TABLE OF CONTENTS:
FROM THE CHAIR
PWSC SECTIONS AT THE 2001 ASA MEETINGS
SECTION WEBSITE AND EMAIL LISTS
BOOK REVIEW
CALLS FOR PAPERS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEWSLETTER EDITOR NEEDED FOR PWSC

FROM THE CHAIR:

Gordon Fellman, Brandeis University

I realized several years after joining the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict that the military sociologists and peace studies sociologists among us seem not to connect very much in their work and in their discourse.

My plan for next summers section sessions are for the two parts of our section the military sociology part and the peace studies part to talk rather fully and openly to and with each other. It seems to me that we have a cordial modus vivendi but that each of the two groups seems to go its own way, solid ships passing in the night. A brief set of non-random inquiries at last summer’s meetings led me to realize that many peace studies sociologists in our section have but a faint or non-existent idea about what military sociologists do, and vice versa. Do we have conflicting agendas, priorities, political assumptions and directions? Similar or diverging or overlapping purposes and goals? I expect there are unspoken assumptions and suspicions and maybe even stereotypes in both directions and am convinced that airing all this, in the spirit of inquiry, learning, and potential revisions in how we view each others work and do our own could make our Anaheim sessions exciting and provocative. This could also 

make us more vital and exciting as a Section and as participants in the two parts of our section. 

We have room, still, for more submissions. I have two presenters lined up to explain and discuss military sociology and two for peace studies. What I would like now is good examples of both, for roundtable presentations. I have several already and eagerly await more. 

I look forward to a few more fine paper submissions. My e-mail address is Fellman@Brandeis.edu. 
Mail address for hard copy is Department of Sociology, MS 071, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110. 

Thank you.
 
 
 

PWSC SECTIONS AT THE 2001 ASA MEETINGS

Regular Session (co-sponsored by the Section on Race, Gender, and Class):

"Asking and Telling: Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality in the Military"

Marcia Texler Segal, Academic Affairs Sociology, M071, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN 47150; (812) 941-2210; msegal@ius.edu; 

Gordon Fellman, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110; (781) 736-2642; fellman@brandeis.edu
 

Roundtables:

ROUNDTABLE ONE: NATIONAL ISSUES 

Jieli Li, "How And Why Does Fa Lun Kong Scare the Chinese Government?" 

Amandeep Sandhu, "Algerian Conflict: An Exercise in State Terrorism"

Edward A. Tiryakian, "The Kosovo War: Epilogue or Prologue?"
 

ROUNDTABLE TWO: GENDER AND SEXUALITY 

Juanita Firestone, "Dont Ask, Dont Tell: A Preliminary Analysis of the DoDs Survey Data"

Darlene Iskra, "The Case Against Women in Submarines: Is it Deja Vu all over again?"

Yuko Kurashina, "The Role of Self-Disclosure and Identity Formation in an Online Military Spouse Support Group"
 

ROUNDTABLE THREE: POTPOURRI 

Emanuel Boussios, "War Casualties, Wartime Opinion and Presidential Public Opinion" 

E.C. Ejiogu, "Projecting the Future Consequences of High Minority Representation in the US Military" 
 

ROUNDTABLE FOUR: CONFLICT--THE MACRO AND THE MICRO 

Roslyn Bologh, "Global Capital and Social Conflict"

Stephen Poulson, "Experience with Conflict and the Willingness to Mediate"
 
 
 

SECTION WEBSITE AND EMAIL LISTS

WEBSITE 

Many of you are aware of our section's website. If not, please visit it and see the new layout by pointing your web browser to http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/pwasa/index.htm. The website continues to evolve and improve, including information such as: 

• section newsletters 
• annual reports 
• tables of contents for Peace and Change and the Journal of Conflict Resolution
• calls for papers 
• links to other web sites addressing peace, war, and social conflict issues 
• special features including reflections on the history of the section and curriculum guides 
• and more! 

If you have announcements or suggestions for the website (especially with regard to military interests), please email them to Lee Smithey (smithey@soc.utexas.edu).

EMAIL LISTS 

Up until the past year, sections had to find their own facilities for email lists, and thanks to Morten Ender's efforts, our section has enjoyed an automated email list for several years. However, the ASA now provides automated email lists compiled from the association's membership rolls. One list (peace_war-announce) is designed for disseminating announcements to section members, and any postings must first be mailed to Lee Smithey (smithey@soc.utexas.edu) or Morten Ender (lm2643@trotter.usma.edu). The other list, peace_war, is available to section members for open discussion. Any message sent to peace_war@listserv.asanet.org by a subscriber to the list will be distributed to those section members who have also subscribed to the list. (Previously, the section's list at peace-and-war@listserv.nodak.edu served this purpose.) You can find directions for subcribing to peace_war in the Special Features section on the front page of the section website.  
Lee Smithey
 

