Funded Projects: Library and Information Services

ACCESS, A SECURITY INFORMATION SERVICE, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Mary E. Lord): A grant to produce a new edition of a 1985 study in grantmaking in international security and peace, Search for Security. The revised edition includes a list and profile of foundations active in the peace, security, and international relations fields, and an analysis of patterns in philanthropy. (USIP-565) $58,250

ACCESS: A SECURITY INFORMATION SERVICE, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Mary E. Lord): A grant in support of a feasibility study on the establishment of a clearinghouse providing systematic bibliographic control of reports, occasional papers, conference proceedings, substantive newsletters and other literature in the area of peace, security and international relations which escapes the usual bibliographic control systems. (USIP-154-90F) $25,200

ACCESS-FUND FOR PEACE, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Mary E. Lord): A project to produce a reference guide to ethnic conflicts in Europe, focusing particularly on the conflicts in Yugoslavia and the former Soviet Union. The guide will provide a desktop reference for policy analysts, journalists, academics, librarians, students and others interested in this topic. (USIP-132-92F) $30,000

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Abdul Aziz Said): A grant to develop a multicourse Peace and Conflict Resolution concentration, curriculum, and library in the Washington Semester undergraduate study and internship program. (USIP-040) $34,380

ASSOCIATION FOR DIPLOMATIC STUDIES AND TRAINING, Arlington, VA (Project Director(s): Charles S. Kennedy and Richard Parker): A grant to establish a diplomatic oral history program at Georgetown University, based on oral interviews with retired senior foreign service officers. (USIP-525) $37,500

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES, Los Angeles, CA (Project Director(s): Richard D. Burns): A grant to create a comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography which will permit researchers to locate basic literature on contemporary and historical events dealing with arms control and disarmament issues. (USIP-20-90F) $14,220

CEDAR RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY, Cedar Rapids, IA (Project Director(s): Janet Rater): A five-part reading and discussion series on "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Seeking a Common Ground," organized by Cedar Rapids Public Library. In addition to reading assigned books, the public will hear presentations by scholars. A guide and brochure to the series will be produced. (SG-15-94) $9,707

CENTER FOR PEDAGOGICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH · BALTIC INSIGHT, Riga, Latvia (Project Director(s): Boris Koltchanov): A project to develop an on-line database on minority rights for use by non-governmental organizations, governmental agencies, journalists, academics, and other individual practitioners in Central and Eastern Europe. The database will provide a broad range of information, including international norms and instruments in the minority rights field, reports on minority rights and practices, and national legislation pertaining to minority issues of the Central and Eastern European states. (USIP-092-99F) $25,000

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (Project Director(s): Stephanie Neuman): A grant to create a computerized databank on Third World military arms production. This databank will be a continuously updated research tool containing information from publicly available sources on all levels of arms production and its impact on the civilian sectors of Third World countries. (USIP-217) $50,000

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, NY (Project Director(s): Kent McKeever): The project will convert the remaining paper card catalog records of the International Law Collection of the Columbia University Law School Library into computer usable electronic records and add the records to the two main national library computer networks, OCLC and RLIN. This would facilitate access to this information by scholars throughout the country and aid in supplying them with the information through Inter-library Loan. (USIP-022-2-90) $20,000

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Bronx, NY (Project Director(s): Martin C. Fergus): A grant in support of the Peace and Justice Studies Program to enable the acquisition of books and audio-visual materials in international affairs and related fields which pertain to the Program. (USIP-302) $10,000

FOUR COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, Vestal, NY (Project Director(s): Diantha D. Schull): A two-year reading and discussion program to be held at New York State public libraries on, "Threats to Peace: Opportunities for the Future: The United States and the Post Cold War Era." The readings and discussion will be supplemented with brochures, an annotated reading and viewing resources guide, and a directory of scholars. (SG-75-94) $25,000

FRIENDS OF THE SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY, Salem, OR (Project Director(s): Carol E. Torrens): A reading and discussion series for the public led by scholars on American peace movements, theories of peace, violence, and warfare. A bibliography of peace materials will be developed for use during the series. (SG-100-94) $9,900

FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY (Project Director(s): Richard Zorza): A project to develop an interactive Internet-based multilingual resource for the dissemination of statistics and other information about complaints of human rights violations in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. (USIP-071-98S) $38,000

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Michael Hudson and Jon Anderson): A project to explore how the Internet can advance democratization and help diminish conflict in the Middle East based on an examination of the social characteristics and network experiences of early adopters and advocates of the Internet in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. (SG-34-99) $40,000

