsea, Massachusetts. This project was built on one premise: coexistence between divided peoples depends not just on dialogue, but also on a shared understanding of cultural diversity.

Peace and Conflict in Africa: Reflections from an African Peacebuilder, Hizkias Asseffa, 1999.

• Part I: Causes, Dynamics and Implications for the Emerging Global Order
• Part II: Patterns of Peace and Peace Building: Lessons and Reflections

Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle: Democracy, Human Rights, Gender, and Development
This report documents the proceedings of the "Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle" conference held on March 15 and 16, 2007, which examined the nexus of distinct but related fields working on coexistence and peacebuilding work.

Preliminary Reports on Coexistence Research Supported by the Brandeis Initiative in Intercommunal Coexistence (BIIC), September 2000. HTML

The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace, Mari Fitzduff and Christopher Stout, eds. Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers, December 2005.

South Africa: A Life Experience in Hope, Peace, and Reconciliation, Brahmy Poologasingham '00, 2000. Poologasingham spent eight weeks in South Africa as an intern with several organizations working on issues of human rights, poverty, and the environment. This narrative is her account of that experience -- what she saw and heard, what she learned, what she gave.

Student Writing on Coexistence, 2001. Developed in response to the international film series "Moving Pictures: Framing Coexistence." Includes essays on the film series as well as writing on the following regions: the Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the former Yugoslavia. HTML

"Working with Groups in Conflict: The Effects of Power on the Dynamics of the Group," Cynthia Cohen with Farhart Agbaria, September 2000.

Working with Integrity: A Guidebook for Peacebuilders Asking Ethical Questions, Cynthia Cohen, 2001. A resource for people who promote coexistence and further reconciliation in historically divided communities. It is designed to engage its users in practicing an approach to ethical inquiry that is well suited to the kinds of dilemmas and questions that arise in the work of building peace. Because the document is so large, we have divided the Guidebook into smaller documents:

• ECSF 2007 - Translations: Six Stories of (Mis)Understanding
• ECSF 2006 - Alone With Five Others: Dispatches from a Changing World
• ECSF 2004 - The Art of Coexistence: 6 Students, 4 Countries, 1,000 Questions (Cambodia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka)
• ECSF 2003 - Guatemala, South Africa, Sri Lanka, USA
• ECSF 2002 - Guatemala, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, USA
• ECSF 2001 - Northern Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Sri Lanka
• ECSF 2000 - Grenada, Northern Ireland, South Africa
• ECSF 1999 (HTML) - Argentina, Bosnia, China, The Gambia, Grenada, Israel
• ECSF 1998 (HTML) - Bulgaria, Ecuador, Israel, Mozambique, Pakistan, South Africa, Tanzania, USA, Yugoslavia

Local Action/Global Impact: An Interactive Forum
A 44-page publication chronicling 11 of the 14 sessions that made up the February 2005 forum of the same name. Local Action/Global Impact was a five-day series of events exploring the interplay of local action and global change. The main body of the publication comes from session summaries and conclusions written by some of the over 500 undergraduate students who attended the forum. Visit the Local/Global homepage.

Telling the Story: Power and Responsibility in Documenting Human Rights Violations, 2005. An online publication chronicling the September 2005 conference of the same name. Telling the Story brought together journalists, filmmakers, artists, forensic specialists, legal practitioners, and scholars to analyze the process by which human rights violations are documented and the reasons they are made public.

Brandeis Institute for International Judges - Reports
Chronicles of the institutes at which judges from international courts and tribunals around the world reflect on the philosophical aspects and practical challenges of their work

• BIIJ 2007 - Independence and Interdependence: The Delicate Balance of International Justice, featuring break-out sessions with judges from human rights, criminal, and inter-state dispute courts conferring on issues specific to their work, and "Topics in Ethical Practice: Integrity and Interdependence: the Shaping of the Judicial Persona"
• BIIJ 2006 - Complementarity and Cooperation: International Courts in a Diverse World, featuring "Justice Without Borders," by Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and "Topics in Ethical Practice: The Judiciary as a New Moral Authority?"
• BIIJ 2004 - Complementarity and Cooperation: The Challenges of International Justice, featuring "Human Dignity as a Human Right"
• BIIJ 2003 - Authority and Autonomy: Defining the Role of International and Regional Courts, featuring "International Jurisprudence: The Best and Worst of Times," the keynote address delivered by Theodore Sorensen; "Challenges Facing the New International Court"; and "Toward the Development of Ethics Guidelines for International Courts"
• BIIJ 2002 - The New International Jurisprudence: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals, featuring "Ethical Dimensions of International Jurisprudence and Adjudication," the keynote address delivered by Hans Corell, then-U.N. Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs

The Challenges of International Criminal Justice, a report on the Colloquium for Prosecutors of International Criminal Tribunals hosted in November 2004 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. Representatives of the ICTR, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Court of Sierra Leone attended the colloquium.

"International Jurisprudence: The Best and Worst of Times" (HTML), Theodore Sorenson, July 2003. The keynote address of the 2002 Brandeis Institute for International Judges, delivered in Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria.

Intervention and Prevention: The Lessons of Kosovo (HTML), Melissa Blanchard, 2000. An online publication documenting the roundtable discussion held at Brandeis on December 12, 2000. Members of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo joined scholars, journalists, diplomats, and activists for a roundtable discussion on the 1999 war and its lessons for the future.

"Justice 2018: Charting the Course," Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice, March 2008. The keynote address of the Center's 10th anniversary celebration.

"Jews and African Americans: Holding Down the Fort," Daniel Terris, in Religion and Public Life in New England: Steady Habits, Changing Slowly, eds. Andrew Walsh and Mark Silk, 2004. Available at AltaMira Press.