BOOK REVIEW

Review of: Whose World is it Anyway? Civil Society, the United Nations and the Multilateral Future. Edited by John W. Foster with Anita Anand (1999, Ottawa: The United Nations Association, Canada). 575 pp. $24.95 [Distributed by: Kumarian Press (USA) and Renouf (Canada)]

Reviewed by: Jackie Smith

Whose World is it Anyway is an important and very timely resource book on multilateral politics and the role of citizens’ organizations in the United Nations system and in global financial institutions. Its more than 500 pages and appendices contain a wealth of information for those working in or analyzing contemporary global politics. Contributions by experienced advocates and scholars provide historical analyses of the ways citizens’ organizations have sought to influence the United Nations system, guides to help NGOs navigate multilateral institutions, and analyses of contemporary debates about how the global political economy might better meet the needs of the world’s people. Several chapters also engage questions about organizing strategies for contemporary global action. My particular favorite is an excellent analysis by Roberto Bissio of the evolution of transnational NGOs’ uses of the Internet and future prospects for increasing access to and effectiveness of this medium.

The editors have done a commendable job at providing a clear, historically-informed road map to multilateral institutions that can help practitioners as they seek effective ways to promote humanitarian values within global institutions for security, trade, and development. They also outline some of the major challenges to promoting greater equity and representation in the global political economy and to effective international cooperation for a more humane and just international system. The book will be of interest to activists and practitioners especially, and also for students and scholars of contemporary multilateral politics. Researchers investigating the work of civil society agents and contemporary global institutions will find a wealth of both primary and secondary resources in the book’s bibliography.

Readers concerned with institutional questions (including "how to" questions) will appreciate chapters by Peter Willetts and Michael Oliver, which present extremely helpful summaries of the current state of affairs regarding formal accreditation status and informal relations between the UN system and NGOs. Because NGO relations are regulated differently across different multilateral agencies and because of the lengthy process surrounding the most recent attempts to reform the general NGO accreditation mechanism under the UN’s Economic and Social Council, even the most attentive analysts follow these negotiations with difficulty. But Willetts and Oliver provide readable overviews that will help NGOs navigate the complexities of the international system while aiding students of institutions with their analyses and bibliographies.

Another aspect of the book that this reader appreciated is its focus on questions of global governance that is not limited to a particular set of organizations within the global system. The attention to global governance is crucial, because many NGOs focus on single-issues such as human rights, losing sight of the broader question of how an issue campaign fits within a broader institutional context. As a result, the strategic decisions of NGOs often advance particular issues without considering implications for multilateralism. At the same time, one cannot limit a discussion of global institutional change to the United Nations or to the global financial institutions. NGOs’ consideration of particular issues makes them important promoters of greater institutional coordination. But deliberate efforts must be made to find ways to make connections between different international institutions. For instance, human rights advocates have brought the attention of the UN Human Rights Commission to the trade negotiations within the OECD and the WTO. Whose World portrays the United Nations System as the broad umbrella under which other multilateral organizations operate. A consistent theme in the book is that greater attempts must be made to better integrate the various institutions of global governance so that the overarching goal of environmentally sustainable and equitable human betterment might be achieved. The separate operating structures of the Bretton Woods Institutions (e.g., the World Bank, IMF, and World Trade Organization) have prevented the emergence of a coherent multilateral system, but the contributors to this volume offer ways to try to overcome these institutional differences. Their suggestions bring together many different proposals that have grown out of UN Commissions like the Commissions on Sustainable Development or on Global Governance (such as the Tobin Tax), as well as a few less familiar proposals for concrete institutional reforms. Many of these proposals provide both the tools and hope for future efforts to strengthen multilateralism.

Whose World is it Anyway was published prior to the protests in Seattle, but its authors clearly anticipated (indeed, many were part of!) this mobilization of popular resistance to global trade institutions. In fact, the book provides important background to the protests of 1999 and 2000. Chapters on the World Bank and IMF as well as overviews of various aspects of civil society’s work in multilateral "theatres" demonstrate the ways that the global civil society agenda expressed in Seattle was shaped by the transnational NGO activism of the 1980s and 1990s. The only aspect of the book’s discussion of the tensions between the capitalist economic order and global governance system that requires some updating by readers relates to Kofi Annan’s "Global Compact," which was formally initiated since the book’s publication. The Global Compact has drawn extensive criticism from NGOs for creating opportunities for companies that consistently violate United Nations humanitarian, labor, and environmental norms to "blue-wash" their images by becoming "partners" in the UN Compact. 

The analyses of the book’s contributors are informed by many years of experience working in civil society, and they demonstrate great familiarity with very complex and changing institutional arrangements. They also convey a deep conviction that multilateral institutions can be transformed to become more effective tools for human betterment. Indeed, the purpose of these authors is explicitly to advocate for new ideas and efforts to re-think and re-build the "architecture" of the global political and economic order. I highly recommend this book for all those who are concerned with such questions. Educators may find in the book a refreshing opportunity to engage students in thinking about the international system from the perspective of people rather than governments or international bureaucrats. Organizers might encourage their staff and interns to read the book in order to gain a broader perspective on how their own work fits into a global movement. Indeed, the book would provide a helpful structure around which practitioners could design retreats or staff discussions focusing on broad questions of institutional reform and global governance.
 