HOWARD COUNTY LIBRARY, Columbia, MD (Project Director(s): Patricia L. Bates): A consortia of three county libraries--Howard County, Prince George's County and Pratt libraries--will bring reading and discussion programs to sixteen libraries in Maryland. Topics include: Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping; the United States and the United Nations in the Post Cold War; and the Ethics of Intervention. (SG-104-94) $25,000

HOWARD COUNTY LIBRARY, Columbia, MD (Project Director(s): Patricia Bates): The Maryland Center for the Book will bring reading and discussion programs to sixteen libraries and senior sites in Maryland, northern Virginia, the District of Columbia and southeastern Pennsylvania. Topics include: The New Sources of Conflict in the International Arena and the Mission of Governmental and Nongovernmental Institutions in Peacekeeping; Conflict Management in the Post-Cold War; and Consolidating the Peace: New Challenges and Dilemmas. (USIP-023-97F) $45,000

INDEPENDENT SOCIETY, HUMAN RIGHTS IN GEORGIA, THE, Tbilisi, Georgia (Project Director(s): Ucha Nanuashvili): A project to provide training and technical assistance to indigenous NGOs in the peacemaking field in the conflict-ridden Caucasus. A major activity will be the development of library resources on conflict prevention, conflict resolution and confidence building. (USIP-093-00S) $28,000

INSTITUTE ON THE HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE, Jerusalem, Israel (Project Director(s): Israel W. Charny): A grant to enable the Institute to complete work on its computerized bibliographic database covering materials on the holocaust and genocide in all parts of the world. Materials included were published between 1980 and 1990. Once completed the database will contain over 10,000 entries. (USIP-036-92S) $9,050

INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY, New York, NY (Project Director(s): Ambassador Olara A. Otunnu): A grant to develop a comprehensive collection of peacekeeping resources accessible to researchers and practitioners. The project will initially produce an on-line catalogue of the Peace Academy's current collection of some 3,500 volumes and documents. (USIP-060-2-90) $25,000

IOWA PEACE INSTITUTE, Grinnell, IA (Project Director(s): John W. McDonald): A grant to support development of a library and media resources center through the acquisition of books and videotapes on conflict management, global education, world trade and international development. (USIP-038-3-90) $20,000

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SAIS, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): I. William Zartman): A grant to permit a team of researchers to produce 1) a study on the basic theoretical mechanisms of negotiation; 2) a study on the operative effects and timing of leverage in negotiations; 3) a series of articles on the special problem of multilateral negotiations; and 4) a computerized guide to assist in the conduct and study of negotiations. (USIP-293) $50,000

LINEN HALL LIBRARY, Belfast, Northern Ireland (Project Director(s): John Gray): A project to create a multi-media CD-ROM database of politically related street posters and narrative information on the conflict in Northern Ireland, along with an illustrated book providing similar information. The electronic and print versions of the posters and narrative will be created for educational and research uses. (USIP-024-97S) $38,000

LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES, Leesburg, VA (Project Director(s): Linda Holtslander): A reading and discussion series on, "Peace and Security: Nuclear Age Concerns," will be led by leading scholars and practitioners in the field of arms control and deterrence. A bibliography will be provided and the discussion sessions videotaped for dissemination. (SG-70-94) $16,645

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA (Project Director(s): Lincoln P. Bloomfield & Allen Moulton): A grant to further develop an educational software program, the Computer-Aided System for Analysis of Local Conflicts (CASCON) designed to improve understanding of repetitious patterns in regional conflicts. (USIP-027-2-90) $40,000

MEDIA PEACE CENTRE, Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa (Project Director(s): Hannes Siebert): A pilot project to use video and supplementary media to help manage conflict in communities near Johannesburg, South Africa. The project uses video dialogue techniques and a locally developed newspaper to promote negotiation, joint problem-solving, and peacebuilding in urban neighborhoods once riven with political violence. (USIP-117-96F) $40,000

MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Monterey, CA (Project Director(s): William C. Potter): A grant to enable the Monterey Institute to promote within the states of the former Soviet Union the development of a nongovernmental community of nonproliferation specialists. Special emphasis will be given to assisting young professors from the various republics to develop course curricula on nonproliferation and arms control, and to build specialized libraries on nonproliferation, including computer databases. Through conferences and training programs at the Monterey Institute the project will also attempt to raise the salience of nuclear, missile, and chemical weapons proliferation for Soviet journalists and scholars. (USIP-070-91F) $34,280

