Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

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Gerald M. Steinberg: Postcolonial Theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies
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Gerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a conference held at Case Western Reserve, and organized in cooperation with Scholars for Peace in…

Challenges and Dilemmas Facing Liberal Muslim Thinkers Conference: Woodrow Wilson Center Oct 18
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Thursday, October 18,the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program and the Muslim WorldInitiative of the United States Institute of Peace will host a talk by Dr.Abdou Filali Ansari, one of the Arab world’s most prominent — and in someways controversial — advocates of Islamic liberalism. Commenting on Dr. Ansari’s…

Israeli Historian Wins German Book Trade’s 2007 Peace Prize
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912660.html Israeli historian Saul Friedlander was awarded the top prize at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair on Sunday in recognition of his narratives documenting the Nazi Holocaust. “Saul Friedlander gave a voice to the grievances and cries of those human beings who were turned to dust – he gave them memory and a name,” the…

Critics of Israel Lobby Hold Parley
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071016finkelsteinmearsheimer.html Several of the pro-Israel lobby’s strongest critics gathered in Chicago to fight what they described as Jewish efforts to stifle academic freedom. CHICAGO (JTA) — Collectively they have published more than a hundred books and countless articles. Four are tenured professors at elite American universities. Internet searches reveal them to be widely cited experts…