 
 

CALLS FOR PAPERS

CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY 

This open call requests quality manuscripts pertaining to critical criminology in all its manifestations, including critical legal studies and social justice issues. We welcome qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including non-traditional approaches to data gathering and analysis. Papers should expose and oppose forms of domination that include class, gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation - especially their intersecting and interlocking nature. We encourage works that focus on creative and cooperative solutions to justice problems, plus strategies for the construction of a more inclusive society. 

Papers should be 4,000 to 6,000 words (including tables, illustrations, notes and references) and framed in a manner that would be of interest to an international audience. Book reviews are also welcome and shorter research notes (3,000 words) will be considered for publication. Please send 2 paper copies and 1 electronic copy (IBM compatible) to the appropriate editor listed below. Submissions not from North America or Europe are welcome and can be sent to any editor. All manuscripts are subject to peer review. For more information, see http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/critical-crim-journal.htm 

European &Continental Editor: Jock Young, Centre for Criminology, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield, EN3 4SF, United Kingdom. <j.young@mdx.ac.uk>

North American Editor: Paul Leighton Dept of Soc, Anthro & Crim, 712 Pray Harrold, Eastern Michigan 
University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 <paul@stopviolence.com> 

Executive Editor: Jeffrey Walker Department of Criminal Justice, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Little Rock, AR 72204-1099 <jtwalker@ualr.edu> 

Book Review Editors: 

John Fuller (North America) Dept of Soc, Anthro & Crim, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118 <jfuller@westga.edu> 

Jayne Mooney (Europe) School of Social Science, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield EN3 4SF United Kingdom <j.mooney@mdx.ac.uk> 

Brian McLean will be putting together a special theme edition on Criminology, Empowerment, and Social Justice. Please contact Brain, <bdspm@aol.com> if you would like more information. 

If you would like to be added to our reviewer database, please email or send a letter to the appropriate editor. Be sure to include contact information, your areas of specialization and if there is a website/URL that contains more information about you. 

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It's here: Leighton & Reiman (eds) Criminal Justice Ethics - see 

http://www.paulsjusticepage.com/cjethics.htm 

Resources for a just peace http://www.stopviolence.com 

Dr Paul S. Leighton 
Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology 
712 Pray Harrold, Eastern Michigan University 
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 

734/487-0012

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

The American Sociological Review seeks manuscripts from members of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. ASR’s mission is to publish the best contemporary scholarship from all areas of sociology. Without a strong volume of submissions from scholars studying peace, war, and social conflict, this goal is seriously compromised. We thus invite members of the Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict to submit their work for possible publication in ASR.

The ASR’s Deputy Editors and the members of the journal’s Editorial Board for 2001 are listed on the enclosed page. Together they comprise the largest and most intellectually diverse editorial team in ASR’s history. The editorial team joins the Editors in welcoming a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches and contributions from all substantive areas of the discipline. Also, ASR’s current editorial policies are highly flexible as to form and can accommodate manuscripts of various lengths and styles. (Full information about manuscript requirements is available in the February and August 2000 issues of the journal, at the ASR website (www.pop.psu.edu/ASR/asr.htm), or upon request to asr@ssc.wisc.edu.)

As a result of these editorial changes, we hope to publish more than our fair share of the best contemporary work on peace, war, and social conflict. We therefore strongly encourage Section members to submit their manuscripts to the American Sociological Review.

Charles Camic and Franklin Wilson, Editors
 
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Duquesne University's Department of Sociology invites applications for a one-year replacement appointment, as a visiting assistant professor, to begin in August 2001, with the possibility of renewal. We are seeking candidates with expertise in conflict resolution and peace studies, to teach three graduate courses in the Center for Social and Public Policy and three undergraduate courses in the Department of Sociology, during the 2001/2002 academic year. Graduate courses will be on nonviolence, theories of conflict, community organizing and social movements, and possibly conflict management techniques. Undergraduate courses may include Introduction to Peace and Justice and Survey of Sociology. We seek candidates with a Ph.D. or who are ABD in Sociology, Conflict Resolution, or related fields. Applicants should send a cover letter describing their teaching interests, a curriculum vitae, and have three letters of reference sent to: Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282. Application review will begin on April 30 and continue until the position is filled. Duquesne University is an Equal Opportunity employer. For more information, see our home page at http://www.duq.edu.

NEWSLETTER EDITOR NEEDED FOR PWSC

I will be resigning as newsletter editor effective August 21, 2001. Anyone interested in taking over the position should contact Gordon Fellman at fellman@brandeis.edu. 

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Join the PEACE, WAR, & SOCIAL CONFLICT Section of the American Sociological Association

For more information, contact: War, & Social Conflict section.

Gordon Fellman, Chair, fellman@brandeis.edu
  --or--
Jack Nusan Porter, Membership Chair, jacknusan@aol.com