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY, Fairfax, VA (Project Director(s): Robert Rudney): A one-year grant to complete a monograph on the structure of peace research in Western Europe. The study will examine the debates shaping the future role of peace research, the most critical issues it will confront over the next decade, and potential channels for influence on policymaking and public opinion. (USIP-374) $18,000

NATIONAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (NPA), Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Erland Heginbotham): A project to conduct a series of on-line dialogues via Internet between groups of American and Japanese experts and opinion leaders. The dialogues, which will be set in a conflict management framework, will address Asian policy issues that affect the vital interest of both countries. The project will include workshops for policy makers and opinion leaders and will result in a database of materials and published proceedings on each issue and an analysis of the process of cross-cultural policy dialogue using on-line communications. (USIP-156-95S) $35,000

NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL, Washington, DC (Project Director(s): Warren Strobel & Tiffany Danitz): A project to assess the use of the Internet as a means for organizing nonviolent civic resistance to human rights abuses and authoritarian rule in Burma. The research will investigate the extent of use of the Internet by civic activists within the country and abroad in organizing opposition to the regime, as well as the potential impact of these activities on efforts to democratize. (USIP-695) $10,743

OREGON PEACE INSTITUTE, Portland, OR (Project Director(s): Chris Boberg): A grant to support acquisition of simulations, books, and other materials dealing with conflict management and peace studies, for use at the secondary and collegiate levels. The project will also include training of personnel in the use of simulations in instructional settings. (USIP-169-90F) $30,000

PACE UNIVERSITY, White Plains, NY (Project Director(s): Benjamin B. Ferencz): A one-year grant in support of the Pace Peace Center's activities involving productions of articles, monographs, lectures, curricula. (USIP-619) $10,000

ROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, Billings, MT (Project Director(s): Donald G. Petterson): A grant to support development of a peace studies program through acquisition of basic library materials. These materials will be made available to institutions and citizens in the Institute's service region to enhance research and education opportunities. (USIP-055-3-90) $15,000

SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY & THE UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL, Salt Lake City, UT (Project Director(s): Alexandra Page): A four-part reading and discussion series will be held at eight public libraries throughout Utah. Participants will examine the role of the United States in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union as well as consider future directions for U.S. foreign policy. (SG-99-94) $24,947

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San Jose, CA (Project Director(s): Linda Main): A project to develop computer software to allow for networked access to information resources on international peace and conflict resolution. Three "mosaic" client software programs will be developed (one general, two on specific topics) that will automatically lead users to information resources on the Internet. Once located the program will give users information on the type of information, its availability, whether it is current, and in some instances allow for its retrieval. (USIP-156-94S) $30,000

SEQUIRDAD ESTRATEGICA REGIONAL EN EL 2000, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Project Director(s): Luis Eduardo Tibiletti): A project to develop an on-line data base on security and defense issues in the Southern Cone and to create a discussion/analysis forum to enhance communication among officials, scholars and other researchers in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. (SG-29-98) $35,000

SETON HILL COLLEGE, Greensburg, PA (Project Director(s): Sister Mary Noel Kernan): A grant to support publication of a booklet based on the Center's conference "Peace After Atrocity," including a bibliography of source materials for educational and broader public use. (USIP-504) $2,000

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA (Project Director(s): Charles G. Palm): A grant in support of the preparation and publication of a guide to the Peace Collection at the Hoover Institution Library. (USIP-518) $40,000

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA (Project Director(s): Charles G. Palm): A project to enhance bibliographic access to the Hoover Institution's collection of Polish independent press literature (1976-1990) and to preserve it for future use. The project will include the production of a complete bibliographic description of the collection, a comprehensive guide, and microfilm of the entire collection for purposes of preservation and accessibility. (USIP-024-93F) $50,000

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN, Madison, WI (Project Director(s): James P. Danky): A grant to survey, catalogue, and microfilm unprocessed collections relating to peace currently in the society's library. (USIP-062-2-90) $11,000

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Project Director(s): Zeev Maoz): A grant to support the development of a comprehensive database on the military, economic, political and social dimensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The project will produce a quantitative handbook on the conflict and a series of studies that explore such linkages as those between domestic political processes in Middle Eastern countries and regional and international dynamics. (USIP-106-96S) $44,100

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, La Jolla, CA (Project Director(s): Stephan Haggard): A project to develop and implement internet technologies to enhance regional collaboration among policy practitioners and scholars from the United States, Russia, China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea who are participating in the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue. (USIP-086-97S) $37,000

