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Patricia Carley, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, discussed recent developments in Central Asia and Turkey as part of the Sarasota Institute of Lifetime Learning lecture series in Sarasota and Venice, Florida.

Albert Cevallos, research assistant in the Jennings Randolph fellowship program, was jailed for two days in the Kosovo region of Serbia for failing to register with the local police, as required by law. (Police shaved the heads of the men in the group before their detention.) Cevallos and five other Americans, all working under the auspices of the San Francisco–based group Peaceworkers, were in Kosovo to promote a nonviolent solution to the conflict between the area’s ethnic Albanian and Serb communities. The peace workers, mostly college students, were released and deported, and have been banned by Serbian authorities from returning to Kosovo for three years.

Board chairman Chester Crocker discussed “Towards an Enabling Environment for Investment in Africa” at the Addis Forum on Trade and Investment in Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 8. Crocker headed the delegation of the Corporate Council on Africa, an organization of corporate leaders, at the event.

Patrick Cronin, director of the Research and Studies Program, discussed “Sino-American Military-to-Military Relations” at a Capitol Hill conference in March sponsored by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. He spoke about “The Implications of China’s Growing Dependence on Oil Imports” to the annual conference of the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts and the Petroleum Investor Relations Association. Cronin also participated in the first meeting of a joint effort by the United States and Japan to reduce the risks of nuclear weapons in East Asia. The March meeting was co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Research Institute for Peace and Security of Japan.

Board member Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Kentucky on April 3. This was his 136th honorary degree.

Joseph Klaits, director of the Jennings Randolph fellowship program, appeared on CNN International in January for a global broadcast of an hour-long live discussion of European extremist movements.

Neil Kritz, senior scholar on the rule of law, traveled to Rwanda February 8–15 at the request of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department to review the current status of the post-genocide justice efforts and develop recommendations for appropriate new U.S. initiatives to advance the process.

David Little, senior scholar on religion, ethics, and human rights, gave the keynote address at a conference on “Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom in Europe and Central Asia” March 16–18 at the Jagiellonian University, Crackow, Poland. Little also has an essay on “Religion and United States Foreign Policy” in the forthcoming SAIS Review.

Daniel Serwer, a senior foreign service officer with long experience in European affairs, joined the Institute in March as a senior fellow on detail from the U.S. Department of State. In recent years, he has worked intensively on Bosnian and Balkan issues and he was in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. Serwer will work on the Institute’s Bosnia initiative, particularly on expanding the work to encompass a broader Balkan perspective, concentrating especially on Serbia and issues relating to Kosovo.

David Smock, director of the Grant Program, discussed “U.S. Policy Toward Africa” and “Private Peacemaking” at Haverford College in February. He also consulted with the Peace Studies programs of Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore colleges about their consideration of a joint peace studies program. In March, Smock participated in a White House roundtable to discuss President Clinton’s trip to Africa that month.

Scott Snyder, program officer in the Research and Studies Program, published an op-ed, “Two Koreas and Their Progress Toward Peace,” in the Washington Post February 23, and an essay, “Managing Integration on the Korean Peninsula,” in Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula (Institute of International Economics, Washington, D.C.).

William Stuebner, adviser to the Rule of Law initiative, published an article in the Serbian magazine Vreme titled, “Some Peace at Last for Admir,” a story about the arrest of a Serb indicted for war crimes and a young man’s hopes for his country.

Barbara Wien, program officer in the Education and Training Program, published an article on peaceful alternatives to the confrontation with Iraq in the February issue of The Peace Chronicle, published by the Consortium on Peace Research, Education, and Development (COPRED).

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