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Kelman Selected for Grawemeyer Award

A former senior fellow and grantee at the U.S. Institute of Peace has won the 1997 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, while an Institute grantee and former staff member were selected as runners up. Herbert C. Kelman, a fellow at the Institute in 1989-90 and director of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard University, was announced as the first place winner on April 29. The award carries a $150,000 prize.

Kelman was cited for a series of articles he published in recent years describing a process by which a third party may be able to find areas on which combatants can agree, opening the door for further, more substantial negotiations. He has elaborated the process through a series of workshops for academic and political figures who have helped lay the groundwork for recent breakthroughs in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Kelman worked on the ideas for the articles and related projects while at the Institute and while a grantee.

Among 39 nominees for this year's award, Rudolph Rummel of the University of Hawaii was the third runner up for his book on genocide, Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900, written with Institute grants and published by Transaction Books in 1994. Michael Lund, former head of the Institute's preventive diplomacy initiative, was the fourth runner up for his book, Preventing Violent Conflicts: A Strategy for Preventive Diplomacy, published last year by the Institute's Press.

Alexander George Honored

Alexander George, a distinguished fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace for two years (1990-92), was recently honored by the National Academy of Sciences for his contribution to preventing nuclear war. The academy presented the Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War, which includes a prize of $15,000, at a ceremony in Washington, D. C., April 28. George--who is emeritus professor of political science at Stanford University-- is the author of two popular Institute Press publications, Bridging the Gap: Theory and Practice in Foreign Policy and Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War.

Klarevas Visits Cyprus. . .

Any solution to the conflict in Cyprus will likely see the creation of two states with one federal government, meeting the requirements of the United Nations Security Council resolution which calls for Cyprus to be a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation, says Louis Klarevas, a research associate in the U.S. Institute of Peace's Education and Training Program and doctoral candidate in international relations at the American University. He traveled to Cyprus May 2-9 as part of a U.S. Information Service program that brings American scholars to Cyprus to engage in dialogue with Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

Klarevas met privately with more than a dozen high-level officials, politicians, and social and intellectual leaders from both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, as well as representatives of the United States and the United Nations in Cyprus. Also, he lectured to five groups on "The Impact of Public Opinion and the Media on International Crises and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies."

Strife broke out in Cyprus between the Greek and Turkish communities in 1963. The Turkish army intervened in 1974, giving control in the north to the Turkish Cypriots, who comprise 18 percent of the Island's approximately 736,700 inhabitants. The international community recognizes only the Greek government in the south, which represents about 78 percent of the island's population. Leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities are scheduled to meet for direct talks on the Cyprus issue under the auspices of UN secretary general Kofi Annan in New York July 9-13. Nevertheless, Klarevas says, any major steps to resolve the conflict are not likely before the presidential elections on the Greek side, scheduled for February.

Steve Riskin, program officer in the Grant Program, discussed the faltering peace process in the Middle East on CNN International March 24.

David Smock, director of the Grant Program, discussed developments in Zaire May 21 at the World Affairs Council of Washington. The talk was broadcast by C-SPAN. Smock also was interviewed by Time magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, U.S.A. Today, the Boston Globe, National Public Radio, and other media.

Scott Snyder, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, gave presentations on Korea at the International Studies Association, the Second Annual SMU/Dallas Forum on Asian Affairs, and the Defense Intelligence Agency in March. He presented his research on North Korean negotiating behavior at a May 2 seminar at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). Snyder discussed the status of U.S. negotiations with North Korea with reporters from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and CNN International. The Far Eastern Economic Review and the Asia Times interviewed him about the Spratly and Senkaku/Diaoyu Island disputes.

Lauren Van Metre, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, discussed NATO enlargement on Helsinki News, a television program in Finland, and on a call-in show for KRPP radio in Los Angeles.

© 1997 United States Institute of Peace

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