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Project Director(s): J. Whitman): A grant to support further development and dissemination of a wholly electronic scholarly journal and resource guide on the provision of humanitarian assistance. The journal, which is available on-line without a subscription, specializes in disseminating time-urgent materials as well as scholarly articles. (USIP-108-95F) $15,000

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, Cincinnati, OH (Project Director(s): Nicholas D. Finke): The development of a bibliographic database of human rights literature to be accessible to human rights researchers around the world via the Internet. This will be the most comprehensive and electronically accessible human rights database in existence. (USIP-153-94S) $30,000

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder, CO (Project Director(s): Paul Wehr): A grant to improve and expand the Peace Research Component of the International Exchange Program, which is a system for sharing computer-based information pertaining to peace research and conflict resolution. Bibliographic and other information from dissimilar computer systems will be collected from contributors worldwide and then distributed to interested persons and organizations. (USIP-170-91S) $16,200

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder, CO (Project Director(s): Paul Wehr, Guy Burgess, Heidi Burgess): A project to develop a distance learning program, available both through the mail and over the internet, on conflict resolution in intractable situations such as ethnic strife. Designed to use the latest communications technology, the project will develop interactive learning techniques in college-level courses to guide students through the principal approaches to, and methods for, conflict amelioration in protracted disputes. (USIP-049-96S) $35,000

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, Durham, England (Project Director(s): Gerald Blake): The International Boundaries Research Unit works to enhance the resources available for the peaceful resolution of conflict associated with international boundaries around the world. This project will make geographical, historical, legal, bibliographical and current affairs information on the world's land and maritime boundaries available to scholars and practitioners by establishing an online facility accessible via the Internet. The Unit will also continue to add material to its database and maintain and coordinate an "International Boundaries" electronic mailing discussion forum. (USIP-098-95S) $33,000

UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (LECIA), Legon, Accra Ghana(Project Director(s): Baffour Agyeman-Duah): A project to support peacemaking in West Africa through the development of an on-line database of conflicts in West Africa and the further development of the Centre's library holdings relating to peacemaking. (USIP-028-95F) $30,000

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN (Project Director(s): David Weissbrodt & Kristi Rudelius-Palmer): A grant to establish an Internet Web site focusing on international peace and human rights. The Web site will make available the most comprehensive collection of treaties, documents, decisions, reports, resource guides and other educational materials from the United Nations, regional intergovernmental bodies, nongovernmental organizations and other agencies. The Web site will also provide links to hundreds of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations dedicated to advancing international peace and promoting human rights. (USIP-069-96S) $36,000

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Pittsburgh, PA (Project Director(s): Wolfgang F. Schlor): A project to develop a thesaurus of standard vocabulary in the field of peace and security studies that would aid the meta-searching of resources (electronically and otherwise) maintained by different security studies organizations, such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. (USIP-141-01S) $28,000

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, Knoxville, TN (Project Director(s): L. Evans Roth): A grant to assess the feasibility of developing a regional information system in Central and Eastern Europe. The ultimate goal is a union catalogue that lists holdings of all libraries in the region; is the basis for cooperative programming, staffing, and acquisitions; and connects with many databases and other union catalogues. The purpose is to induce international cooperation, to alleviate library deficiencies in the region, link these nations to the remainder of the world, and enhance democratic and peace-promoting processes. (USIP-117-91F) $20,000

VOEM STICHTING, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Project Director(s): Drazen Pantic): A project to run the Internet activities of the pilot Radio B2-92 project, and in particular to prepare a joint multi-media Internet dialogue project with Koha ditore in Pristina and representatives of the Decani monastery from Decani. (SG-147-99) $11,800

WILTON PARK, West Sussex, 8N44 3D2 United Kingdom(Project Director(s): Chris Langdon): Support for an international conference on the advances in and implications of new communication technologies for the resolution of international conflicts. (SG-112-98) $32,000

YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT (Project Director(s): Tanja Lorkovic): A grant for the acquisition and processing of new materials from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union on democratization and peace. Materials to be collected include not only books but ephemera, such as pamphlets, irregular newspapers, broadsides, and posters documenting an historic period of political and social change. (USIP-110-90F) $25,000

YORK UNIVERSITY, Toronto, Canada (Project Director(s): Michael Dartnell): A cross-national study to examine how organizations and political movements use on-line technologies as an information provision tool in campaigns against governments. (USIP-064-98F) $30,118

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